APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

Assembly line

Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

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

1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Direct election of senators

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

Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans

Spanish-American War

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

N.A.A.C.P

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.

Mass culture

Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

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.

Philippines

Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

1920's politics

Harlem Renaissance

American imperialism

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902

Square deal

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

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

1920's politics 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

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

Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Great depression

New deal

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Pure food and drug act

W.E.B. Dubois

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.

Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

fourteen points

The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Korematsu vs. U.S.

Scopes Monkey trial

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors

The great migration

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

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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