Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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.
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
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
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.
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Great depression
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.
Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Progressive's concerns
N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Increased nativism
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
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
Philippines
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Palmer raids
Spanish-American War
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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New deal
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
The great migration
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
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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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
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
18th amendment passed
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
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Secret ballot
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
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.
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W.E.B. Dubois
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