Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
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
Meat inspection act
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Harlem Renaissance
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.
The great migration
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Zimmermann telegram
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.
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
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
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Progressive's concerns
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
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
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Hoovervilles
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.
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Increased nativism
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Sinking of the Lusitania
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
