Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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Boost!
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas
Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Frozen!
Frozen!
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
N.A.A.C.P
18th amendment passed
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
1920's politics
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Progressive's concerns
Spanish-American War
fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Jacob Riis
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
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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
Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
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.
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.
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.
Boost!
Boost!
Square deal
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Progressive's concerns
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
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Progressivism
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
Espionage Act of 1917
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Frozen!
Frozen!
Scopes Monkey trial
Booker T. Washington
fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
N.A.A.C.P
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
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Sedition act of 1918
Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Direct election of senators
Frozen!
Frozen!
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Big stick diplomacy
Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Niagra movement
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