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
1920's politics
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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
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
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Zimmermann telegram
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.
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Booker T. Washington
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Jacob Riis
Immigration Quotas
Spanish-American War
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Mass culture
Scopes Monkey trial
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
