Identified problems - elections - efficiency - labors - trusts

Worked to stop child labor - prohibited in Illinois - welfare to: women, children, consumers

TR's plan for reform - equal opportunity to succeed - breaking up trusts - fair chance of labor - protect the environment

1917 - Zimmerman telegraph - ships sunk by u-boats

Period 7 1890-1945 Flashcards by Erik Hillman

U.s.s. Maine

Blown up in Havana, Cuba

-started SPANISH AMERICAN WAR

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Filipino rebellion 1899-1902

Us troops vs the Filipinos

-us won

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Roosevelt corollary 1904

Extended the Monroe doctrine 1904

-us has the RIGHT to protect economic interests in south/ central America

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Patch villas raid 1916

Mexican revolutionary, killed many Americans

-never captured

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Progressive era 1901-1907

Social improvements
Political shifts (democracy)
Limited corporate power
More environment focus

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Social gospel

Churches addressed modern social and economic issues

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Muckrakers

Identified problems

elections
efficiency
labors
trusts

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Florence Kelly

Worked to stop child labor

prohibited in Illinois
welfare to: women, children, consumers

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Square deal

TR’s plan for reform

equal opportunity to succeed
breaking up trusts
fair chance of labor
protect the environment

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Northern securities company 1904

JP Morgan’s rr monopoly

-against anti trust act

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Pure food and drug act 1906

No sale of mislabeled food or drugs

-today–FDA

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Meat inspection act 1906

Inspected and set standards for meat processing

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Underwood tariff 1913

Gradual income tax on $3,000 +

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Federal reserve act 1913

Created central banking system

-12 regional banks with a board

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Clayton antitrust act 1914

Strengthened Sherman Ant-trust

no monopolies
monitored stuff
ok with unions

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Federal trade commissions 1914

Presidentially appointed position

investigates trusts
stop unfair practices

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Progressive amendments

A lot of them to help people in hard times

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Us enters ww1

1917

Zimmerman telegraph
ships sunk by u-boats

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Treaty of Versailles 1919

Ended ww1

Germany = fully responsible for war

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Fourteen points 1918

1-4: free trade, free seas, disarm
5: colonial population should have say in gov
6-13: people ruled by their own people
14: league of nations

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Espionage act 1917 and sedition act 1919

ESP- no information to help enemy
No opposition or criticizing

Sed- the teeth behind the ESP

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Schenck vs us 1919

Any action that represents a “clear and present danger” to the public of the government is not allowed

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Palmer raids 1919-1920

Raided the outhouses of suspected radicals

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Sacco and Vanzetti 1927

italy immigrants on trial for robbery and murder

- sentenced to death

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National origins act 1924

Limited the amount of immigrants into the USA

Wright bros 1903

1st plane

Model t ford 1908

Car | -huge mass production (assembly line)

KDKA Pittsburg 1920

1st commercial radio

Charles Lindbergh 1927

Flew solo across the Atlantic ocean

1912 election

Wilson won

New nationalism

TR - larger gov. Role - woman's suffrage - consolidated trusts and labor unions

New freedom

Wilson - small business - unregulated markets

Fundamentalist vs modernism

Fund- anti-darwin No conform to science Modern - new stuff = good M. Modern science

Prohibition (18th amendment)

No drinks Speed easy Bootlegging

Harlem renaissance

Black cultural movement

W.E.B DuBois

Black leader - wanted complete equality - NAACP cofounder

Great depression

1930s - us bank fails - stock market crash (overconfidence) - 13m unemployed - 9k banks closed

Stock market crash 1929

Less production - less consumption - more investment

Smooth-Hawley Tariff 1930

Highest us tariff | -agricultural and manufactured imports

Roosevelt's New Deal 1933

Relief, recovery, reform | -created modern welfare state

Federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC) 1933

Us insures up to $2,500 placed in bank | -guaranteed protection

Securities exchange commission 1934

Required companies to give trustful and complete financial information

Wagner act 1935

Established unjust labor practices - workers has RIGHT TO COLLECTIVE BARGIN - national labor relations board

Social securities act 1935

$ to 65+ Unemployed Restarted

Court-packing plan 1937

FDR tied to appoint new justices | -they liked new deal

Roosevelt recession 1938

Cut gov spending - more public works - pay social security s

Congress of industrial organizations 1938

Sit down stick | ----fair labor standard act-------

Huey long

"share the wealth" - tax the rich and pay the poor - 7.5 million followers

Charles coughing

Catholic past | -used radio to criticize new deal

New deal democratic coalition

Supported new deal, voted for democrats

Bracero programs 1942

Mexicans can work in us due to labor shortage

Good neighbor policy

Withdrawal of us troops for foreign policy | -helped Economically

Neutrality acts 1935-1939

4 laws designed to keep the us out of international conflict

Lend-lease act 1940

Power to: sell, transfer, exchange, lend equipment | $50 billion worth of it to British

Atlantic charter 1941

Us and British | -pleased no to acquire new land after ww2

Pearl harbor 1941

Japan bombs USA | -we join ww2

Manhattan project 1942

Secret us program | -developed atomic bomb

Invasion of Normandy 1944

Operation overlord - 156,000 troops - beat natzis June 6

Yelta conference 1945

FDR, Churchill, Stalin - Russia joins war against Japan - for Manchuria and other lost territories during Russo-jap war

Hiroshima and Nagasaki 1945

To end war | 100,000s dead

Rosie the riveter

Female propaganda - increased female work force - do your part

A. Philip. Randolph

Labor and civil rights -investigated job discrimination -

Congress of racial equality 1942

Ain't racist

Japanese American internment 1942

Executive larger 9066 | -112k imprisoned at camps

Zoom suit riots 1943

Sailors attack Mexican teens

Yellow journalism

Exploits, disorders, exaggerates the news | -Pulitzer and Hearst