New dealPublic works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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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
Scopes Monkey trialIn 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.
1920's economic boomThe standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Red ScareAnti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Square dealWhen coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Sedition act of 1918Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Zimmermann telegramGermany 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.
Progressive's concernsRising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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Upton Sinclair
Espionage Act of 1917
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Crisis in American values
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Cash and Carry
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
ProgressivismThe idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Big stick diplomacy
1920's politicsA Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
W.E.B. Dubois
Jacob RiisA photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Franklin D. Roosevelt electedBelieved in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
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Mass cultureThe 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
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Scopes Monkey trial
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Ida Tarbell
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
The great migrationOver 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
New deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Spanish-American War
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
1920's economic boom
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MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Lend-Lease Act
Progressive's concerns
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
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Booker T. Washington
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
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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FlappersWomen who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations