Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
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
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Lend-Lease Act
1920's politics
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Direct election of senators
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
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.
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Square deal
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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.
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.
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.
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
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
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
