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.
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Big stick diplomacy
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
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
1920's economic boom
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
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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.
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Assembly line
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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
Crisis in American values
Progressive's concerns
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
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
Flappers
Pure food and drug act
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Red Scare
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
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
