Rise of Modern America Final

Nationalism

your nation is better than all the others, other nations are bad, it is a modern development

Colonialism

empires of the past were starting to crumble and territories were starting to demand recognition

Alliance System

People didn’t want a piecemeal takeover so alliances were made

U-Boats

German submarines, very powerful but very fragile

Lusitania

British ship carrying arms and passengers from US, sunk by U-boats, gave US excuse to join war

Committee for public info

Gave speeches to high schools, propaganda

2 messages in propaganda

US is unified and US is righteous

Socialist Party of America

anti war, popular until Bolshevik revolution

Kate Richards O’Hare

socialist very against WWI

Espionage Act

Allowed up to 20 years in prison for dissent and criticizing war

War Industries Board

switched production to war effort

Railroad Administration Act

Gov took over railroads and insisted on standard rail lines

National War Labor Board

monitored complaints of corporate greed and tried to get peace with workers and businesses

Scheele’s Green

Used Arsenic for color but glue broke down and poison was released into the air

Indoor plumbing

Made people sick because sewer soaked into groundwater, led to cholera outbreaks

Glass Baby Bottles

Very dangerous because of rubber and cork

Dr. Loring Miner

First identified the Spanish Flu on an army base

Flu Waves

Spanish Flu spread in waves, the first was mild and the second and third were much more deadly

Purple death

turning purple from lack of oxygen

Great Migration

African Americans moving from south to north for more opportunities

Chicago Race Riot of 1919

Black boy was killed at a beach and there was no justice, which led to whites rioting in a black neighborhood when the blacks protested, blacks fought back and it led to more formal segregation

Eugene Williams

Boy killed at the beach that sparked the Chicago race riot of 1919

University of Chicago study

Determined Chicago race riot had been caused by housing shortage, heatwave, and white youths which was rare

Omaha Race Riot of 1919

Tensions between blacks and whites at meatpacking plants boiled over

William Brown

Was blamed for raping a white woman during the Omaha Race Riot; he was lynched and his corpse was burned

Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

White people burned black neighborhood so they could move in

Elaine Race Riot of 1919

sharecropper union attacked

Household and Progressive Union

union formed by sharecroppers attacked in Elaine race riot

Chinese Exclusion Act

blamed Chinese for stealing jobs and being lazy

New Immigrnats

3rd wave of immigrants, mostly southern and eastern European immigrants

Nativism

solution to concern about immigration

American Protective Association

American anti-Catholic, anti-union secret society

scientific racism

tried to prove that some races are more fit than others

Cesare Lombroso

Criminalism is inherited and could be proven by physical features

Criminal Man

book by Cesare Lombroso

Public Health Service

set up checkpoints to medically inspect immigrants; meant to prevent entrance of disease to nation

Immigration act of 1917

restricted immigration, literacy tests, banned “undesirables”

Emergency Quota Act of 1921

Numerical limits on immigrants, Northern Europeans were allowed the most

Immigrant Restriction Act of 1924

Basically ended immigration from East Asia and India

Harry Laughlin

Led Immigrant Restriction act, said many immigrants were unfit and insane

Ossian Sweet

African American Doctor from Detroit, moved to white neighborhood for a bigger house, mob showed up and a white person was killed, Ossian and family were put on trial for murder but acquitted

Clarence Darrow

defended Ossian Sweet and Scopes

Hollywood

unsettled people with ideas of diversity

Theaters

segregated by class but poor could still see the movies

Scopes Trial

questioned if evolution should be taught in schools

Civic Biology

textbook that mentioned evolution briefly

Butler Bill

Banned teaching of evolution and forced teaching of creationism

William Jennings Bryan

for religious literalism

Women’s Rights Movement

started in mid-1800s used old ideas to argue for women’s rights

Republican Motherhood

mothers needed to be moral guides and educate children to be good citizens, WRM argued it should expand outside the home

Seneca Falls Convention

led by Stanton and Mott

Declaration of Sentiments for Women

if women have to obey laws, they should be able to vote to make them

Flapper

androgenous and more likely to do “masculine” things, freaked people out

Eugenics

improving human population by controlling breeding

Francis Galton

tied evolution to eugenics

Hereditary Genius

by Galton, outlined nature v.s. nuture, behavior is hereditary

Reproductive morality

combined social Darwinism and republican motherhood, women needed to be responsible in who they procreated with

Positive eugenics

encourages fittest to reproduce

Negative Eugenics

discourages “bad” people from reproducing

International Eugenics Congresses

Eugenics conferences

Bleeker Van Wagenen

solve degeneracy by euthanizing unfit

American Eugenics Society

hosted lectures and exhibits about eugenics

Fitter Family Contests

contest for best family

Segregation v.s. sterilization

moving unfit to asylums to keep them separate from fit or just sterilizing them

Buck v. Bell

test case of forced sterilization

Albert Priddy

doctor in Buck v. Bell case at Virginia colony for epileptics and feebleminded, wanted to perform forced hysterectomies

Carry Buck

sued because she was going to be forcibly sterilized

Mein Kampf

praised US eugenics

Miasma Theory

diseases are caused by bad smelling air

John Snow

Disproved Miasma theory, Cholera was spread through impure water

Mathias Schleidan

argued cell theory should apply to humans and everything started from a single cell

Rudolf Virchow

looked at diseases in cells and father of pathology

Germ theory

unseen microorganisms cause disease

Joseph Lister

created antiseptic surgery method

Carbolic acid

antiseptic in surgery

Ignaz Semmelweis

Hungarian OB, introduced washing hands between operations

Puerperal Fever

post-birth infection

Jacob Kolletschka

Cut finger and died of infection

Henry Ford

didn’t invent anything but looked at the world differently

scientific management

making process as efficient as possible

Frederick Winslow Taylor

wrote principles of scientific management

The man knowbody knows

Jesus was master of advertisement

Brave New World

about distopia with new deity

Birth of a nation

movie about KKK

D.W. Griffith

director of Birth of a Nation

Clansman

Book birth of a nation is based on

Thomas Dixon

Author of clansman

Barbara Jordan

Said people want the promise of America