Chapter 9 and 10 Flashcards

(30 cards)

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1912 campain platform for Woodrow Wilson calling for antitrust action without threatening free competition.

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New Freedom

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An election in which voters cast ballots to select nominees for upcoming elections.

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Direct Primary

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3
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A court order prohibiting some action.

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injucntion

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4
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A program designed to ensure a basic standard of living for all citizens.

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Social Welfare Program

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5
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Law passed in 1914 to strengthen federal antitrust enforcement by spelling out businedd activities that were forbidden.

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Clayton Antitrust Act

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6
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Process by which citizens propose new laws by gathering signatures on a petition.

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Initiative

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7
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System by which cities excercise a limited amount of self rule.

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Home Rule

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8
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Process by which voters remove a public official from office before the next election.

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Recall

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9
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Relating to a city, as in municipal government.

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Municipal

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10
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A program created by Theodore Roosevelt about greater federal regulation of business and workplaces, income and inheritance taxes, and electoral reforms.

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New Nationalism

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11
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Nonviolent refusal to obey a law in an effort to change the law.

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Civil Disobedience

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12
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Person concerned with the care and protection of natrual resources

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Conservationalist

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13
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A German Submarine

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U-boat

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14
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Special war bonds sold to support the Allied cause during World War I

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Liberty Bonds

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15
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Power to make decisions about one’s own future.

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Self Determination

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16
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1919 Treaty that ended World War I

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Versailles Treaty

17
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Payment from an enemy for economc injury suffered during a war.

18
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1917 note by a German diplomat proposing an alliance with Mexico.

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Zimmerman Note

19
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President Wilson’s proposal in 1918 for a postwar European peace.

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Fourteen Points

20
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International organization, formed after World War I, that aimed to promote security and peace for all members.

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League of Nations

21
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28th President of the United States, he tried to keep the US out of World War I, proposed the League of Nations.

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Woodrow Wilson

22
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26th President of the United States, fought trusts, aided progressive reforms, built Panaman Canal, and increaded US influence overseas.

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Teddy Roosevelt

23
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27th President of the US, continued progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt, promoted “dollar diplomacy” to expand foreighn investments.

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William Howard Taft

24
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President Taft’s policy of encouraging American investments abroad.

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Dollar Diplomacy

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Woman's rights leader in the 1800's, helped organize first women's conventions, wrote the Declaration of Sentiments on women's rights in 1848
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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In WWI, Germany and Austria-Hungary
Central Powers
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In WWI, Russia, France, Great Britain, and later the United States.
Allies
28
Women's suffrage leader of early 1900's, her Congressional Union used aggressive tactics to push the Nineteenth Amendment.
Alice Paul
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Author of Progress and Poverty linking land speculation and poverty, proposed a single tax based on land value.
Henry George
30
Wrote a novel called The Jungle published in 1906 about the horrors of the meatpacking industry. This book lead to the creation of a federal meat inspection program.
Upton Sinclair