Direct election of senators
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Sedition act of 1918
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.
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.
Palmer raids
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Big stick diplomacy
Espionage Act of 1917
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
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.
Progressive's concerns
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Cash and Carry
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Niagra movement
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
Square deal
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
