Period 7 Flashcards
Jane Addams
- Hull House Founder (settlement house)
- spent her lifetime battling for garbage removal, playgrounds, better street lighting, and police protection.
- immigration
Progressive Era
Suffrage, Civil rights, Conservation, Safety, Political reforms
Imperialist Era
Industrialized countries sought control of other countries for raw materials and new markets
Big Stick Policy
Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy
-using military force for imperialism
Antiquities Act of 1906
- More National Parks
- Allows president to set aside “objects of historic and scientific interest” as national monuments
Pure Food and Drug Act
- Can’t manufacture or sell mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs
- FDA
NAACP (National Association for the Advancment of Colored People) 1908
Civil rights group
“Moral Diplomacy”
President Wilson’s foreign policy
- condemed imperialism
- spread democracy
- containment
Triangle Fire 1911
A fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
- Workers were locked in and could not escape the fire
Ludlow Massacre 1914
An attack on stiking coal miners by the National Guard that resulted in up to 25 deaths.
Child Labor Act 1916
- limited the working hours of children and forbade the interstate sale of goods produced by child labor
- later ruled unconstitutional
World War I
- Nationalism- Ethnic groups want their own nations
- Allies: Germany+Austria Hungary+Ottoman Empire, Russia+France+Britain+Serbia
- Ends with League of Nations and Treaty of Versailles
Assembly Line
- Created by Henry Ford
- increased car output
Red Summer
Summer of 1919- Race riots
Immigration Quota Act of 1924
-Slashes immigration from non-WASP countries
Palmer Raids
- government actions against suspected radicals, anarchists, and communists
- Targeted “radicals” and immigrants
Red Scare #1
- Fear of communism, hysteria
- Emma Goldman. An outspoken radical who was deported after being arrested on charges of being an anarchist, socialist, or labour agitator.
Great Migration
the migration of millions of African Americans from the South to the North and West
19th Ammendment 1920
Gave women the right to vote
Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Influential jazz musicians
Temperance/Prohibtion
Ban of alchohol
-women against domestic violence
Harlem Renaissance
A cultural explosion of African Americans music, art and literature
Scopes Monkey Trial
A substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school.
Great Depression 1929-1941ish
- Massive wealth inequalities
- credit overextends, banks fail
- Stock Market crash Oct. 1929