APSUH Unit 7 (1898-1945) duel

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

Flappers

Palmer raids The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations

Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding

Niagra movement

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

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

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

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.

Espionage Act of 1917

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

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

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

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

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

Wilson created many wartime agencies to coordinate the war. They encouraged Americans to ration resources and food, took control of railroads, and revitalized industries, causing more urban migration.

Lend-Lease Act

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

Progressivism

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Over 1.5 million African Americans moved north in search of economic opportunities created by the war effort and an escape from southern discrimination

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

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.

Sedition act of 1918

Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)

Mass culture

18th amendment passed Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect

Korematsu vs. U.S. Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

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Spanish-American War

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

Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity

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

Ida Tarbell

The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.

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

American imperialism

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

Assembly line

New deal

Unrestricted submarine warfare Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later

Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)

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

Increased nativism Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas

Hoovervilles People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening

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

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

Meat inspection act

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

Espionage Act of 1917

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

Secret ballot Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.

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.

Progressivism

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.

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

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