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6yaimed to ally altin american behind A and open their markets

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big sister policy

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reconciliation b.w US and and Eng

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great rapprochement

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tariff raised the average duty on imports to almost 50%

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mckinely tariff

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Cuban insurgents who sought freedom from colonial Spanish rule.

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insurrectos

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battleship to cuba for friendly As to escape if things went wrong
mysteriosly exploded

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the maine

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proclaimed to world that A had ovrethrown spanish misruling and gave cubans their freedom

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teller amendment

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volunteer reginemt of cowboys led by colonel leonard wood who helped invade cuba

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rough riders

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organization established to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area

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anti-imperialist league

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gave the puerto ricans a limited degree of popular gov

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foraker act

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USSC decreed that the const did not alwuas extend with full force to the new windfall

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insular cases

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treaty between the US and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba’s independence from foreign intervention

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platt amandmen t

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dispatched the note to the major world powers
urged tgem to respect certain chinese rights in their spheres of influence

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open door note

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chinese group murderered foreigners and christians

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boxer rebellion

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gave us free hand to build and fortify the panama canal

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hay-pauncefote treaty

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in the event of financial maldeasance by latin a , us would intervene and pay fff debts to keep europe away

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roosevelt corollany

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pledged japan and A to respect other’s territorial possessions and uphold open door in china

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root-takahira agreement

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supported missionary work

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josiah strong

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published The Influence of Sea Power upon History, 1660–1783, a revolutionary analysis of the importance of naval power

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alfred thayer mahan

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advocated a “Big Sister” policy of United States domination in Latin America.

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james b blaine

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tirred up conflict with Great Britain during the Venezuelan Crisis

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Richard Olney

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hawaiian queen who insisted that native Hawaiians should control the Islands

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liliuokalani

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spanish general who rounded ip up the population in reconcentrado camps

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“butcher” weyler

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23
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spanish minister who wrote a letter insulting McKinely

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dupuy de lome

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U.S. naval commander who defeated the Spanish fleet at the Battle of Manila Bay during the Spanish-American War

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goerge dewey

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Filipino leader who first fought against Spain and later led the Philippine insurgency against United States colonial rule.

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Emilio Aguinaldo

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civil governor in philipines w/ his “little brown brothers”

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william h taft

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author of the Open Door Notes

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John Hay

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emphasized how Jesus’ ethical teachings could remedy the problems caused by “Gilded Age” capitalism.

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social gospel

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ournalists and novelists of the Progressive Era who sought to expose corruption in big business and government

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muckrakers

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Voters proposing legislation

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Initiative

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Place lawas on the ballotnl for final approval by thr people

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Referendum

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Enable voters to remove elected officials

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Recall

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33
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system that allows voters privacy in marking their ballot choices

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Australian ballot

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34
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Louis d brandies preloaded ussc to accept thr const of laws protecting protecting women workers

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Muller v Oregon

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35
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Invalidated ny law establishing a 10 hr work dat for bakers

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Lochner v new york

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36
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Fines could be imposed on rr that fave rebates and on shippers that accepted them

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Elkins act

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37
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Preparation of meat shipped bw states would be subject to federal inspection

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Meat inspection act of 1906

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designed to prevent the aduolteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals

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Pure Food and Drug act

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39
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dam for san frans municipal water supply

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hetch hetchy valley

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40
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Tafts foreign policy
Gov encouraged Wall Street banks to invesy their surplus money in areas of strategic concern yo us

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Dollar diplomacy

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41
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Only reduced tariff for some items

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Payne Aldrich bill

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42
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wilson’s platform in the election of 1912

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new freedom

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43
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tr’s political platform in the election of 1912

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new nationalism

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44
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ida turnbell

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history of standard oil company

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45
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Henry demarest lloyd

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exposés of the Standard Oil Company

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46
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popular and witty critic of capitalism, as shown by his best known book The Theory of the Leisure Class

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thorstein veblen

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jacob a riis

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how thr other half lives (slums)

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Progressive Republican Governor of Wisconsin, this man wrested control from the corporations and gave it back to the people

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Robert m la Follette

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he oversaw numerous progressive reforms, including the passage of woman suffrage at the state level

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hiram w johnson

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fought for government regulation to protect working women and children. She was the first female factory inspector

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florence kelley

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51
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president of Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

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frances e wilard

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52
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first head of the United States Forest Service

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gifford pinchot

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53
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Father of the National Parks

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john muir

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54
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herbert croly

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“the promise of the american life”

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55
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lowered average tariff rates from about 40 percent to about 27 percent

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underwood tariff

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56
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created the Federal Reserve System,

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federal reserve act

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57
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empowered a presdentally apptd commission to turn a searchlight on indsustries engged in interstate commerce

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federal trade comission act

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lengthened the shermans acts list of illegal business practives
included price discrimination and interlocking directorties

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clayton anti trusta ct

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59
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A company that owns part or all of the other companies’ stock in order to extend monopoly control

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holding company

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

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workingmens compensation act

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established 8hr workda for all interstae commere train employeees

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adamson act

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62
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a sailors were arrested
mex apologized and freed them
further soured a-mex relationship

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tampico incident

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63
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germany, austria hungary, turkey, bulgaria

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central powers

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64
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england, france, japan, italy, russia

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allies

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65
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granted phillippines territroial status when stabvle gov ciuld be established

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jones act

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66
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german submarines

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uboats

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67
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british passenger ship sunk by germans w/ 128 a passengers

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luistania

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68
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germ goreign tried to tempt mex into an alliance w/ germ by getting back lost land

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zimmerman note

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Woodrow Wilson during World War I outlining his proposals for a postwar peace settlement.

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fourteen points`

70
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created to sell as on war and sell the world on wilsonian war aims

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committe on puvlic information

71
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made it a crime to convey information intended to interfere with the war effort

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espionage act

72
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affirmed espionage and sedition acts legalituy arguing freedom of speech dould be revooked if it wa s a fenger to the anation

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schneck v united states

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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

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war industries board

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

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industrial workers of the world

75
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10s of 1000s of blacks drawn to N for employment

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great migration

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ammendment that leagalized women’s suffrage

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19th

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act provided support to states for prenatal and infant health care.

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Sheppard-Towner Maternity

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The Germans attacked, the AEF retaliated with a counter-assault, and the enemy was repulsed and driven back commandingly

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Battle of Chateau Thierry

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the armed forces that the United States sent to Europe during World War I.

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American Expeditionary Force

80
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an international organization, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, created after the First World War to provide a forum for resolving international disputes.

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league of nations

81
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treaty that ended ww1

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treaty of versailles

82
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pwoplw eho refused to join the League of Nations under any circumstances,

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irreconcilables

83
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a Boston lawyer, he became known as the “people’s attorney” for his noted pro bono work in the public interest

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louis d. brandeis

84
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Mexican revolutionary and guerrilla leader who fought against the regimes of both Porfirio Díaz and Victoriano Huerta

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francisco villa

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wrote the zimmerman note

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arthur zimmerman

86
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headed the committee on public information

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george creel

87
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ed the establishment of the Socialist Party of America

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eugene v debs

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ounding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World

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william haywood

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led the American Relief Administration,

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herbert c hoocer

90
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authored the equal rights lamendment

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alice paul

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man who crusaded against the reaty of versialles

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henry cabot lodge

92
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made illegal the advoacy of violence to secure social change

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criminal synicalism laws

93
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open shop to stop unions bc ti was “sovietism in disguise”

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american plan

94
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quotas were reduced 2% of pop in 1890

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immigration act of 1924

95
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law that defined an intoxicating beverage as anything that contained more than one half of one percent alcohol

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volestead act

96
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a person who engages in dishonest and fraudulent business dealings

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racketeers

97
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Revolution in russia that overthrew the imperial government and placed the communits in power.

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bolshevik revolution

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those areas of the southern and midwestern US Protestant fundamentalism is widely practiced.

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bible belt

99
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a form of a religion that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture

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fundamentalism

100
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management theory uses scientific methods to assess work processes

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scientific management

101
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technique of moving assembly line

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fordism

102
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promoted resettlement of a blakcs back to their native aftica

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united negro improvememnt association

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global movement that sought a new alignment with the experience and values of modern industrial life.

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modernism

104
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a group of American writers who came of age during World War I and established their literary reputations in the 1920s

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lost generation

105
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creative expression of black culture and argued for “new negro” who was = to whites

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harlem rnaissance

106
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oversaw the palmer raids

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a mitchell palmer

107
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philispher who defend imm ritht to practice theur cutsoms and stressed the preservation identluty
said us should privde protections for ethnic cultures

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horace kallen

108
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championed alternative conceptions of immirgants in soiey and stressed the mixing of cultires

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randolph bourne

109
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teacher in , Tennessee, who was charged with violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools

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john t scopes

110
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father of scientific management

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fredrick w taylor

111
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flew 1st solo w to e conquesto of atlantic

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charles a lindberch

112
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advocate for birth control

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margret sanger

113
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Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis
sexual theory

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sigmund freud

114
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writer who promoted modernist cyases in politics and luterature
columns in baltimmore sun assailed marriage, patriotism, democraxy, ect. attacked puritans, and dissmissed S

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hl mencken

115
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“this side of paradise”
the great gatsby
commentary on the self made man

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f scott fitzgerald

116
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writer who responded to propaganda through “iceburg method”
the sun also rses, a darewell to arms
won the nobel prize for literature

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ernest hemingway

117
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poet who wrote in internationalist mode
wrote the waste land which depicts the fragmentaion and desolation of postwar society

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ts elliot

118
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writer who focued on teh displacement of the afrarian old south by a rising industrial order
the sound and the fury, as i lay dying, absalom, absalom

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william faulkner

119
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American jazz trumpeter and vocalist.

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louis armstrong

120
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young woman known for wearing short dresses and bobbed hair and for embracing freedom from traditional societal constraints.

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flappers

121
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author, anthropologist, and filmmaker portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on hoodoo.
Their Eyes Were Watching God

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zora neale hurston

122
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founder and first od the Universal Negro Improvement Association

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marcus garvey

123
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the Supreme Court ruled that a minimum wage law for women violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment because it abridged a citizen’s right to freely contract labor

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adkins v children’s hospital

124
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obliged all parties to respect “the sovereignty, the independence, and the territorial and administrative integrity of the state of China” and the commercial Open Door

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nine power treaty

125
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an agreement to outlaw war

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Kellogg-Briand Pact

126
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raised tariffs above the level set in 1913

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Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act

127
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bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding

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The Teapot Dome scandal

128
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a controversial plan in the 1920s to subsidize American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of five crops.

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McNary–Haugen bill

129
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temporarily resolved the issue of the reparations that Germany owed

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Dawes Plan

130
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Act to establish a federal farm board to promote the effective merchandising of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries.

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Agricultural Marketing Act

131
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enacted to protect U.S. farmers from foreign competition by increasing tariffs on certain foreign goods

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff

132
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stock market crashed

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black tuesday

133
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a shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States

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Hooverville

134
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U.S. government agency established by Congress to provide financial aid to railroads, financial institutions, and business corporations.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

135
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removed certain legal and judicial barriers against the activities of organized labour in the United States

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Norris–La Guardia Act

136
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veterans who gathered in dc to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.

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bonus army

137
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American politician who served as the 29th president of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.

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williM G HARDING

138
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ecretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding who became infamous for his involvement in the Teapot Dome scandal

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Albert Bacon Fall

139
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a conservative Democratic politician who was his party’s unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United States in 1924.

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john w davis

140
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Democratic Party’s presidential nominee in 1928.

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alfred smtih

141
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a group of official or unofficial advisers that helped fdr run

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brain trust

142
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1st period of fdrs presidenct wgere legislators cranked out remidal laws

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hundred days

143
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the drought-affected south central United States in the aftermath of horrific dust storms.

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Dust Bowl

144
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a federation of unions that organized workers in industrial unions

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Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

145
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A move by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to increase the size of the Supreme Court and then bring in several new justices who would change the balance of conservative and noncoservative judges

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court packing plan

146
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a macroeconomic theory of total spending in the economy and its effects on output, employment, and inflation

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keynesianism

147
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directed New Deal relief programs before serving as the eighth United States secretary of commerce

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harry hopkins

148
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Catholic priest from Michigan Whose anti-New Deal harangues in the 1930’s became so anti- Sematic, fascist, and demagogic that he was silenced by his superiors

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Father Charles Coughlin

149
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a physician who came forward with a plan to assist the elderly, who were suffering greatly during the depression
proposed giving everyone over the age of 60 a monthly pension of $200 with a provison that it must be spent in 30 days.

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Francis Townsend

150
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pushed his “Share Our Wealth” program, which would make “Every Man a King”

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huey p long

151
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The U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945 and the first woman ever appointed to the cabinet

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Frances Perkins

152
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a leader in the struggle for women’s and black equality
advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Mary McLeod Bethune

153
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He sponsored three major laws: the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, the Social Security Act of 1935, and the Housing Act of 1937.

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robert f wagner

154
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emplued 3 mil men on conservation projects

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civilian conservation corps

155
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established parity prices for basic commodities
eliminated surpluses by paying farmers to reduce theur crop

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agricultural adjustment administration

156
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shut doen banks for 5 days to evaluate them

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banking holiday

157
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provided teporary jobs during the curel winter emergency
elimintaed ollutants in navigable waters

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civil works administration

158
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created employment through public works
beautifivation
encirchment porgram

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works progress administration

159
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indistries were to create codes of fair competition
hrs of labor would be reduced to allow for more jobs
minimum wages
right to collective bargaining
baned yellpw-dog controact

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national revoery administration

160
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4 bil spent on public works projets
headed by harold ickes

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public works administration

161
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president has the power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange

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emergency banking relief act

162
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insured bank deposits
examined and supercised financial institutions

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federal deposit insurance corporation

163
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discovered how much the production of ekecticty cost so rates would be fair

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tennesse valley authority

164
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regulate sorck markets

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securties and exchange commisison

165
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provided for fed-state unemployment insurance
specified categories of retired workers recieved gov payments
provisions for the disabled

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social securit act

166
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created a new national labor relations board for admini purposes and ressrted the the right of labor to self organize and bargian collectivelty

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national labor regylations act/wagner act

167
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allows congress to set the terms of trade negotiations, have cingressional consulataions during negotioatons, and moderate the tariff code

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reciprocal trade agreement

168
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made a min wage for interstate commerace along w. max workign hrs

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fair labor standards act

169
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granted 3 bil to state for direct dole payments or wages on work projects
immediate relief for the unemployed

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federal emergency relief actf

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Act effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

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glass-steagall act