Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
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
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.
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Upton Sinclair
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Cash and Carry
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
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivism
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
American imperialism
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
