APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

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

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

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

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Great depression The 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 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

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

N.A.A.C.P

fourteen points Wilson 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 culture 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

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Crisis in American values Embraced 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 line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

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

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Immigration Quotas

Spanish-American War

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

Direct election of senators

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

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

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

Booker T. Washington He 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 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

American imperialism Ideas 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 privilege On 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 warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

18th amendment passed Banned 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

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

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

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

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

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

Niagra movement

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