Sedition act of 1918
New deal
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
Mass culture
The 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
Limited the number of eastern European and Asian immigrants
The stock market collapsed on black Tuesday. People borrowed money to invest in the stock market. Everyone lost their money.
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.
Korematsu vs. U.S.
fourteen points
Direct election of senators
Flappers
Secret ballot
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
People who lost their homes had to live in shanty towns. The name mocked President Hoover for not intervening
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.
Scopes Monkey trial
A Republican president was elected. He promised to reduce the government's involvement in people's lives and return to normalcy.
Assembly line
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
American imperialism
Ideas about expansion and manifest destiny were engrained into the American identity. America purchased Alaska in 1867.
Harlem Renaissance
Black artists and performers developed a distinct art that grew out of the black experience
Progressivism
The idea that the problems within American society could only be fixed through vigorous government intervention.
Sinking of the Lusitania
A German U-Boat sank a passenger ship with 128 Americans on board
Jacob Riis
A photojournalist who published a book called 'How the Other Half Lives' which showed the horrifying conditions of the people living in urban tenements
An aggressive foreign policy that got the U.S. involved in many foreign conflicts
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
Ida Tarbell
Allowed Britain to 'borrow' the weapons they needed
