APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

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.

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

Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

Upton Sinclair

Espionage Act of 1917

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

Crisis in American values

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

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

Cash and Carry

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

Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Big stick diplomacy

1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

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

W.E.B. Dubois

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

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

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

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

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

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

Scopes Monkey trial

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

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

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

Ida Tarbell

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

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

New deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected

Spanish-American War

A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

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.

1920's economic boom

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

Cash and Carry 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

Lend-Lease Act

Progressive's concerns

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

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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

Booker T. Washington

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

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.

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

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

End this game?