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Progressive Review 2
terms with definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Northern Securities Case | A huge NW railroad trust busted by TR under Sherman anti trust |
| Hepburn Act | made ICC cover pipelines, RRs, terminals etc, forbid RR special treatment |
| Anthracite Coal | a strike by workers lead by Mitchell, army sent in to force owners to cooperate, victory for workers |
| Meat Inspection/ pure food and drug | brought about by Upton Sinclairs Jungle, food and drugs inspected and labelled |
| Conservation | TR big on conservation, set off a lot of land, Newlands reclamation act, $ for land --> irrigation. frieinds with pichot |
| Payne aldrich tariff | useless lowered tariff on random things, made taft lose progressive support |
| Ballinger-Pinchot Affair | ballinger controversially sold gvt coal land to jp and big business, pinchot enraged by taft took ballingers side, rift btwn him and TR |
| Us steel antitrust | he couldnt dissolve it but through trying to brought out truth that TR was a part of making the trust |
| Triangle Shirtswaist fire | a fire in a factory where there were completely unprepared and many women and children died |
| mann-elkins act | extended ICC to cover communications |
| Tafts fallout with TR | - Taft not progressive enough for tr - TR's new nationalism was for everthing taft hated - ballinger-pinchot -US steel |
| Progressivism | a grassroots movement of social change focused on helping the poor people. They wanted to decrease power of rich people in business. By the people for the people. |
| Bull Moose Party | aka TR's progressive party in 1912 |
| New Nationalism | !) strong national gvt 2)continue old policies 3)protection of working women and children 4)woman's suffrage 5)against child labor |
| New Freedom | 1) gvt should play the role of umpire 2) gvt's role is to keep order, stabalize, and regulate |
| outcome of 1912 election | wilson elected, this election shows a very progressive feeling at the time |
| Sixteenth Ammendment | income tax |
| Underwood-Simmons Tariff | this greatly reduced tariffs from 40% - to 29 %, since the gvt could no longer make money here they had to make the 16th ammendment of income tax |
| clayton anti trust | revamped the sherman anti trust, prohibits one company from owning the stock of another or for one man to be head of more than one corporation |
| Federal Trade Commission | country already had commerce dpt but the FTC prevented companies from sneaking around laws and it plugged the loopholes |
| Federal Reserve Act | private banks would act as cooperatives to prevent runs on the banks , demonstrates new freedom since the gvt regulated but didnt own |
| Wilson on Segregation | was in favor of it, wrote movie Birth of a Nation about the KKK |
| Russo Japanese War | they were fighting over chinese manchuria, US active in their peace process (japan basically won) |
| panama canal | whole thing with 40 million to french so columbians refuse 10 million, revolution, panamanians accept our money |
| roosevelt corollary to monroe doctrine | expanded our power of intervention through all of the continent of america and warned europe to stay out |
| Algeciras Conference | took place in spain and was between france and germany making peace over the issue of morrocco, peace lasted 8 years, 1906 till WWI 1914 |
| Mexican intervention | after revolution, madero, then huerta, us didnt acknowledge him, supported carrancas who later became pres |
| Pancho Villa | carranzas military hero, US filmed him adn loved him till he burned new mexican city and killed americans, then general pershing and 15000 soldiers went hunting in mex for him, a neighbor killed him |
| dollar diplomacy | taft believed business and commerce should control world business, ironic since was limitting domestic business power |
| moral foreign policy | wilson wanted to be moral but when countries went against us defeinding us more important |
| progressive overseas? | 1) negotiation not war 2) no imperialism 3) help lower class people of the country 4)encourage countries to help their workers 5) support freedom |
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