assessment 8 Flashcards
Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 election because Roosevelt split the Republican vote by creating which party?
The Progressive Party / Bull Moose Party
What did Wilson call his version of Progressivism
The New Freedom
What Act did Wilson pass that revolutionised the American banking system by splitting it into 12 districts?
The Federal Reserve Board Act
How much of their capital did national and state banks have to give to the Federal Reserve Board in their district in order to receive rediscount rates?
6%
What organisation did Wilson set up to regulate Trusts and Monopolies?
The Federal Trade Commission
What Act did Wilson pass to try and ensure that the Sherman Anti-Trust Act was adhered to?
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
What did Samuel Gompers compare the Clayton Anti-Trust Act to?
The Magna Carta
What was the name of the Tariff Act that Wilson brought in to reduce the number of products subject to the tariff as well as the tariff rate?
The Underwood Tariff
Why was it not that revolutionary that some of the products were taken off of the list of goods that were subject to the tariff?
All of the products freed from tariffs by the Underwood Tariff Act were produced cheaply in the US and thus didn’t need the protection of tariffs
What did Wilson introduce to make up for the revenue lost by the introduction of his Tariff Act?
An Income tax or the Revenue Acts
Which of Wilson’s Progressive Acts introduced the 8 hour day?
The Adamson Act
Which of Wilson’s Progressive Acts introduced sick pay for federal workers?
The Workman’s Compensation Act
Which of Wilson’s Progressive reforms was repealed after two years?
The Federal Child Labour Act
In which State did Wilson send federal troops in order to break a mining strike?
Colorado
Which proposed legislation that would have protected the lives of African Americans was opposed by Woodrow Wilson?
Anti-Lynching Legislation
What philosophy underpinned Wilson’s foreign policy?
Wilsonian Idealism / moral diplomacy / Wilsonianism
Which part of the World did Wilson initially say he had little interest in during his 1912 election campaign but then proceeded to become more involved there than any other president had done before?
Latin America
Which Act replaced the Mckinley Tariff Act in 1894?
Wilson Gorman Tariff Act
Who did Wilson give $20m in compensation to for the takeover of the Panama Canal in 1903?
Columbia
What type of governments did Wilson prefer in Latin America?
Just Governments
Which populist Mexican President was killed by Huerta in 1913?
Madero
Which president of the US refused to condemn Huerta’s murder of Modero?
William Taft
To whom did Wilson provide armaments to attack Huerta?
Carranza
Where did Wilson first deploy troops in Mexico?
Veracruz
Who did Wilson betray that lead to the murder of 36 Americans on US soil?
Pancho Villa
Who did Wilson send into Mexico to find Pancho Villa in 1916?
General Pershing
Can you name two of the three other countries, besides Mexico, where US troops were involved during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson
Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua
What did Wilson force US ships to do when they went through the Panama Canal?
Pay the tolls
Where did 1,500 women dressed in black march for peace in 1914?
New York
Where had Wilson cycled as a child that made him more sympathetic to the British?
The Lake District
Why did House, Lansing and Wilson consider Germany a threat to America
Their militarism or past conflicts in Mexico and Samoa
Roughly how much did the US loan Britain and her allies in WWI?
$10b dollars
By how much did US trade with the Allies outstrip trade with the Central Powers in WWI
10 times
What did the Germans declare in both 1915 and 1917 that eventually would help force the Americans to join the war?
Unrestricted Submarine Warfare
Can you name any ship that was sunk by the Germans that cost American lives?
The Arabic or the Lusitania
Which incredibly influential Democrat resigned over Wilson’s lack of neutrality in trade and condemnation of breaking of the laws of the sea?
William Jennings Bryan
In which year did Wilson first publicly make noises about his potential new way of conducting world affairs?
1912
Who was Wilson’s envoy that was ignored by the French, British and Germnas in 1915 and 16
Colonel Edward House
Where was there a revolution in March 1917 that enabled America to view the war as a good versus evil paradigm?
Russia
The Zimmerman Telegram promised which country German military support?
Mexico
What economic argument was put forward by Hartley Grattan, Walter Mills, Charles Beard and Benjamin O Fordham to explain Wilson’s decision to go to war?
That America was never neutral and entered the war as part of big business backed war profiteering and Wilson was pushed into it by the Robber Barons and the bankers.
What was the theory put forward by Carl Degler?
The Legalistic argument about the laws of the sea
What was the name of the Umbrella organisation that was set up in 1916 to organise America’s prospective war effort?
The Council of National Defence
Which Acts were introduced to make sure that American’s did not say anything against the war or openly talked about information that might aid the enemies of the US?
The Sedition and Espionage Acts
The Food Administration passed the Lever Food and Fuel Act which introduced which Special food days? (You only need one of them)
Meatless Mondays and Porkless Thursdays
What did Wilson introduce to improve Industrial Relations?
The National Labor Board
Which amendment gave women the vote in 1920?
19th Amendment
What was the name of the NAACP publication that was investigated by the US government during WWI?
The Crisis
What was the term used to describe the movement of 500,000 African Americans from the South to Industrial cities in the North?
The Great Migration
What term did Wilson use to describe his vision of a peace agreement that didn’t entail taking revenge on the side that lost?
Peace without victory
What was the term for Wilson’s policy of allowing all nations to have their own country and rule over their own affairs?
Self Determination
What was the name of the organisation that Wilson wanted to set up to organise world affairs as part of his 14 points?
The League of Nations
Who opposed the formation of the international organisation proposed by Wilson as leader of the Republican dominated Congress?
Henry Cabot Lodge
What fraction of congress did Wilson need and almost achieved to get the Treaty of Versailles ratified in its entirety?
2/3
Which article of the covenant of the League of Nations did the Republicans object to ?
Article 10
What happened to Woodrow Wilson that meant he couldn’t continue to fight for the full ratification of the Treaty of Versailles to his fullest?
He had a stroke
Which resolution in October 1921 finally recognised the peace at the end of WWI?
The Knox Porter Resolution
Which Republican won the 1920 election?
Warren G Harding
Once the Republicans returned to power in 1920 what two traditional America governmental policies did they return to?
Isolationism and Laissez Faire
Can you name any of the industries in which America was the leading producer in the 1920s?
Oil, Coal, fertilizer, chemicals, steel.
