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
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Increased nativism
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
1920's politics
18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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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
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Spanish-American War
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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.
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
Zimmermann telegram
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
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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.
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Progressive's concerns
Crisis in American values
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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
New deal
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.
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
The great migration
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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.
Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Immigration Quotas
American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
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Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Ida Tarbell
Mass culture
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.
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.
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