Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Jacob Riis
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Progressivism
Korematsu vs. U.S.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Assembly line
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Spanish-American War
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)
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
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
American imperialism
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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
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
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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.
Niagra movement
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
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
