Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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.
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)
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
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.
Great depression
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.
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Progressive's concerns
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Increased nativism
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
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
