The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
PhilippinesTeddy 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
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
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
Frozen!
Frozen!
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
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
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Booker T. WashingtonHe argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
Lend-Lease ActAllowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Crisis in American valuesEmbraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Hoovervilles
Red Scare
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Boost!
Boost!
W.E.B. Dubois
When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation
Pure food and drug act
MuckrakersInvestigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Teddy Roosevelt progressivismBelieved the president should set the legislative agenda for Congress. He led congress to pass a series of laws on consumer protection and enviornmental conservation
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Frozen!
Frozen!
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
American imperialismIdeas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
fourteen points
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
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.
Direct election of senators
New deal
Progressivism
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Ida TarbellPublished a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Assembly lineA new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Frozen!
Frozen!
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Niagra movementLed by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans
Scopes Monkey trial
N.A.A.C.PSought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)