Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Espionage Act of 1917
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
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
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
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
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.
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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.
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Zimmermann telegram
