Chapter 6-- Set 4
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- New Freedom
- called for tariff reductions, banking reforms, and stronger antitrust laws
- Sixteenth Amendment
- allowed Congress to levy taxes based on a person's income
- Nineteenth Amendment
- constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote
- Federal Reserve Act
- created a central fund for banks and placded banking system under the supervision of government
- Alice Paul
- American social reformer, suffragist, activist who founded the NWP
- Woodrow Wilson
- created Federal Reserve System and Federal Trade Commission, encated child labor laws, reform laws included direct election of senators, prohibition, and women's suffrage
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- suffragist and leader of NAWSA
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restricted free trade
- William Howard Taft
- angered Progressives by supporting the Payne-Aldric Tariff; lost Roosevelt's support, defeated for seconf term
- Newlands Reclamation Act
- allowed federal government to build irrigation projects