Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
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.
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
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Crisis in American values
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Spanish-American War
Progressive's concerns
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
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
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
Sinking of the Lusitania
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Espionage Act of 1917
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.
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
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
18th amendment passed
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
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
Big stick diplomacy
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Hoovervilles
