Flappers
Women who rejected stereotypical gender roles by drinking and smoking and having short hair
Booker T. Washington
He argued that to achieve political equality, African Americans had to engage themselves in education and economic endavors
The AG tasked FBI Director Hoover to gather information on suspected communists and led to mass arrests and deportations
Wilson articulated his vision for the post-war world. Freedom of navigation, self-determination of nations, and a league of Nations (before the UN)
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.
Muckrakers
Investigative journalists who exposed the underbelly of corruption rampant in American.
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Believed in active government and he grew the government more than any president before him.
Hoovervilles
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.
Crisis in American values
Embraced the changing culture with respect to gender roles and scientific discoveries
Lived in urban areas
Progressivism
Roosevelt began enforcing the act more strictly and dismantled over 40 large companies (only bad trusts)
Challenged the practice of Japanese Internment, but SCOTUS ruled that it was a wartime necessity
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Germany resumed sinking passenger ships two years later
New deal
Public works administration: employed people to work on infrastructure projects
Tennessee Valley Authority: Hired people to control power plants and control flooding
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
A new and more efficient way to manufacture products like cars
President McKinley was assassinated and Teddy Roosevelt became president
Pure food and drug act
Ensured Americans were eating safe and uncontaminated food
18th amendment passed
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
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
Prohibited anyone from making negative comments about the government
N.A.A.C.P
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.
W.E.B. Dubois
Harlem Renaissance
Gave citizens the right to vote for their senators. Progressives argued this helped take senators out of the pockets of millionaires and big business
Mass culture
Secret ballot
Helped make voting more fair by giving voters privacy and preventing party bosses from pressuring people into voting for them
