Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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.
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Great depression
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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.
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
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Niagra movement
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
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
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
