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
Increased nativism
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
1920's politics
18th amendment passed
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Spanish-American War
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
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
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Sedition act of 1918
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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.
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
Zimmermann telegram
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
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
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.
Progressive's concerns
