Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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
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
Espionage Act of 1917
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
W.E.B. Dubois
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
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
Scopes Monkey trial
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Mass culture
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Spanish-American War
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Lend-Lease Act
Assembly line
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
