APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Secret ballot

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.

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

Square deal

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Meat inspection act

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

New deal

Progressive's concerns

Niagra movement Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

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

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

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

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

1920's politics

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.

Ida Tarbell

Cash and Carry

Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

Harlem Renaissance

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Zimmermann telegram

Sedition act of 1918

An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.

Spanish-American War

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act

When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Jacob Riis

Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism

Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

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

Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board

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.

Progressive's concerns

Hoovervilles

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