APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

Immigration Quotas

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

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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

Crisis in American values

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Sedition act of 1918

Square deal

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

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

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

Direct election of senators

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

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.

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.

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

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.

Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

fourteen points

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

Ida Tarbell

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Spanish-American War

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

Pure food and drug act

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

Spanish-American War

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Flappers

Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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.

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

Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

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

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

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

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

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

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

N.A.A.C.P

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

Mass culture

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

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

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

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

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

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

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

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

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

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.

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