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apush ch 29
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| election of 1908 | repub- william taft, democrat- william jennings bryan, socialist-eugene debs(pullman strike hero) TAFT WON |
| Dollar diplomacy | US gov't loaned money to latin amerca, they used money to hire Us businesses to create infrastructure, kept europeans out of l.a. |
| republican party | taft-roosevelt tension |
| election of 1912 | democrats-woodrow wilson repubs- taft progressive-republicans- T.R(bull moose) WILSON WON |
| Wilson as prez | minority prez, 1st south prez since civil war, attacked 3 things as prez- tariffs, banks, and trusts |
| underwood tariff | reduced tariff rates, began 1st income tax in US if you made over 3,000 a year |
| louis brandeis | author of "other people's money and how the banks use it", first jew on supreme court |
| federal reserve act | creates 12 reserve banks around the country, allowed to issue money to other banks in times of need |
| federal trade commission act 1914 | |
| clayton anti-trust act of 1914 | added more details to sherman anti trust act, restricting business, gave unions right to strike peacefully |
| federal farm loan act of 1916 | allowed farmers to get loans with low interest |
| adamson act of 1916 | established 8 hour day for RR workers and overtime on interstate commerce |
| moral diplomacy | wilsons diplomacy, foreign countries should be independant, we should be isolated (but didnt always stick to his policy) |
| jones act 1916 | |
| tampico incident | US sailors captured and released by Mexicans, wilson attacks mexico and captures Vera Cruz |
| central powers WW1 | austria-hungary, germany, turkey, Bulgaria, italy (at first) |
| allied powers WW1 | france, great britian, russia, (later) USA, japan, italy |
| the lisitania | passenger ship carrying ppl and weapons , torpedoed by germany, americans horrified by "mass murder" |
| election of 1916 | TR refuses to run bc he doesnt want to split democrat party, repubs- charles evan hughes, dems- wilson WILSON WON |
| Sussex pledge | after attacking ship called sussex, germany agreed not to attack US ships w/o warning only if US ends british blockade, wilson accepts but doesnt end blockade |
| unrestricted submarine warfare | germany declares this on US in 1917 but wilson still does not go to war |
| the zimmerman note | march 1917, germans ask mexico to ally with them, promise to attack america after war to recover mexican land |
| USA declares war | germany sinks 4 unarmed US ships(last straw) declare war april 2 1917, wilsons goal of war: to keep world safe for democracy |
| committee on public information | government propaganda office led by GEORGE CREEL, sent out public speakers created pamphlets, billboards, movies |
| consequences of propaganda | german americans were attacked, german music and books banned |
| espionage act of 1917 | made it illegal to aid the army, refuse to join the army, be disloyal |
| sedition act of 1918 | illegal to critisize government during war, aimed at discouraging protests to war by socialists and international workers of the world (aka wobblies) |
| war industries board | regulated factory production, temporary end to laissez-faire |
| national war labor board | led by taft, arbitrated between labor and owner demands, labor won higher wages and 8 hour day, however gov't still limited union power |
| "great migration" | blacks from sharecropping south move to urban north |
| conscription | mandatory military service, women and african americans allowed to enlist, but not trained for combat |
| doughboys | US foot soldiers |
| 14 points | 14 things wilson wanted to accomplish through war (abolish secret treaties, freedom of seas, reduction of arms, adjusting/reducing colonial claims, league of nations |
| paris peace conerence | wilson attended w/o any republican, european leaders were sus of wilson and didnt like 14 pts |
| big four | US, UK, France, Italy |
| treaty of versailles | revenge on germany |
| henry cabot lodge | led irreconcilble senators who opposed league of nations, wanted isolationism |
| election of 1920 | dems nominate james cox, repubs-waren harding jailed socialist eugene debs also ran |
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