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APUSH Chapter 30
APUSH 2014/2015
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Woodrow Wilson | stubborn and inflexible but appealed to the people; disliked imperialism and dollar diplomacy |
| Herbert Croly | progressive thinker that wrote "The Promise of American Life"; agreed with TR's old policy of leaving good trusts alone but controlling bad trusts |
| Arsene Pujo | chairman of the Democratic House Committee; concluded that the "money monster" was was rooted in the banking system |
| Louis D. Brandeis | first Jewish Supreme Court justice; exposed the evils of the banking system |
| Victoriano Huerta | leader of the Mexican revolution |
| Venustiano Carranza | one of Huerta's rivals; became president of Mexico after the revolution ended |
| Pancho Villa | initially allied with Carranza but eventually became his rival; killed many Americans |
| John J. Perishing | American general who led troops against Pancho Villa in 1916; also took the Meuse-Argonne offensive and was commander of Expeditionary Forces in Europe during WWI |
| Kaiser Wilhem II | ruler of Germany |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Republican reformer governor of New York; later ran against Wilson in 1916 |
| New Nationalism | Roosevelt; favored consolidation of trusts and labor unions, growth of powerful regulatory agencies, women's suffrage, social welfare, minimum wage, and social insurance |
| New Freedom | Wilson; favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and free functioning markets, shunned social welfare |
| Underwood Tariff Bill | provided a substantial reduction of rates; passed in 1913 |
| 16th Amendment | gave Congress the power to lay income taxes |
| Federal Reserve Act | established the Federal Reserve Board which oversaw a nationwide system of 12 regional reserve districts each with their own bank |
| Federal Trade Commission Act | empowered a presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on industries engaged in interstate commerce; commissioners were expected to crush monopolies by rooting out unlawful competition, etc. |
| Clayton Act | lengthened the Sherman Act's list of unlawful business practices; sought to exempt labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust prosecution while legalizing strikes |
| Federal Farm Loan Act | made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest |
| Seaman's Act | required decent treatment and a living wage on merchant ships |
| Workingmen's Compensation Act | granted assistance to federal civil service employees during periods of disability |
| Adamson Act | established an 8-hour workday for all employees on trains in interstate commerce and overtime pay |
| Jones Act | granted the Philippines territorial status and promised independence as soon as they could establish a stable government |
| Central Powers | Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey |
| Allies | France, Britain, Russia, Japan, Italy |
| Lusitania | British passenger ship that was sunk by a German boat in 1915; 128 Americans died; caused the US to enter WWI against Germany |
| Arabic | British liner that was sunk by Americans with the loss of two American lives |
| Sussex | French passenger ship that was torpedoed by Germany in 1916; Wilson threatened to break diplomatic relations with Germany due to this |