PhilippinesTeddy 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
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Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Booker T. Washington
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Crisis in American values
Square deal
Increased nativism
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Jacob Riis
Sinking of the Lusitania
Spanish-American War
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
18th amendment passed
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Big stick diplomacy
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
American imperialism
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Frozen!
Frozen!
Boost!
Boost!
Philippines
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Progressivism
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Ida Tarbell
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Booker T. Washington
Spanish-American War
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Harlem Renaissance
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Assembly line
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.
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
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.