APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

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

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

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

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act

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

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Sedition act of 1918

fourteen points

Scopes Monkey trial

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

Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Philippines 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

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

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

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

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

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 standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

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

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

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

Direct election of senators Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

18th amendment passed

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

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.

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

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

Sinking of the Lusitania

Red Scare

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

Progressivism

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

Big stick diplomacy

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

The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Meat inspection act

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.

Palmer raids

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

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

Lend-Lease Act

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

Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

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

Flappers

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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.

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

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