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- What happened in the election of 1912
- The Democrats chose Wilson and the Republicans split between TR and Taft
- what was the New Freedom
- It was a program that called for stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform and tariff reductions. It favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the function of unregulated/unmonopolized markets. Democrats also shunned welfare and pinned economic faith on competition
- What Theories did Herbert Croly write about in The Promise of the American Life?
- Tr&Croly believed in theories that favored consolidation of the trusts, paralleled by the growth of regulatory agencies
- what was the triple wall of privilege that wilson wanted to kill after being elected in 1912?
- 1) tariff 2) banks 3)trusts
- how as the tariff killed?
- It was killed by the Underwood Tariff bill which reduced rates to 27%. It also enacted the graduated income tax (16th amendment)
- The financial structure depended on a Civil War banking Act which was inadequate. what was done to remedy this
- Aldrich, a republican senator in 1908 investigated the matter and concluded that a 3rd national bank was needed
- what was the federal reserve Act of 1913
- It was a nationwide system of 12 regional reserve districts, each with its own bank
- How were the trusts weakened
- The Federal Trade Commission act of 1914 llowed a presidentially appointed commision to search industries engaged in interstate commerce, and expected to root out unfair practices.
- what act promised the Filipinos independence as soon as they had a stable govt.?
- The Jones Act of 1916
- what amendment provided for direct election of the senators?
- 17 amendment
- what were the Causes to WWI
- 1) alliances 2) militarism 3)nationalism 4) imperialism 5) murder of the Austria-Hungary heir..
- what helped bring the US into to the war?
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1)Zimmerman note(note from Ger. foreign secretary that tried to tempt Mex. in2 helping by offering them recovery of their lands)
2)German U-boats
3) Committee on Public Information, headed by George Creel - who headed the committee of Public Information
- George creel
- what act was passed in 1917 that targeted anti war socialists and radical IWW.
- The Epsionage Act of 1917 had Eugene V. Debs jailed for 10 years in 1918
- what case supported the legality of revoking the freedom of speech if it presented a clear and present danger to the US
- In 1919 Schenck V. US was passed and it made revoking the freedom of speech ok in certain situations
- What counsel was set up to study problems of economic mobilzation for the war.
- Council of national defense
- Bernard baruch was in charge of what board?
- Bernard Baruch was in charge of the War Industries board which made sure that any unemployed male was immediately drafted. "Labor will win the war"
- How Did the women in the 20th century protest against the war?
- They followed Alice Paul and created that National Women's party which demonstrated against Kaiser Wilson. They did this thru hunger strikes and marches.
- what benefit did the war give women?
- The war gave women suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment
- Herbert Hoover, head of the food Administration had already been famous for what?
- He was already renown for organizing a successful food drive for war racked/starved Belgium.
- Hoover was pro voluntary compliance which was seen in "wheatless wednesdays." This spirit of self-denial led to what
- It led to the Prohibition which was passed by the 18th amendment
- what did the conscription do?
- it drafted men but exempted men from key industries, it also didnt allow draft dodgers/substitutes
- During WWI what was General Pershings objective
- 1)Cut the german lines aiding the Western front.
- What happened at the battle of the Meuse-Argonne
- It lasted 47 days& 10% of the Americans involved died. The germans were being deserted by their allies, and they were being suffocated by the British blockade
- Japan had threatened to walk out of the peace conference. What made them stay?
- Wilson said they could have the German Shandong holding
- When did the Red Scare occur?What were reactions to it
- The Red scare took place in 1919-1920. It resulted in a re-emergence of the KKK, criminal syndicalism laws which made social change thru violence illegal, Sacco and Vanzetti case, emergency Quota Act of 1921, Immigration Act of 1924 and Mitchell Palmer
- which immigration act limited the number of immigrants entering the United States in any one year to 3 percent of the size of each nationality group that had been living in the United States in 1910
- the Emergency Quota Act of 1910
- What immigration act limited the # of immigrants entering the US to 2% and based it on the Census of 1890
- The Immigration Act of 1924
- what document showed the fight between old/new, conservative modern ETC
- The John Scopes Trial in the 20th century
- Who wrote the Man That Nobody Knowsq
- Bruce Barton wrote it and it was about Jesus having been the greatest adsman
- what were the results of the car?
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1) 1 mill died in car accidents. "The public be rammed."
2)the RR was hit by competition (it no longer carried mail becuz of the air plane and cars took away passengers)
3) "prostitution house on wheels" teens could now conveniently explore each other's bodies.
4) made possible the consolidation of churches/schools
5) suburbs spread out
6)more highways
7)less attractive states less population - who invents long wave radio signals?
- Guglielmo Marconi which stimulated sports and forced politicians to modify their rhetoric
- what was the first movie featured in 5 cent theatres
- The Great Train Robbery
- who was elected in 1920
- harding
- who does harding select as supreme court justice
- Taft
- what reverses Mueller V. Oregon
- Adkins V. Childrens hospital
- what encouraged private consolidation of the RRs&ICC to guarantee their profitablility
- The Esch-Cummins Act
- How did the Railway Labor board cause a strike/
- They cut wages by 12% in 1922 provoking a 2 month strike that ended when General daughterty imposed an injunction on the workers. Union membership decreased by 30%
- when did the Washington Disarmament conference take place
- 1921-1933
- In what year did the Five-Power Naval treaty occur
- In 1922
- Why did the tariffs increase while Harding and Coolidge were president?
- They knew that tariffs were great for biz however, they didnt understand that those tariffs hurt the countries who owed us money
- Who was involved in the teapot Dome scandal
- evil Albert Fall, secretary of the interior-the innocent secretary of the navy- the evil clients Harry Sinclair and Edward Doheny--and the naive Harding himself
- which general attorney was investigated in 1924 for selling illegal pardons
- General attorney Harry M. Daugherty