Unit 7: Important Events

Question 1

16th Amendment

Answer 1

allowed congress to pass an income tax

Question 2

19th Amendment

Answer 2

allowed women to vote

Question 3

Elkins Act

Answer 3

allows the ICC to impose fines on the railroad for offering to carry some peoples stuff for less money.

Question 4

Philippine Insurrection

Answer 4

the phillipine revoloution against the US after we got their islands from the spanish in the spanish american war.

Question 5

Open Door Notes

Answer 5

essentially china was divided up into areas that could be traded with by only one country. america thought that sucked, so we came up with this policy, everyone can trade with everyone

Question 6

Desert Land Act

Answer 6

simmilar to the homestead act, meant to draw people in to the arid western states. you where allowed to claim more land, and there was no requirement to live on the land,which lead to fraud.

Question 7

Pinchot-Ballinger Affair

Answer 7

a dispute over conservationism between two politicians that contributed to the split if the republican party

Question 8

Muller v. Oregon

Answer 8

an act that limited the maximum hours of women working. good for labor people, bad for feminists.

Question 9

Pure Food & Drug Act

Answer 9

federal fod and drug administration law, preventing nasty food and stuff from being sold.

Question 10

Mann-Elkins Act

Answer 10

extends the ICC powers to regulate telocomunication industry. also increased the ICC powers over railroads.

Question 11

Pan American Conference

Answer 11

a trade meeting to discuss trade between the US and south american countries.

Question 12

Panama Canal

Answer 12

a canal dug through the newly formed coutnry of panama to more easily connect the US ports on the west coast to the east coast and europe.

Question 13

Great White Fleet

Answer 13

the united states navy, which completed a circumnavigation of the world under orders from roosovelt.

Question 14

The Lusitania

Answer 14

a british ocean liner that was sunk by a german submarine while travelling between the US and Brittain during WW1. the ship was sunk because the British where transporting armaments onboard, but there where also US passengers, so the US got pissed about it.

Question 15

Federal Farm Loan Act

Answer 15

law aimed at increasing available credit to rural farmers

Question 16

Espoinage/Sedition Acts

Answer 16

espionage-cant talk shit about the army/interfere with recruitment or operations. pretty much directly anti free speech.
sedition-extended espionage to cover talking crap about the military or expressing anti war opinions.

Question 17

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 17

created federal reserve, the central banking system of the country, allowed it to control circulation of cash monet.

Question 18

17th Amendment

Answer 18

established direct election of senators by popular vote.

Question 19

U.S. V. Northern Securites

Answer 19

the first major anti-trust suit, against northern securities, the railroad company.

Question 20

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 20

prevented nasty ass meat from being sold, ensured shit was kept sanitary. meat was super nasty.

Question 21

Root-Takahira Agreement

Answer 21

essentially, japan and the US agreed to each others recent conquerings. they acknowledged our control of phillipines and hawai, we let them do whatever they want.

Question 22

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Answer 22

added leitamacy to the antitrust abilities of the nation. also sorted out many of the issues brought up by the sherman anti trust act. was much better and actually toasted some of the trusts.

Question 23

Forest Reserve Act

Answer 23

set aside forests as national forrests, protecting them. hoo raa, enviromentalism.

Question 24

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Answer 24

lowered terrifs on many goods entering the US

Question 25

Lochner v. New York

Answer 25

made it illegal for buisnesses to set a maximum number of hours that many proffesions could have, unless there was an actual reason for the limit.

Question 26

Food & Drug Administration

Answer 26

federal program to regulate food companies and protect public safety from the big food companies who where being hella disgusting.

Question 27

White House Conference

Answer 27

a conference at the white house aimed at discussing a topic that is important to the public.

Question 28

War Industries Board

Answer 28

a board that essentially took over the various industries of the country in order to turn them into war manufacturies.

Question 29

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 29

essentialy, saying that european power will have to go through the US in order to deal with south american countries. they cant just attack south america.

Question 30

War Labor Board

Answer 30

created to ensure labour reliability during wartime. composed of representatives from a bunch of buisnesses.

Question 31

Creel Committee

Answer 31

essentially the propoganda department, sought to influence the country in support of the war.

Question 32

Zimmerman Note

Answer 32

the note sent from germany to mexico asking them to join the war on the side of germany. germany wanted US to be forced to fight a war in their homeland to keep them from getting involved in the war. the note is what finally brought the US into the war.

Question 33

Treaty of Versalles

Answer 33

ended world war 1, forced germany to accept massive war payments, leaving their economy trashed. also disarmed germany, and limited military power in the world.

Question 34

Federal Reserve System

Answer 34

Makes it so the banks have a big bank makes it so they don’t have too much money so the economy only shits the bed every 20 years.

Question 35

18th Amendment

Answer 35

Prohibited alchoholic beverages. Prohabishun.

Question 36

Hepburn Act

Answer 36

Another act against railroads, restricting their rates and resisting how much they could actually do, passed in 1906.

Question 37

Underwood Tariff

Answer 37

Lowered the tariff for the first time and made an income tax so rich people get less monay.

Question 38

Adamson Act

Answer 38

Part of the new initiative for workers, giving them 8 hour workdays and a bunch of other rights

Question 39

Newlands Act

Answer 39

United States federal law that funded irrigation projects for the arid lands of 20 states in the American West.

Question 40

Adkins v. Children’s Hospital

Answer 40

Supreme court case that made minimum wage for women unconstitutional.

Question 41

Danbury Hatters Case

Answer 41

Also known as Loewe v. Lawlor, it had the effect of outlawing secondary boycotts as violative of the Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 42

Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Answer 42

Established the Panama Canal Zone that was pretty much U.S. territory.

Question 43

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory

Answer 43

Managers making their workforce work better through accidental manslaughter. They didn’t even have to pay anything out to the families because of corruption.

Question 44

The Sussex Pledge

Answer 44

Made Germany promise to be super nice about killing people with submarines. It was after they bombed the Sussex ship and Wilson made them sign this pledge.

Question 45

Federal Trade Commission (FTC)

Answer 45

Established to make fair trade and prevent monopolies in things like railroads. Lead to railroads buying newspapers.

Question 46

Fourteen Points

Answer 46

Wilson’s super idealistic ideas about League of Nations and everyone being together. Everyone just wanted a part of Germany.

Question 47

League of Nations

Answer 47

The failed League that was super ineffective and a horrible piece of foreign affairs. We weren’t a part of it though so it was fine.