Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Square deal
Palmer raids
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
1920's economic boom
Mass culture
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
Secret ballot
Upton Sinclair
Big stick diplomacy
Booker T. Washington
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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.
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
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Muckrakers
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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.
Sedition act of 1918
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.
