Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
fourteen points
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Secret ballot
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
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.
Ida Tarbell
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Spanish-American War
Crisis in American values
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.
Sinking of the Lusitania
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Red Scare
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
