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- American Expeditionary Force
- units that had been integrated with Native American soldiers
- Louis brandeis
- Supreme court appointee by wilson who was controversial becuase he was a jew
- Meat Inspection act
- 1906 TR) provided for sanitary regulations and inspections in meat packing facilities. Wartime scandals in 1898 relating to spoiled canned meats and The Jungle were a powerful force for reform.
- British Blockade
- They planted explosives in the North Sea War Zone
- Meatless Monday & Wheatless Wednesday
- government propaganda in efforts to conserve food
- Four Minute Men
- CPI voluneers who gave pep talks
- Harrison Narcotic Control Act
- (1914 TWW) "An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenu, and to impose a special tex on all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or coca leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations,...requires prescriptions for products exceeding the allowable limit of narcotics and mandates increased record-keeping for physicians and pharmacists who dispense narcotics."
- Committee on Public Information
- An agency that publicized the government's version of events
- Tax
- money coming into government
- North Sea War Zone
- an area of the Atlantic that the U.S. passed through with trade ships
- duty
- low or revenue tariff
- Child Labor Act
- (1919 TWW) placed a 10% tax on profits of child employing companies, it was struck down by the Supreme Court (Bailey v. Drexel Furniture, 1922 court's opinion this this was an inappropriate use of Congress' power to tax)
- archduke franz ferdinand
- assassinated in Bosnia by a Bosnian Serb which led the Austria declaring war on Serbia and in turn creating WW1
- Keating-Owen Act
- (1916 TWW) barred interstate shipment of goods made by children, it was struck down by the Supreme Court (Hammer v. Dogenhart, 1918 court's opinion that this legislation aimed to alter the production of a good, not its shipment)
- progressive era
- time when US became more urbanized and industrialized
- Blacks Migrate Northward
- the war had disrupted European immigration, so the blacks moved up from the south to be hired
- Schenck vs. United States
- a case in which Justice Holmes stated that the right of free speech posed a "clear and present danger" to the nation
- Edith Gault
- Wilson's second wife who hid condition from the public
- Fourteen Points
- 14 points or ideals that Wilson wanted to direct towards the war
- Expenditure
- Money spent by government
- lusitania
- a British liner sunk by German U boats that included Americans
- capitation
- direct tax to consumer
- New freedom
- Wilson's political vision of small government, free competition
- Theodore Roosevelt
- President from 1901-1909 after Mckinley got shot
- Federal reserve act
- compromise measure creating 12 regional fed reserve banks under mixed public/private control which could lend money to corporarions or individual borrowers
- Zimmermann Telegram
- sent from Germany to Mexico and stated that if Mexico would declare war on the U.S., Germany would help them reclaim "lost territories"
- Selective Service Act
- (1917) required all men between ages of 21-30 to register for draft
- Intelligence Testing
- helped to assign duties and show who had officer potential
- Revenue
- money inside government
- income tax
- in 16th amendment, it helepd government pay for various federally funded projects
- world safe for democracy
- an idea to create a postwar national order presented to Congress when they declared war
- tariff rates
- wilson's primary purpose in office, it headed his political agenda
- Budget
- government spending plan
- Espionage Act
- (1917) set fines and prison sentences for a variety of loosely defined antiwar activities
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- (1906 TR) prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or fraudulently labeled foods and drugs.
- Social legislation
- laws that seek to promote the common good
- Federal trade Commission
- (1914 TWW) government agency that increased federal authority in the business/corporate world-empowered to advise corporations concerning unfair practices, investigate unfair business practicesl; could order a business to "cease & desist" (stop) if unfair practices discovered (mislabeling, adulteration, combinations to maintain prices, false patent claims)
- Versailles Peace Conference
- a conference held to sort things out after the war, held in France, The Treaty of Versailles was signed
- Liberty Sandwich & Liberty Cabbage
- replacements for "hamburger" & "sauerkraut" much like "freedom fries"
- League of Nations
- international organization that the U.S. didnt join, and it fell apart
- Jeannette Rankin
- the first woman to be elected to congress, was a pacifist and did not support the war
- Adamson Act
- (1916 TWW) dealt specifically with a railroad strike, this legislation paved the way for the standardization of the 8 hour working day - 1st federal legislation that regulated the working hours of employees in a private corporation
- impost
- high or protective tariff
- princeton
- school where wilson taught at
- Department of commerce and labor
- (1903 TR) A new cabinet position was created to address the relationship between business and labor. Within the new dept, the Bureau of Corporations was empowered to investigate and report on potentially monopolistic activities of corporations. By the time TR left office, indictments had been brought against 25 monopolies including Standard Oil Co, Northern Securities Co, and American Tobacco Co.
- 16th amendment
- Congress can collect income taxes without regard to state population
- excise
- tax on production of a certain good
- Associate Power
- The title given to US during WWI
- influenza pandemic
- killed 30 million people, originating in Africa in 1918
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- (1914 TWW) more government regulation (outlawed mergers that tend to diminish competition) on business in an effort to break down monopolies; contained a section stating that labor unions were not considered monopolistic - considered by some to be the "Magna Carta" for organized labor (federal legal sanction to strike and picket)
- Underwood tariff
- (1913 TWW) lower rates from 41% to 29%; included an income tax provision to make up for lost government revenue (the Sixteenth Amendment was passed the month before Wilson took office, thus allowed the government to tax income)
- neutrality
- the choice to not fight or support either side