Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Ida Tarbell
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Progressive's concerns
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
1920's economic boom
W.E.B. Dubois
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Red Scare
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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.
Immigration Quotas
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Mass culture
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
Direct election of senators
fourteen points
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Spanish-American War
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
