APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

N.A.A.C.P

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

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)

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

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

Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

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

Korematsu vs. U.S.

1920's politics

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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

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

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

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

Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Spanish-American War

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

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

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

The great migration

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

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

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

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

Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

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

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

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

Secret ballot

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.

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

Red Scare

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

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

A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

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

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

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

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

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

Sinking of the Lusitania

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

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

Direct election of senators Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

Spanish-American War

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.

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

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Ida Tarbell

Mass culture

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

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