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IDs Omni Quiz 4
Term | Definition |
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16th Amendment | Allows congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the United States census. |
Federal Reserve Bank | A regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. |
Clayton Anti-Trust Act | Enacted October 15, 1914 was apart of the United States antitrust law with the goal of adding further substance to the US antitrust law regime; sought to prevent anticompetitive practices in their incipency. |
Sea Power | A history of naval warfare published in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. |
Yellow journalism | A type of journalism that presents little to no legitimate well researched news and instead uses eye-catching headlines to sell more newspapers. |
Treaty of Paris 1898 | An agreement made in 1898 that involved Spain relinquishing nearly all of the remaining Spanish Empire, especially Cuba, and ceding Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines to the United States. |
Anti-Imperialist League | An organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area. |
Roosevelt Corollary | An addition to the Monroe Doctrine articulated by president Theodore Roosevelt in his state of the Union address in 1904 after the velezuels crisis of 1902-1903. |
Lusitania | A British ocean liner that a German submarine sank in WWI, causing a major diplomatic uproar. |
Unrestricted submarine warfare | A type of naval warfare in each submarines and tankers id without wronging, as opposed to attaches per prize rule 1950s knows as "cruiser rule." |