Great depression
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Progressive's concerns
Spanish-American War
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
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
W.E.B. Dubois
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
1920's economic boom
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
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
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Increased nativism
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Sedition act of 1918
Ida Tarbell
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
