APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

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

Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

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.

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

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Harlem Renaissance

Lend-Lease Act

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

N.A.A.C.P

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

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.

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

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

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs

W.E.B. Dubois

Square deal

A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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

Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

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

Great depression

Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

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

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

Pure food and drug act

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

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

Zimmermann telegram

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

Red Scare

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

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

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.

Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

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

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

1920's economic boom

Harlem Renaissance

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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.

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

Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Sedition act of 1918

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

The great migration

Progressive's concerns

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

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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