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.
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
Spanish-American War
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Hoovervilles
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Palmer raids
Progressive's concerns
W.E.B. Dubois
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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
Flappers
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)
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
Harlem Renaissance
Immigration Quotas
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
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
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Zimmermann telegram
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.
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
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
Ida Tarbell
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Upton Sinclair
Wrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
