APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

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

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

Progressive's concerns

Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Red Scare

Espionage Act of 1917

Immigration Quotas

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Spanish-American War

Cash and Carry

Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

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

Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

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)

Philippines

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.

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

Direct election of senators Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

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.

Philippines Teddy Roosevelt sent an American fleet to attack the Spanish colony. They staged a ground invasion in collaboration with Filipino nationalists and overthrew the Spanish, before buying it from them

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

Assembly line

Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

Ida Tarbell

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Mass culture

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs

Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

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.

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

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