APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Espionage Act of 1917

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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

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

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

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

Zimmermann telegram

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

Upton Sinclair

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

Cash and Carry

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

Assembly line

Muckrakers

Harlem Renaissance

N.A.A.C.P

18th amendment passed

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)

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

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

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

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

Direct election of senators

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

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

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

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

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

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.

Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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

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

Sinking of the Lusitania

Mass culture

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

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

Espionage Act of 1917

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

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

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

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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

1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

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

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

Red Scare

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

Hoovervilles

Crisis in American values

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

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