A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
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Philippines
Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Mass cultureThe 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
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Spanish-American War
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Scopes Monkey trial
New deal
Great depressionThe stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
Increased nativismIncreased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
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
American imperialism
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Immigration QuotasLimited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
Upton Sinclair
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
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust ActRoosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Korematsu vs. U.S.Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Espionage Act of 1917
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
18th amendment passedBanned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
Direct election of senatorsGave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Sinking of the LusitaniaA German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
1920's economic boom
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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
Meat inspection actSet standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
On his first day in office, WW addressed Congress on the need to provide relief to Americans by lowering tariffs
Increased nativism
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Progressivism
Published a devastating investigation of standard oil in 1902
W.E.B. DuboisArgued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
American imperialism
Direct election of senators
Unrestricted submarine warfareGermany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Upton SinclairWrote the book 'The Jungle' to expose the dangerous conditions of factory workers and the unsanitary meat packers
HoovervillesPeople who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
Espionage Act of 1917Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Red ScareAnti-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.
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Palmer raidsThe AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
fourteen pointsWilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
Harlem RenaissanceBlack artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect
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Big stick diplomacyAn aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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.
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
Cash and CarryRoosevelt 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
Pure food and drug actEnsured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
Mass cultureThe 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
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)