Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Ida Tarbell
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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.
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.
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
1920's politics
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
Niagra movement
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Spanish-American War
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
fourteen points
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
