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
Flappers
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
1920's economic boom
The great migration
Meat inspection act
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
N.A.A.C.P
fourteen points
Great depression
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
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.
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Lend-Lease Act
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
18th amendment passed
Crisis in American values
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
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
