Scopes Monkey trial
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Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Booker T. Washington
Direct election of senators
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
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
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.
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1920's politics A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
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
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
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
Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Jacob Riis
Spanish-American War
Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Mass culture 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
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Niagra movement Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Progressivism
fourteen points
1920's economic boom The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Palmer raids
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Upton Sinclair Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
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Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Sinking of the Lusitania A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
1920's economic boom
Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
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.
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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)
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.
N.A.A.C.P
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
Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Great depression The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
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
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
Ida Tarbell Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Harlem Renaissance
Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
The great migration
Assembly line
Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Square deal
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Immigration Quotas
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