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
Muckrakers
Niagra movement
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
W.E.B. Dubois
Progressivism
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
American imperialism
Unrestricted submarine warfare
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.
Ida Tarbell
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
fourteen points
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.
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
Secret ballot
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
