APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

Mass culture

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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

American imperialism

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

Spanish-American War

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

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.

W.E.B. Dubois

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

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.

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

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

Progressive's concerns 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

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

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

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

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

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism Believed the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation

Harlem Renaissance

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

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

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

Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

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

The great migration

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

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

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

Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

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

A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

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

Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants

Progressive's concerns

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

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

1920's economic boom

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.

Zimmermann telegram

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)

Harlem Renaissance

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

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

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

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

Flappers

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

Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

Espionage Act of 1917

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

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