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| 1913 tariff reduced average tariff duties by almost 15% and established a graduated income tax |
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| Woodrow Wilson's attorney who wrote Other People's Money and How Bankers Use It |
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| established 12 regional federal reserve banks and a Federal Reserve Board appointed to regulate banking and create national stability. |
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| Federal Trade Commission Act |
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| Established to preserve competition by preventing unfair business practices and investigate complaints against companies. |
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| extending the anti trust protections of the Sherman Anti-Trust and exempting labor unions & agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints. |
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| companies that own part or all of the other companies' stock in order to extend monopoly control. |
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| Workingman's Compensation Act |
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| Passed to grant assistance to federal civil service employees during periods of disability |
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| Established an 8 hour work day for employees on trains involved in interstate commerce. Upheld in Wilson v. New |
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| The act that granted the Phillipines territorial status and promised independence as soon as stable government was achieved |
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| an arrest of American sailors by the Mexican govt that spurred Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Veracruz in april 1914. |
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| Germany, Austria-Hungary, ( later joined by Turkey and Bulgaria) |
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| This British liner was sunk in 1915, by German U-Boats, causing Wilson to issue a stern warning to the Germans, telling them not to attack unarmed vessels "without warning". |
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| German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmerman had secretly proposed a German-Mexican alliance against the US ; When the note was intercepted and published in March, it caused an uproar |
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| declared that World War I was being fought for a moral cause and calling for postwar peace in Europe |
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| Committee on Public Information |
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| government office during WW1 known popularly as the Creel Committee was dedicated to winning everyday Americans' support for war effort |
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| law prohibiting inference with the draft and other acts of national disloyalty |
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| upheld the Espionage and Sedition Acts, reasoning that freedom of speech could be curtailed when it proposed a clear and present danger ; i.e. ( shouting fire in a crowded movie theatre) |
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| Headed by Bernard Baruch ; federal agency that coordinated industrial production during WW1, setting production quotas, allocated raw materials, etc |
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| Industrial Workers of the World |
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| radical organization that sought to build "one big union" and advocated industrial sabotage in defense of that goal. |
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| Movement of 6 million AA from rural South to urban North and West in 2 major ways 1) post great depression / ww1 brought in 1.5 million 2) from 1940-1970 another 5 million left |
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| constitutional amendment that finally gave women suffrage ( right to vote) |
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| Sheppard- Towner Maternity Act |
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| designed to appeal to new women voters,this act provided federally financed instruction in maternal and infant health care and expanded role of govt |
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| American Expeditionary Force |
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| the name given to US Army force deployed to europe in ww1 |
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| Chateau- Thierry, Battle of |
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| First significant engagement of American troops in WW1 |
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| General John J Pershing led American troops effort to cut German railroad lines supplying the western front. |
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| World organization of national governments proposed by pres Wilson and established the treaty of Versailles ; worked to facilitate peaceful international cooperation |
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| called "war guilt clause" |
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| hardcore group of militant isolationists who opposed Wilsonian dream of international cooperation in the League of Nations post WW1 |
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| Mexican revolutionary general who hauled 16 young American mining engineers off a train and killed them. Also murdered 19 americans in Columbus, New Mexico |
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| State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire involved in Zimmerman note scandal |
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| head of the United States Committee on Public Information, |
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| one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World and five times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. |
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| ounding member and leader of the Industrial Workers of the World |
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| Hoover served as head of the U.S. Food Administration during World War I |
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| "main leader and strategist of the 1910s campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote" |
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| " staunch advocate of entering World War I on the side of the Allied Powers, attacking President Woodrow Wilson's perceived lack of military preparedness and accusing pacifists of undermining American patriotism." |
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