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Ch. 22-Natl. Reform
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Seventeenth Amendment | Popular election of senators; 1913 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | vp to McKinley; becomes pres. 1900; "wild man" |
| “Trust-buster” | |
| Northern Securities Company | Northwest railroad monopoly |
| 1902 United Mine Worker’s Strike | strike in which Roosevelt considered worker's needs |
| “Square Deal” | a fair deal |
| Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act 1906 | 1906; sought to restore some regulatory authority to the government; too cautious to satisfy progressives |
| William H. Taft | pres-1909; not well-liked but in fact good reformer |
| Payne-Aldrich Tariff | reduced tariff rates scarcely at all and in some areas actually raised them; weak |
| Pinchot-Ballinger Controversy | controversy that ultimately alienated Taft from Roosevelt's supporters |
| “New Nationalism” | Roosevelt's principles; social justice was possible only through the vigorous efforts of a strong federal govt |
| Progressive Party | "Bull Moose" Party; additional regulation of industry and trusts, compensation by the govt for workers injured on the job, pensions for elderly and widows w/children, and women suffrage |
| Woodrow Wilson | 1912-pres; "New Freedom" |
| “New Freedom” | the proper response to monopolies were to destroy them, not regulate them |
| Colonel Edward M. House | advisor to Wilson; held no office but close friendship |
| Underwood Simmons Tariff | provided cuts substantial enough to introduce real competition into American markets and thus to help break the power of trusts |
| Sixteenth Amendment | authorizes income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | created 12 regional banks, each to be owned and controlled by the individual banks of its district |
| Federal Trade Commission Act | created a regulatory agency that would help businesses determine in advance whether their actions would be acceptable to the govt |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | weak |
| Louis Brandeis | first jewish Supreme Court justice |
| Keating-Owen Act | the first federal law regulation child labor |
| Senator Robert LaFollette | |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | restricted the sale of dangerous or ineffective medicines |
| The Jungle | Upton Sinclair; featured appalling descriptions of conditions in the meatpacking industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | ultimately helped eliminatemay diseases once transmitted in impure meat |
| Gifford Pinchot | chief forester |
| John Muir | nation's leading preservationist and founder of the Sierra Club |
| National Reclamation Act | =Newland's Act; provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs and canals in the West |
| George Perkins Marsh | |
| “Uncivilized and civilized nations” | civilized=predominantly white and Anglo-Saxon; uncivilized=generallynonwhite, Latin or Slavic |
| “Open Door” | Asia |
| Portsmouth Conference | Roosevelt negotiated peace of Russo-Japanese War |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japan trying to expand |
| “Yellow Peril” | |
| “Great White Fleet” | fleet of ships; Roosevelt |
| “Roosevelt Corollary” | The US had the right not only to oppose European intervention in the Western Hemisphere but also to intervene itself in the domestic affairs of its neighbors |
| Platt Amendment | gave the US the right to prevent any foreign power from intruding into the new nation;Cuba |
| Panama Canal | Roosevelt orchestrated a Panamanian revolt against Colombia |
| Hay-Pauncefote Treaty | |
| John Hay | Roosevelt's sec. of state; |
| “Canal zone” | 6 mile wide zone in which US has perpetual rights |
| “Dollar Diplomacy” | Taft; extend American investments into less-developed regions |
| Porfirio Diaz | corrupt Mexican dictator |
| Pancho Villa | Mexican rebel leader |
| General John Jay Pershing | General; led American expeditionary force across Mexican border in pursuit of Pancho Villa |
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