Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Boost!
Boost!
Progressivism
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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Frozen!
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
PhilippinesTeddy 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
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Zimmermann telegram
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Square dealWhen coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
18th amendment passed
New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Secret ballotHelped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Spanish-American War
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Flappers
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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Boost!
Mass cultureThe 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
Ida Tarbell
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
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A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Boost!
Boost!
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Booker T. Washington
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
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Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilegeOn his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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.
1920's politics
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Philippines
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Lend-Lease Act
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination