Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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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.
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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.
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
Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
N.A.A.C.P
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Secret ballot
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
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Jacob Riis A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Sedition act of 1918
Square deal
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
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
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Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Hoovervilles
Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
The great migration
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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.
Upton Sinclair
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
Immigration Quotas Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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
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
Spanish-American War
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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
Espionage Act of 1917
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
Red Scare
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.
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
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
American imperialism Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Booker T. Washington He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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