APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

1920's politics

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

Immigration Quotas

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Progressive's concerns

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

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

Direct election of senators

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

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

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

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

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

The great migration Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination

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

Flappers

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

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

Cash and Carry

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

Assembly line

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

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

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

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.

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

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 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

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

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

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Muckrakers

Progressivism

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

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.

Square deal

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)

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

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

Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Increased nativism

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

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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.

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

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

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

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

End this game?