A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Hoovervilles
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
American imperialism
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
N.A.A.C.P
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
The great migration
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
Muckrakers
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
18th amendment passed
Big stick diplomacy
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
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
Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.
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
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
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)
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
