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Chapter 22

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Federal Trade Commission Act 1914
Created a 5 member federal watchdog agency with the power to investigate suspected violations of federal regulatory statues and had to report them
Niagara Movement
In 1905 under Du Bois, the Afro-American Council had meetings and met annually
Joseph G. Cannon
He prevented most reform bills from even reaching a vote. The Insurgents' joined with the Dems to pass and amendment to the rules.
Ida Tarbell
She wrote magazine exposes which exposes appeared in book form like History of the Standard Oil Company (1904)
Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Roosevelt passed these Acts which required accurate labeling of ingredients, imposed strict sanitary requirements for meatpackers, and created a program of federal meat inspection.
Hepburn Act 1906
This Act tightened existing railroad regulation. Empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad rates and to examine railroad's financial records.
Clayton Antitrust Act 1914
This Act listed specific illegal activities like selling a loss to monopolize market.
Booker T. Washington
Born in slavery, he e insisted that once blacks would prove their economic value to society, racism would fade away. Meanwhile they must accept what they were going through at the moment
John Muir
President of the Sierra Club who also started the Boys Scouts (1910) and the Girl Scouts (1912)
coal mining strike
This strike happened in 1902 to gain higher wages and get the United Mine Workers Union recognized. TR acted and threatened to take over the mines.
Herbert Croly
He wrote the The Promise of American Life (1909) where he called for an activist fed govn't of the kind Hamilton had advocated in the 1790s but one that would serve all citizens, not merely the capitalist class.
Gifford Pinchot
He campaigned for conservation, planned, regulated use of the nation's forest lands for various public and commercial purposes.
W.E.B Du Bois
First African American to get a Ph.D. He rejected Washington's call for patience and the exclusive cultivation of manual skills. Demanded full access and opportunities.
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1906, he was elected President. His 1st term was in 1901. Pursued labor mediation, consumer protection, conservation, business virtue and activism abroad.
Muller v. Oregon
in 1908 the Supreme Court held a 10 hr law for women laundry workers. Defending the constitutionality of the Oregon law was Louis Brandeis who offered economic and medical evidence on the harmful effects of long hours on women workers.
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
Nicknamed wobbolies were led by William D. Haywood
Robert La Follette "Fighting Bob
He began transforming state govn't and transforming municipal govn't. Adopted the direct primary system, set up a commission to regulate railroads, increased corporate taxes, and passed a law limiting campaign spending.
Ida Wells-Barnett
rejected Washington's views
Anti-Saloon League(ASL)
In 1895, this League's shifted to the legal abolition of alcohol.
Margaret Sanger
the leader of the birth control movement, who publicized the cause by sending strikers' children to sympathizers in NYC for temporary foster care
Federal Reserve Act
In 1913 this Act was passed which created a network of 12 regional Federal Reserve Banks under mixed public and private control
Samuel M. "Golden Rule" Jones
In Ohio, he introduced profit sharing in his factory, established playgrounds, free kindergartens, and lodging houses for tramps.
Danbury Hatters case
In 1908 the supreme court limited unions' right to set up boycotts in support of strikes.
William Howard Taft
In 1908 the Republican party nominated him as President
The Ballinger- Pinchot affair
Richard A Ballinger approved the sale of several million acres of public lands in Alaska containing rich coal deposits. Then he sold it to NY bankers. Louis R. Glavis protested these actions and Ballinger was fired.
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
In 1911 this fire broke out in NY killing hundreds of people, mostly women, who were trapped behind the doors
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She wrote Women and Economics(1898) that traced the history of sexual discrimination. Argued that confining women to the domestic sphere had become outdated.
16th Amendment
This Amendment imposed an income tax.
John Dewey
He transformed more educational ideas at the University of Chicago. He said that a just & harmonious society could be built though the intelligent application of scientific method to social problems.
Alice Paul
Being impatient with NAWSA's state-by-state approach, she founded the Congressional Union later renamed the Woman's Party to bring direct pressure of the fed govn't to enact woman suffrage amendment. Picketed the White House 1917
Alton B. Parker
In 1908 the Democratic party nominated him as President. He had a platform that called for a lower tariff, denounced the trusts and embraced the cause of labor.
Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson won. His organization was called the Bull Moose party
Socialist Party of America (SPA)
In 1900 the Dem socialists formed this party including Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, and Eugene V. Debs, the Indiana labor leader who had converted to socialism during him imprisonment after the 1894 Pullman strike.
Payne-Aldrich Act
This Act raised the rates on hundreds of items.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Supporte the Anti-Saloon League
Elkins Act 1903
stiffened the penalties against railroad rebates to favored shippers.
Oswald Garrison Villard
Along with Du Bois, they formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that called for full political rights & racism
National Reclamation Act of 1902
This Act earmarked the proceeds of public sales for water management in the SW and set up the Reclamation Service to plan irrigation projects
Federal Reserve Board
The Federal Reserve Act was put under this board's contorl consisting of the secretary of the treasure, the comptroller of the currency, and several other members appointed by the P for 14 year terms.
Federal Reserve notes
Each regional bank was authorized to issue currency called this, to the private banks in its district. The Banks could use them to make loans to corporations
muckrakers
This is what President Roosevelt called the authors of of articles exposing urban political corruption & corporate wrongdoing, which in his opion were too one sided
17th Amendment
By 1913, this Amendment shifted the election of US senators from state legislatures to the voters at large.
Insurgents
reform-minded Rep legislators, nicknamed this, turned against Taft after a battle over the tariff.
Henry Demarest Lloyd
He wrote Wealth Against Commonwealth, when the depression came in 1894

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