Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Flappers
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
fourteen points
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
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
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Direct election of senators
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Ida Tarbell
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
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
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
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.
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
