APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

New deal

1920's politics

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

Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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

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

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

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

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 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

American imperialism 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

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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

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

Hoovervilles

Red Scare

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

W.E.B. Dubois

When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

Pure food and drug act

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

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.

Direct election of senators

New deal

Progressivism

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

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

On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs

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

Scopes Monkey trial

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

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