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APUSH 28-29
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Underwood Tariff | This tariff provided for a substantial reduction of rates and enacted an unprecedented, graduated federal income tax |
| Federal Reserve Act | created a central banking system, consisting of twelve regional banks governed by the Federal Reserve Board |
| Clayton AntiTrust Act | amendment passed by U.S. Congress in 1914 that provides further clarification and substance to the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 on topics such as price discrimination, price fixing and unfair business practices. |
| Workingmen’s Compensation Act | granted assistance to federal civil-service employees during periods of disability |
| Adamson Act | established an eight-hour day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime |
| Jones Act | The act that granted the Phillipines territorial status and promised independence as soon as stable government was achieved |
| U Boats | German submarines played an important role in drawing the United States into the First World War |
| Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans |
| Zimmerman Telegram | intercepted dispatch in which German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman urged Mexico to join the Central Powers and promised that if the United States entered the war, Germany would help Mexico recover Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. |
| Fourteen Points | Woodrow Wilson's proposal to ensure peace after World War I, calling for an end to secret treaties, widespread arms reduction, national self-determination, and a new league of nations |
| Committee on Public Information (CPI) | an independent agency of the United States government that functioned from 1917 to 1919 |
| Espionage Act | made it a crime to obstruct military recruitment, to encourage mutiny, or to aid the enemy by spreading lies |
| Schenck v. US | A 1919 decision upholding the conviction of a socialist who had urged young men to resist the draft during World War I |
| War Industries Board | Established during WW1 coordinated the purchase of war supplies between the War Department and the Navy |
| Industrial Workers of the World | radical union aimed to unite the American working class into one union to promote labor's interests |
| Great Migration | The migration of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North, which held promises of jobs, during and after World War I |
| 19th Amendment | extended the right to vote to women in federal or state elections |
| League of Nations | international peacekeeping organization, Wilson's fourteenth point |
| Treaty of Versailles | peace settlement signed after World War One , subjected Germany to strict punitive measures |
| Louis Brandeis | persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of the harmful effects of factory labor on women's weaker bodies |
| George Creel | Journalist who was responsible for selling America on WWI and was head of the Committee on Public Information |
| Herbert Hoover | republican who ran on a campaign of prohibition and prosperity, blamed him for the stock market crash |
| Alice Paul | American suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | Republican who disagreed with the Versailles Treaty, and who was the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee |
| Social Gospel | A reform movement led by Protestant ministers who used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor |
| Muckrakers | Popular journalists who used publicity to expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business and government |
| Initiative/referendum/recall | Increasing the power of voters over the political process. |
| Muller v. Oregon | upheld an Oregon law limiting the workday for female wage earners to ten hours |
| Lochner v. New York | setback from labor reformers, this 1905 Supreme Court decision invalidated a state law establishing a ten-hour day for bakers |
| Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire | A fire in Triangle Shirtwaist factory, many young women died, leading to the transformation of the labor code |
| Elkins Act | gave federal courts the power to end rate discrimination |
| Ida Tarbell | A leading muckraker and magazine editor , exposed corruption of oil industry |
| Meat Inspection Act | Required strict cleanliness requirements for meat packers and created a program of federal meat inspection |
| Pure Food & Drug Act | prohibited the sale of misbranded or adulterated food and drugs in interstate commerce and laid a foundation for the nation's first consumer protection agency |
| Dollar Diplomacy | exerting financial power as a form of imperialism |
| Payne-Aldrich Bill | a bill lowering certain tariffs on goods entering the United States |
| New Nationalism | a national approach to the country's affairs and a strong president to deal with them |
| New Freedom | emphasized business competition and small government |
| Eugene Debs | a labor leader who helped organize the American Railroad Union |
| Jacob Riis | A Muckraker, wrote "How the Other Half Lives" |
| Florence Kelley | A lifelong battler for the welfare of women, children, blacks, and consumers |
| John Muir | a Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States |
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