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| Federal Trade Commission. worked with Labor. |
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| Barred ships to take rebate. |
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| Allowed us to see if they were overpricing rates. |
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| Meat Inspection Act of 1906 |
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| Changed the laws of meat inspection. Inspired by the release of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". |
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| Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 |
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| Reformed the overall overseeing of the Food and Drug area or America. Inspired by the release of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle". |
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| Pelican Island, FL Wildlife Preserve |
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| First ever National Park. Roosevelt reserved 125 million acres of land for national parks. |
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| Treaty of New Granada (1846) |
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| Guaranteed protection from other countries taking over modern-day Colombia. |
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| Clayton-Bulwer Treaty (1850) |
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| British build half of the canal, U.S. builds half. Jointly owned and builtm established US in top position for future. |
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| French attempt at a canal |
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| 1875 to 1889- Suez Canal Failed in mid 1800s |
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| Canceled Clayton-Bulwer Treaty. Passed in 1901. Gave US all canal rights. |
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| US/Colombia. Give $10 Million payment 99 year deal, canal was to be 6 miled wide. Colombians refused. |
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| 10 Miles wide, $10 Million, $250,000 annually. |
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Rep. WIlliam Taft (VP James Herman)
Dem. William Jennings Bryan
Taft= "The Great American Buffalo |
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| Ballinger-Pinchot Affair (1901-1911) |
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| Conflict between US Forest Service, and US Secretary Richard Ballinger. Helped to define the US Conservation movement of the 1920s. |
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| The guarantee by the US to give loans to countries in Latin America and East Asia in order to further their efforts both democratically and financially. |
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Vera Cruz Incident
(Tampico Incident)
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| Sailors from the USS Dolphin anchored in Tampico and were detained for an hour and a half |
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| Highest ranked officer ever. |
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| Arthur Zimmerman Note (Jan-Feb 1917) |
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| Coded letter sent to the Mexicans by Germany that proposed that Mexico go to war with the US. Partially led to the US declaration of war in April of that year. |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy. |
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| Led an attack through Belgium. Was supposed to take 6 days, took 6 weeks. |
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| Threw a bomb at Franz Ferdinand when he came to visit General Oskar Potiorek. Was unsuccessful in killing Franz Ferdinand. |
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| When Franz Ferdinand's car took a wrong turn, Gavrilo Princip took the opportunity to kill Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie. |
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| 1,200 deaths. 128 of them were Americans. |
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| National Defense Act (June 1916) |
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$450,000 in Mational Guard.
$500,000 to build Army. |
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| Outcome of the Wilson Hughes election |
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| The Teapot Dome Scandal (1923) |
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| The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident which took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding |
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| "Keep cool with Coolidge" |
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| Candidates of 1924 election? |
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Rep: Calvin Coolidge-382
Dem. John W. Davis-6 |
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| How did Calvin Coolidge die? |
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| Deduction in National Debt (Andrew Mellon) |
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| Reduced national debt from 24 Billion to 16 Billion in 4 years. |
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| What were the "isms" in the Age of Isms? |
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| Prohibitionism, Evolutionism, Boosterism, Nativism, Moralism, Consumerism. |
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| When was the Volstead Act? |
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| How many cars were there by 1930? |
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Rep. Herbert Hoover
Dem. Alfred Smith |
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| How many banks had closed by 1930? |
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| Japanese attack on an American ship that was docked, while the US was not at war at the time. |
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| Made by the US in response to the ongoing turmoil in Europe and Japan in 1930. |
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