Chapter 29

Question 1

wilson background

Answer 1

born shortly before CW
professor politician
his admiration of the confederays attempt to gain independece inspired his ideal self determination for peeps in other countries
shaterd tjs faith in masses
son of a minister, wrote inspirational sermons
lacked the common touch

Question 2

tackling dat tariff

Answer 2

summoned congress into special session and appeared in person
house passed the underwood tariff which redused rates
lobbyists tried to ge rid of bill but fai;ed
congress encated a graduated income tax

Question 3

banking before reform

Answer 3

under cw national banking act
banking reserves in large vities
house committe traced cash money to the hidden caults of A banking and business
louis d brandies wrote “other people’s money and how te bankers use it”

Question 4

underwood tariff

Answer 4

lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent

Question 5

banking after reform

Answer 5

endoresed a proposal for a decentralized bank in gov hands
federal reserve act
federal reserve board oversaw a nationwide syste of 12 regional districts w/ a bank
monwy could be swiftly increased

Question 6

federal reserve act

Answer 6

created the Federal Reserve System,

Question 7

da trusts

Answer 7

federal trade commision act
clayton antitrust act

Question 8

federal trade comission act

Answer 8

empowered a presdentally apptd commission to turn a searchlight on indsustries engged in interstate commerce
expected to crush nonomply at the source by rooting out unfair trade practives

Question 9

clayton anti trusta ct

Answer 9

lengthened the shermans acts list of illegal business practives
included price discrimination and interlocking directorties
achieved theough holdign companies
exempted labor and agricultural organizations
lefilsed striles and peaceful picketing

Question 10

holdifn companies

Answer 10

a parent company whose purpose is to buy and control the ownership interests of other companies

Question 11

other reforms (wilson making those changes)`

Answer 11

federal farm loan act made credit aviable for farmers
warehouse act authoriade loans on rhe security of staple crops
highway construction
establishment of agricultural extension work in state colleges
sailor reief in the la follete seaman act
workmingments compensation act
adamson act
nominated 1st jew for USSC ( Brandies)
oversaw segregation :(

Question 12

workingmens compensation act

Answer 12

granted assistance to fed civil service people during period of disability
restricted child labor in interstate commerce

Question 13

adamson act

Answer 13

established 8hr workda for all interstae commere train employeees

Question 14

foreign policyt

Answer 14

gov no longer offered special support for a investors in latin a and china
repealed panama canal tolls act
jones act
political tyrmoil in haiti caused ww to dispatch marines wjere they stayed for 19 yrs
concluded treaty w/ haiti provifing us supervision of financince and police
sent marines to Dr
purchased virgin islands

Question 15

jones act

Answer 15

granted phillippines territroial status when stabvle gov ciuld be established

Question 16

issues in mexico

Answer 16

for decades, mex jad beem exploited
mexicans poor
revolted
group killed the pres and installed gen victoriano huerto
ww imposed arms embargo and refused to recognisze huerta gov
tampico port
navy sent to sieze [port pf veracruz to stop a german supply of arms

Question 17

mexicans in america

Answer 17

Settle in tx, new mex, az, ad cali
built highways and roads
revolution menanced a prop and lives
cires for war

Question 18

after the huerta gov

Answer 18

gov collapesed after mediation from ABC powers
carranza took over
panco villa was rival
villas men tried to incite war b/w a and caranza gov by invading a and lilling peeps
john j pershing went to mex and mauled villas forces

Question 19

tampico incident

Answer 19

a sailors were arrested
mex apologized and freed them
further soured a-mex relationship

Question 20

beginning of ww1

Answer 20

serb patriot killed heir og austria hungary
ah presented ultimantum and serb was like absoluletly not
russia and france began to momilize confroting germ from e and w
germany attacked france through belgiom
eng joined france

Question 21

neutrality

Answer 21

ww issued neutrality proclamatiokn
central powers tried to get a w/ immigratns
allies tried to get them with eng and as simmilatities
as were already anti german and were more so when they attacked a ports and factoriesa

Question 22

allies

Answer 22

england, france, japan, italy, russia

Question 23

central powers

Answer 23

germany, austria hungary, turkey, bulgaria

Question 24

trading during wartime

Answer 24

eeng and french war orders cuased a business to boom
eng controlled wayerways didnt allow a to trade w. germany
u boats
luistania

Question 25

germ attacks a merchant ships

Answer 25

germ justidied as there weas small arms ammunition kn them
east a talk abt fighting but most of country didnt want to
ww took german warlords to task w/out fighting
made promise not to sink passenger ships w.out warnig
went back on promise and sunk lussex
ww threatended to break diplomatic relationship
germ promised again w/ string attached that a would tell allies to adjust their blockade

Question 26

uboats

Answer 26

german submarines

Question 27

luistania

Answer 27

british passenger ship sunk by germans w/ 128 a passengers

Question 28

election of 1916

Answer 28

progressives nominated tr but tr didnt want to split the party so he didnt run
repubs nominated ussc justice charles evans hughes
platofm: condemned dem tariff, assults on tariffs, and wws wishywashy poliy w/ mex and germany
ww built his slogan on the campaign “he kept us out of war”
midws and ws licked his reforms so tey voted form him
ww barely won
recieved strong support from working class and bull moosers

Question 29

germany bringing in us

Answer 29

said they couldnt afford the distictipn b.w combatant and noncombatant ships
pulled on string and ww had to end diplomatic relationship
a wanted to arm merchant shups byt fillibuster by midws ended ut
zimmerman note
uboats attacking unarmed a ships
end of russia tsars gave us a goal for fighting for democracy

Question 30

zimmerman note

Answer 30

germ goreign secraty arthur zimmermann tried to tempt mex into an alliance w/ germ by getting back lost land

Question 31

wilsons war aims

Answer 31

wanted to make the world safe for democracy
world couldnt afford the destructivr war imdustrial states could bring

Question 32

fourteen points

Answer 32

inspired allies to male greater efforts
demoralized enemies
1) proposal t abolish secret treaties
2) fredom of seas
3) removal of economic barriers among nations
4) reduction of armament burdens
5) adjustment of colonial claims in the interests of both native and colonial peeps
6-13) held out hp[e of indpendece to oppressed minority groups
14) forshaedowed the league of nations

Question 33

committe on puvlic information

Answer 33

created to sell as on war and sell the world on wilsonian war aims
jeaded by george creel
four minute men
posters, leaflets, pamphlets
hang the kaiser movies
songs
war mobilization relied more on passion and volunteers and law

Question 34

war spirit gone too far

Answer 34

rurmors of german as spying and sabotage
harrasement
hatered of german music, books and classes
renamed sauerkruat and hamburgers to liberty cabbage and liberty steak
espionage and sedion act

Question 35

espionage and sedition acts

Answer 35

persected antiwar socializsts and memeers of the industrial workers fo the world
eugene b debs sentenced to 10
any criticim of gov could be censorsed and punished

Question 36

schneck v united states

Answer 36

affirmed espionage and sedition acts legalituy arguing freedom of speech dould be revooked if it wa s a fenger to the anation

Question 37

a not ready for war

Answer 37

ignorance
fears of gov
apptd war industried board led by bernard baruch

Question 38

role of as economy

Answer 38

feeding itself ad allies
herbt c hoover deaded the food admnistration
rejected issuing ration cards
propaganda compaigns to save food
voluntary
farm production increased by 1/4
congress restcircted food use for alcpjol
gov took over rr
war industries board issued production quotas, allocated raw materials, and set prices for gov purchases

Question 39

a federal agency created by President Woodrow Wilson to ensure adequate and efficient production of wartime supplies once the United States officially entered into World War I

Answer 39

war industries board

Question 40

workers

Answer 40

“work or fight” threatened unemplyed men
af of l supprote the war
wages were raised
inflation threatedned to eclipes economic gains 6000 strike
industrial workers of the world
steel stike when 1/4 mil workers walked off and compamies brought in 30000 afrian a strikebreaksers

Question 41

great migration

Answer 41

10s of 1000s of blacks drawn to N for employment
sudden appeareance in whtie areas sparked raicial vio;ancei

Question 42

often called wobblies, a labor organization that sought to organize workers along the lines of industrial unions

Answer 42

industrial workers of the world