Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Espionage Act of 1917
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
1920's economic boom
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Cash and Carry
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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.
Meat inspection act
Mass culture
Crisis in American values
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
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
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
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
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
