APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

Jacob Riis

New deal

Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries Lived in urban areas

Direct election of senators Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business

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

Immigration Quotas

Progressive's concerns

Meat inspection act Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Flappers Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

Ida Tarbell

fourteen points Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)

Pure food and drug act Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food

Espionage Act of 1917 Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison

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.

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

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.

Korematsu vs. U.S.

Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

Philippines

Sedition act of 1918 Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Spanish-American War

Big stick diplomacy An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism 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

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.

Red Scare Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia

Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government

Muckrakers Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.

Hoovervilles

Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Assembly line A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars

A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements

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

Harlem Renaissance Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience

N.A.A.C.P Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Progressivism The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.

Espionage Act of 1917

Meat inspection act

President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president

Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.

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.

Booker T. Washington

Square deal When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair

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

fourteen points

A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.

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

Lend-Lease Act Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed

1920's economic boom

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