FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
PhilippinesTeddy 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
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Pure food and drug act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Big stick diplomacy
Upton Sinclair
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
N.A.A.C.P
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
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.
Mass cultureThe 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
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Direct election of senators
Secret ballot
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Progressivism
Palmer raids
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Immigration Quotas
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Spanish-American War
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Direct election of senators
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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.
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
1920's politics
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Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Lend-Lease Act
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
Red Scare
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.
Jacob Riis
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Frozen!
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.