Amendments
Allowed state voters to directly elect their senators.
17th Amendment
Reporters that exposed the widespread corruption in the U.S. including monopolies, slavers, child labor, etc.
Muckrakers
Young women known for embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints.
Flappers
U.S. seeking to gain territory overseas by dominating other countries poitically, socially, and economically.
Imperialism
Secret proposal of a German-Spanish alliance against the U.S. through a coded message.
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
18th Amendment
Industrial arrangement of machines, workers, and equipment for continuous work flow in mass-production operations.
Assembly Lines
Wireless telegraphy that allowed for quicker communication and the growth of entertainment.
Radio and Movies
Diverse group formed to protest American oversight in the Philippines.
Anti-Imperialist League
World Organization proposed by President Wilson and established by the Treaty of Versailles.
League of Nations
Allowed Congress to levy and collect income taxes without dividing them among the states based on population/census.
16th Amendment
An executive divison within the US federal government responsible for enforcing labor statuses and promoting welfare of workers.
Department of Labor
Music genre that emerged from African American communities in New Orelans.
Jazz
American battleship that blew up and Americans blamed a Spanish submarine mine.
USS Maine
Period of intense anticommunism in the U.S.
Red Scare
Cuban amendment that limited its sovereignty by allowing U.S. intervention.
Platt Amendment
Known as "Wobblies" that advocated to build "one big union" and industrial sabotage in defense of that goal.
International Workers of the World
Development of TVs allowed for this entertainment industry to boom.
Rise of Hollywood
Supreme court case that declared that Puerto Ricans and Filipinos does not have all American rights.
Insular Cases
Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after WWI, including the creation of the Leauge of Nations.
Wilson's 14 Points
Proviso to President William McKinley's war plans that claimed that when the U.S. overthrows Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom.
Teller Amendment
Case where the supreme court struck down on a NY law limiting bakery employees to 10hr of labor a day.
Lochner v. New York
Group of American writers and intellectuals who became disillusioned with materialism, consumerism, and traditional values after WWI.
Commander of the American Squadron who captured Manila Bay and the Philipines at the launch of the Spanish-American War.
Admiral George Dewey
British passenger line that sank after it was torpedoed by Germany in 1915.
Lusitania