Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Cash and Carry
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
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.
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
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.
1920's politics
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
fourteen points
Immigration Quotas
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
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
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
