The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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
1920's economic boom
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Assembly line
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
Booker T. Washington
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Immigration Quotas
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)
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.
Ida Tarbell
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Palmer raids
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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.
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Pure food and drug act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Jacob Riis
