Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Square deal
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
1920's politics
Spanish-American War
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
N.A.A.C.P
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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)
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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
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
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Boost!
Boost!
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)
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Crisis in American values
Increased nativism
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
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Cash and Carry
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Square deal
The great migration
Philippines
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Frozen!
Frozen!
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
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
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Zimmermann telegram
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them