28-31 Flashcards
Henry Lloyd
Book against monopolies
Jacob Riis
New York Reporter, attention to poor people
Ida Tarbell
Muckraker, Mother of trusts blasted Standard Oil
Robert LaFollete
Fighting Bob, governor, Wisconsin Idea
Hiram Johnson
Put an end to trusts
Charles Evans Hughes
Investigator of malpractice by gas and insurance companies
Upton Sinclair
Author of the jungle, description of firing factory workers
William Taft
Foreign policy by leveraging wealth.
Initiative
People petition a legislature to introduce a bill.
Referendum
Citizens vote on laws instead of the government.
Recall
People can remove a bad leader.
Conservation
Preserve national resources
Muckrakers
Young reporters digging up dirt
17th amendment
Senators get elected by popular vote from citizens
18th amendment
Forbade alcohol
Elkins act
Against rebates, targeted railroad companies
Hepburn Act
ICC set reasonable rates, prohibited free passes
Northern Securities Case
Holding company dissolved by TR .
Meat Inspection Case
Preparation of meat shipped over state lines could be inspected.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Prevented mislabeling of food and drugs
Newlands Act
Washington collects money from sales of public land
Dollar Diplomacy
Foreign policy (taft), investors get poor nations in debt, then use leverage against them
Payne-Aldrich Act
was meant to lower tariff rates, but ended up raising tariffs
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Ballinger, secretary of interior opens public lands, TR fires pinchot instead of him
Woodrow Wilson
28th President, moral diplomacy
Eugene Debs
Socialist jailed, got a lot of votes
Louis D. Brandeis
reformer/attorney in case for protecting women workers.
Venustiano Carranza
mexican president in 1914, originally liked wilson, then not
Pancho Villa
mexican bandit/ robin hood. would raid and attack americans and their towns.
John Pershing
american general led troops against pancho villa.
Central Powers
Germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria, and turkey
allies
america, britain, france, italy
kaiser wilhelm 2
ruler of germany during ww1
lusitania
british ship sunk
sussex pledge
germany won’t sink passenger ships without warning
new nationalism
tr’s policy, government is more involved in economic and social affairs.
new freedom
wilson’s policy that favored small businesses and un-monopolized markets
underwood tariff
reduced import fees
16th amendment
more you make, more taxes you pay
federal reserve act
created an agency for banking with 12 regional reserve districts, controlled money in circulation
federal trade commission
investigated industries engaging in interstate commerce, stop unfair trade practice