Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
N.A.A.C.P
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Spanish-American War
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
fourteen points
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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.
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.
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1920's economic boom
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Red Scare
