President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president Progressivism Woodrow Wilson's Triple wall of privilege Palmer raids

A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts) Banned the sale of alcohol. They thought it would right the moral wrongs of society, but it had the opposite effect An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts

Teddy Roosevelt progressivism Sedition act of 1918 Pure food and drug act Booker T. Washington

Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American. Led by W.E.B. Dubois who organized a group of black intellectuals who met and organized to secure rights for African americans When coal miners began to strike, Roosevelt stepped in to negotiate what he called a 'square deal' for both the workers and the corperation

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 Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants 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