The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Rising power of big businesses
Uncertainties in the economy
Violence between labor groups and employers
Influence of political machines
Jim Crow segregation
Rights of women
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
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.
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
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
Lend-Lease Act
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
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Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
Big stick diplomacy
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Booker T. Washington
Spanish-American War
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Direct election of senators
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
