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APUSH: Chapter 29
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Main reason why Woodrow Wilson won the election of 1912 | The Republicans were divided over two presidential candidates |
| What was the “triple wall of privilege”? | The tariff, the bank, and the trusts |
| Income tax amendment | 16th Amendment |
| Increased the amount of money in circulation as needed | Federal Reserve Act |
| Addressed a variety of corporate abuses including monopolies, false advertising, bribery, and food adulteration | Federal Trade Commission Act |
| Established an eight-hour workday for railroad employees engaged in interstate commerce | Adamson Act |
| Spark that started WWI | The assassination of the Austrian heir to the throne (Franz Ferdinand) by a Serb nationalist |
| Germany’s promise to cease sinking passenger ships without warning or care for the passengers | Sussex pledge |
| Proposed German-Mexican alliance with the promise of recovered territory | Zimmerman Note |
| Wilson’s reasoning for entering WWI | To create a safer democracy |
| Major points of the 14 points | Abolition of secret treaties, Readjustment of colonial claims to benefit both the imperialist powers and the colonists, Freedom of seas |
| George Creel promoted the war through this org. | Committee of Public Information |
| Upheld the Espionage Act and limited freedom of speech | Schenck v. United States |
| Managed labor disputes, prevented labor strikes, and regulated wages and work hours | National War Labor Board |
| Identify the “Wobblies” | Engineered industrial sabotage |
| Identify “Great Migration” | Tens of thousands of southern blacks drawn to war-industry employment--Race Riots |
| Granted women’s suffrage | 19th Amendment |
| Event that hasten U.S. involvement in WWI | 1917 Bolshevik Revolution-Russia's withdrawal from WWI |
| Major points of Treaty of Versailles | Germany would pay reparations to the Allies, Alsace and Lorraine were returned to France, Germany would provide France with coal for fifteen years |
| American political leaders who were militant isolationists. | Irreconciliables |
| Aftermath of WWI and Treaty | Ultimately led to Hitler’s ability to rise to power |
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