Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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
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.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Harlem Renaissance
Red Scare
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Scopes Monkey trial
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.
Great depression
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
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Crisis in American values
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.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
1920's economic boom
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
1920's politics
Booker T. Washington
fourteen points
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
