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Ch. 22-Natl. Reform

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