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
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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
New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
W.E.B. Dubois
Progressivism
Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
The great migration Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
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
American imperialism
Unrestricted submarine warfare
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
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When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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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.
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
Secret ballot
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Great depression
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Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Hoovervilles
Crisis in American values Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas
New deal Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Progressive's concerns
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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.
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
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
Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
The great migration Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
American imperialism
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Harlem Renaissance
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)
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
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Red Scare
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