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ch 22 Flashcards

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Trustbuster

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Idea of destroying all trust; Roosevelt made a few highly publicized efforts to break up combinations

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Northern securities co

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A $400 million enterprise created by J.P. Morgan, E.H. Harriman, and James J. Hill; 1904 the Supreme Court ruled to dissolve it

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Square deal

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Roosevelt’s plan for reelection that would be equal to all sides

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Hepburn railroad regulation act

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1906 sought to restore some regulatory authority in the RR to the gov; only satisfied a few progressives

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Pure food and drug act

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Prohibited the manufacturing, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs

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Meat inspection act

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Outlawed misleading labels and dangerous chemical preservatives

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Gifford Pinchot

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Roosevelt’s chief forester and the first director of the national forest service

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John muir

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Nation’s leading preservationist and the founder of the sierra club

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National reclamation act

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1902 provided federal funds for the construction of dams, reservoirs, and canals in the west; aka Newlands Act

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Forest reserve act

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Enabled president to set aside public lands wholly or in part covered with timber or undergrowth

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William H. Taft

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Became pres in 1909; was roosevelt’s most trusted lieutenant and hand picked successor; beat William bryans

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Payne Aldrich tariff

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Reduced tariff rates scarcely at all and in some area raised them

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New nationalism

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Social justice only possible through strong efforts of gov(roosevelts idea); support of graduated income and inheritance taxes, compensation, and regulation of corps.

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Progressive party

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Roosevelt created this party; bull moose party; it failed

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Woodrow Wilson

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Gov of New Jersey, he presented a progressive program called new freedom, he became pres in 1912

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New freedom

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Wilson’s progressive idea against monopolies(against bigness)

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Colonel Edward m. House

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Roosevelt’s most powerful advisor

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Underwood Simmons tariff

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Passed in a special session of congress summoned by Wilson; provided cuts substantial enough, progressives believed, to introduce real competition to American markets and break power of trusts

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Federal reserve act

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Major reform of American banking system initiated by Wilson; created 12 regional banks, each owned and controlled by ind. banks of its district

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Federal trade commission act

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Created a regulatory agency that would help businesses determine if their actions would be acceptable to the gov

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Clayton antitrust act

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Gave gov the right to supervise monopolies; Wilson lost interest & did little to protect it from conservative attacks

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Louis Brandeis

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Appointed to Supreme Court by Wilson; first Jew and most advanced progressive to serve there; wrote “Other People’s Money”

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Portsmouth conference

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A peace conference at Portsmouth, new Hampshire in 1905; Roosevelt prompted Russian recognition of Japan’s territorial gains and a Japanese agreement to cease the fighting and expansion

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Russo Japanese war

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War between Russia and Japan in which Russia’s fleet at port arthur was destroyed and Japan emerged as the preeminent naval power in the pacific

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Yellow peril

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Supposed threat to the US posed by Japan and China

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Great white fleet

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Nickname for US navy that circumnavigated the globe

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Roosevelt corollary

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Addition to the Monroe doctrine that said we could exercise international police power in the Western Hemisphere

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Panama Canal

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Canal built on the isthmus of panama that America had rights to

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Hay-Pauncefote Treaty

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Between Us and GB cancelling an 1850 pact in which they had agreed to construct a canal together

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John Hay

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Secretary of State sent to panama to make treaty with Colombian diplomats

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Dollar diplomacy

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Taft’s plan to exchange dollars for bullets

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Pancho villa

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Leader of bandits that staged raids across US border

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General John Jay Pershing

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Nicknamed Blackjack chased Pancho Into México but never found him; 12 American casualties and 40 Mexican; almost caused war

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Youngest man ever to assume presidency(age 42); had a reputation in the party as a wild man; progressive pres.

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