Chapter 9 and 10 Flashcards
(30 cards)
1912 campain platform for Woodrow Wilson calling for antitrust action without threatening free competition.
New Freedom
An election in which voters cast ballots to select nominees for upcoming elections.
Direct Primary
A court order prohibiting some action.
injucntion
A program designed to ensure a basic standard of living for all citizens.
Social Welfare Program
Law passed in 1914 to strengthen federal antitrust enforcement by spelling out businedd activities that were forbidden.
Clayton Antitrust Act
Process by which citizens propose new laws by gathering signatures on a petition.
Initiative
System by which cities excercise a limited amount of self rule.
Home Rule
Process by which voters remove a public official from office before the next election.
Recall
Relating to a city, as in municipal government.
Municipal
A program created by Theodore Roosevelt about greater federal regulation of business and workplaces, income and inheritance taxes, and electoral reforms.
New Nationalism
Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change the law.
Civil Disobedience
Person concerned with the care and protection of natrual resources
Conservationalist
A German Submarine
U-boat
Special war bonds sold to support the Allied cause during World War I
Liberty Bonds
Power to make decisions about one’s own future.
Self Determination
1919 Treaty that ended World War I
Versailles Treaty
Payment from an enemy for economc injury suffered during a war.
Reparations
1917 note by a German diplomat proposing an alliance with Mexico.
Zimmerman Note
President Wilson’s proposal in 1918 for a postwar European peace.
Fourteen Points
International organization, formed after World War I, that aimed to promote security and peace for all members.
League of Nations
28th President of the United States, he tried to keep the US out of World War I, proposed the League of Nations.
Woodrow Wilson
26th President of the United States, fought trusts, aided progressive reforms, built Panaman Canal, and increaded US influence overseas.
Teddy Roosevelt
27th President of the US, continued progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt, promoted “dollar diplomacy” to expand foreighn investments.
William Howard Taft
President Taft’s policy of encouraging American investments abroad.
Dollar Diplomacy