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- Pure Food and Drug Act
- law enacted in 1906 to halt the sale of contaminated foods and drugs to ensure truth in labeling
- Interstate Commerce Act
- law enacted in 1887 established the federal government's right to supervise railroad activities and created a five-member interstate
- Sacco And Vanzetti
- italian immigrants made example of in court pertaining to red scare
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- intended to prevent the creation of monopolies by making trusts illegal
- Monroe Doctrine
- policy of u.s opposition to any european interference in the affairs of the west
- Calvin Coolidge
- President that fit in too pro business placed many high tariffs
- Muckrakers
- journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of buisness
- Woodrow Wilson
- president of 1912 endorsed new reform beileved in attacking large concentrations of power to give greater freedom,gave 14 points speech
- Ida Tarbell
- wrote about rockefeller and exposed him for what he was
- Ku Klux Klan
- Great migration led to this orginaztion growing to 4 million people
- Anthracite Coal Strike
- Strike ended By Tr in 1902
- Teapot Dome Scandal
- Scandal in which leasing of illegeal oil land happend
- 16th Amendment
- Income Tax
- Theodore Roosevelt
- President of 1901 who create the square deal
- The Lost Generation
- group of writers that rejected the new materialism of the 1920s
- The Ohio Gang
- Harding buddies who he appointed to various goverment positions
- Open Door Plan
- asked countries to not interfere with u.s trading rights in china
- Northern Securities
- company that had a monopoly on railroads
- Militarism
- the policy of building armed forces up in preparedness for war
- Manifest Destiny
- belief that u.s would inevitably expand west
- Propaganda
- a kind of biased communication designed to influence people's thoughts and actions
- Harlem Renaissance
- flowering of african american artistic creativity centered in harlem
- Charles A. Lindbergh
- made the first nonstop flight across atlantic american hero
- The jungle
- Upton Sinclairs book about conditions in meatpacking industry
- Federal Reserve Act
- Banking system established in 1913 controls U.S money supply and availability of credit
- Nationalism
- devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation
- 17th Amendment
- Direct election of senators
- Meat Inspection Act
- established strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers created a federal inspection program
- Warren G. Harding
- preached normalcy and for simple days
- Nativism
- prejudice against foreign born
- Scientific Management
- using scientific principles to increase efficiency in workplace
- 18th Amendment
- Prohibition
- Mobilization
- Preparing a Country for war
- Prohibition
- period of time where manufacture and sale of alcohol was forbided
- initiative
- Law put on ballot by people passed by people
- Selective Service Act
- require men to register with the government to be selected for military service
- Gentlemen's Agreement
- agreement by japan to limit emigration to u.s
- Elkins Act
- act that forbid rebates
- The red scare
- thinking many had regarding communism and it relation to anything
- William Howard Taft
- president of 1908 used bully pulpit had a cautious nature
- Panama Canal
- waterway that provided a shortcut between atlantic and pacific oceans
- Hepburn Act
- limited distribution of free railroad passes
- Zimmerman Note
- telegram from germansto mexico about war
- 19th Amendment
- Women's Suffrage
- Isolationism
- opposition to political and economic entanglements with other countries
- Progressive movement
- aimed to restore economic oppurtunities and correct injustices in american life
- W.E.B DU BOIS
- established NAACP and wanted a separate economy for blacks
- Federal Reserve System
- Created by Wilson as a loan system
- Treaty of versailles
- established nine new nations
- Boxer Rebellion
- rebellion of members of chinese secret society sought to free country from western influence
- The Head Of UNia
- Marcus Garvey
- Anarchists
- people opposed to any form of government
- League of Nations
- association of nations to promote international cooperation and peace
- 1902 Coal Strike
- 140,000 coal miners went on strike demanding a 20 percent raise
- Square Deal
- the various progressive reforms sponsored by roosevelt
- Settlement house
- community center providing assistance to immigrants
- Imperialism
- policy of extending a nation's authority over other countries