Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Flappers
Secret ballot
Philippines
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Muckrakers
Red Scare
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Zimmermann telegram
Germany solicited Mexico to become an ally of theirs, and in return they would help Mexico regain the land that they had lost in the Mexican-American war.
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Meat inspection act
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Upton Sinclair
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
The great migration
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Scopes Monkey trial
In Tennessee it was illegal to teach Darwin's theory of evolution to children. A teacher was arrested for teaching it to his class. In the end, the conviction was thrown out on a technicality.
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Roosevelt persuaded Congress to pass a looser version of the neutrality act that allowed anyone to purchase arms from the U.S. as long as they paid in cash and used their own ships to transport it
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
fourteen points
Mass culture
The growing popularity of technologies like movies and the radio meant that everyone was listening to the same things, which helped create a more unified culture and distinct identity
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
