Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Red Scare
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Sinking of the Lusitania
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.
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Progressivism
1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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Zimmermann telegram
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Harlem Renaissance
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American imperialism
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
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Jacob Riis
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Niagra movement
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Great depression
Progressive's concerns
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
American imperialism
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Square deal
Direct election of senators
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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 AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Mass culture
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
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W.E.B. Dubois
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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Immigration Quotas
Harlem Renaissance
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Spanish-American War
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination