Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Booker T. Washington
The great migration
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Meat inspection act
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Crisis in American values
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Ida Tarbell
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Sinking of the Lusitania
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.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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