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
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
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
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
1920's politics
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)
Harlem Renaissance
Crisis in American values
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Booker T. Washington
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
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
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
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
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Progressivism
Spanish-American War
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.
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
