Chapter 29-

Question 1

An act establishing twelve Federal Reserve Banks and a Federal Reserve board, appointed by the president, to regulare banking and create stability on a national scale in the volatile banking sector. The law carried the nation through the financial crises of the First World War of 1914-1918

Answer 1

Federal Reserve Act (664)

Question 2

A banner accomplishment of WW administration, this law empowered a standing, presidentially appointed commission to investigate illegal business practices in interstwte commerce like unlawful competition, false advertising, and mislabeling of goods.

Answer 2

Federal Trade Commission Act (664)

Question 3

Law extending the anti-trust protections of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints. The acr conferred longoverdue benefits on labor.

Answer 3

Clayton Anti-Trust Act (665)

Question 4

Companies that own part or all of other companies’ in stock in order to extend monopolu control. Often, a hokding company does not produce goods or services of its own but only exists to control other companies. The Clayton Anti-Truet Act of 1914 sought to clampxdown on ghese companies when they obstructed competition

Answer 4

Holding companies (665)

Question 5

Passed under WW, this law granted assistance to federa, civil-servkde employees during periods of disability. It was precursor to labor-friendly legislation passed during the New Deal.

Answer 5

Workingmen’s Compensation Act (665)

Question 6

This law established an 8 hr day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime. This first federal law regulating the hours of workers in private companies, it was upheld by the Supreme Court in Wilson v. New

Answer 6

Adamson Act (665)

Question 7

Law accordkng territorial status to the Phili and promising independence as soon as a “stable government” could be established. He US did not grant the Phili independencd until July 4, 1946

Answer 7

Jones Act (666)

Question 8

An arrest of Amsailors by the Mexican government that spurred WW to dispatch the Am navy to seize the port of Veracruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and Mex

Answer 8

Tampico Incident (668)

Question 9

Gemrany and Austria-Hungary, later joined by Turkey and Bulgaria, made up this alliance against the Allies in WWI

Answer 9

Centeal Powers (669)

Question 10

Brit, Russia, Fra, later joined by Italy, Japan, and the US, formed this alliance against the Central Powers in WWI

Answer 10

Allies (669)

Question 11

Germ submarines, named for the German Unterseeboot, or “undersea boat,” proved deadly for Allied ships in the war zone. U-boats attacks played an important role in drawing the US into the First World War

Answer 11

U-boats (671)

Question 12

Brit passenger liner that sank after it was torpedoed by Germany on May 7, 1915. It ended the lives of 1,198 people, including 128 Americans, and pushed the US closer to war

Answer 12

Lusitania (671)

Question 13

German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman had secretly proposed a German Mexican alliance against the US. Note was intercepted and published in March 1917, it caused an uproar that made some Americans willing to enter the war

Answer 13

Zimmerman note (673)

Question 14

WW proposal to ensure peace after WWI, calling for an end to secret treaties, widespread arms reduction, national self determination, and a new league of nations

Answer 14

14 points

Question 15

A government office during WWI known popilarly ss the Creel Committee for its chairman George Creel, it was dedicated to winning everyday Americans’ support for the war effort. It refularly distributed prowar propaganda and sent out an army of four minute men to rally crowds and deliver “patriotic pep”

Answer 15

Committee on Public Information (675)

Question 16

A law prohibitijg interference with the draft and other acts of mational “disloyalty” together with the Sedition Act of 1918, which added penalties for abusing the government in writing, it ceaated a climate that was unfriendly to civil liberties

Answer 16

Espionage Act (676)

Question 17

A Supreme Court devision that upheldmthe Espionage and Sedition Acts, reasoning that freedom of speech could be curtsiled when it posed a “clear and present danger” to the nation

Answer 17

Schenck v. US (676)

Question 18

Headed by Bernard Baruch, this federal agency corrdinated indistrial production during WWI, setting production quotas, allocating raw material, and pushing companjss to increase efficiency and eliminate waste. Under the economic mobilization of War Industries Bosrd, industrial oroduction in the US increased 20% during the war

Answer 18

War Industries Board (677)

Question 19

The IWW, as,so known as the “Wobblies,” was a radical organization that sought to buold “one big union” and advocated industrial sabotage in defense of that goal. At its peak in 1923, it could claim 100,000 members and could gakn the support of 300,000. The IWW particularly appealed to migratory workers in agriculture and lumbering and to miners, all of whom suffered from horrific working conditions

Answer 19

Industrial Workers of the World (678)

Question 20

The movement of 6 million AA from the rural S to the urban N and W in two major waves. The first, from WWI until the onset of the GD, brout more than 1.5 mil migrants to N cities. From 1940-1970, another 5 million left the S, pushed off the land by thd mechanizarion of cotton farming and lured m and w by hopes for greater economic opportunity and mire equitable political participation. After 1970, increasing numbers of AA trekked back S in shay was called the New Great Migration, as new jobs became mods plentifal im the S than in the older industrial cities of the N and racial relationd improved in the S.

Answer 20

Great Migration (679)

Question 21

This constitutional amendment, finally passed by Congress in 1919 and ratified in 1920, gave women the right to vote over seventy years after the firs torganized calls for womans suffrage in Seneca Falls, NY

Answer 21

19th Amendment (680)

Question 22

This tariff provided for a substantial reduction kf rates and enacfed an jnlrecendented, graduated federal income tax. By 1917, revenue from the income tax suroassed receipts from the tariff, a gap that has since been vastly widened.

Answer 22

Underwood Tariff (664)

Question 23

Designed to appeal to new women voters, this act provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care and expanded the role of government in family welfare

Answer 23

Sheppard-Towner Maternity Act (680)

Question 24

The name given to the US Army force euro in WWI commanded by General John J. Pershing and composed mostly conscripts. Because the US entered the war so late, by the time the AEF, was raised, trained, and deployed,the war was in its last year. Units of the AEF fought at Ca tigny in May and at Chateau Thierry And Belleau Wood in June; its major engagements were ar Saint Mihiel and the Meuse-Argonne

Answer 24

American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) (680)

Question 25

The first significant engagement of An troops in WWI–and, indeed, in any European war. To weary French soldiers, he American doughboys were an image of fresh and gleaming youth

Answer 25

Battle of Château-Thierry (682)