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- Woodrow Wilson
- Democrat picked him as their candidate, he was a progressive. became President in 1912. Made a program called New Freedom. Also Federal Reserve Act.
- Federal Reserve Act
- This act created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal reserve Board. It was an attempt to provide the United States with a sound yet flexible currency. The Board it created still plays a vital role in the American economy today.
- Nineteenth Amendment
- amendment to the constitution giving women the right to vote
- Alice Paul
- head of the National Woman's party that campaigned for an equal rights amendment to the Constitution. She opposed legislation protecting women workers because such laws implied women's inferiority. Most condemned her way of thinking.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- made it illegal to form a trust that interferred with free trade between states or with other countries
- Sixteenth Amendment
- Congress was provided the power, in 1913, to levy and collect taxes on incomes.
- Clayton Antitrust Act
- law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations
- Women's Christian Temperance Movement
- reform organization that led the fight against alcohol in the late 1800s
- William Howard Taft
- supported the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. Lost Roosevelts support
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Spoke powerfully in favor of suffrage, worked as a school principal and a reporter ., became head of the National American Woman Suffrage, an inspiried speaker and abrilliant organizer. Devised a detailed battle plan for fighting the war of suffrage.
- New Freedom
- Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters.