An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
Palmer raids
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Red Scare
Anti-german sentiment shifted to anti-communist sentiment as people feared communist infiltration from Russia
1920's politics
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Espionage Act of 1917
Anyone who tried to incite rebellion or obstruct the draft would go to prison
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
1920's economic boom
The standard of living for most Americans increased during the 1920s.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
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.
Argued that for african americans to have any shot at economic equality, they needed to be recognized as politically equal first.
Scopes Monkey trial
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
Meat inspection act
Set standards of sanitation for meat packing plants
N.A.A.C.P
Sought to abolish all forms of segregation and expand educational opportunities for black children (and others)
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Great depression
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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
Sedition act of 1918
The great migration
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
Immigration Quotas
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
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
fourteen points
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-trust Act
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
Increased nativism
Increased immigration from eastern Europe after the war created another wave of nativism. Led to the passage of the immigration quotas
