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| Washington was authorized to collect money from the sale of public lands in the sun-baked western states and then use these funds for the develpment of irrigation projects. |
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| Promoted a brand of progressivism based on Christian teachings--used religious doctrine to demand better housing and living conditions for the urban poor. |
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| Heavy fines would be imposed both on the railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them. |
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| Designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. |
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| Called for stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, and tariff reductions. |
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| The most important piece of economic legislation between the Civil War and the New Deal---Reserve Board oversaw a nationwide system of twelve regional reserve districes, each with its own central bank and began issuing paper money. |
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| Lengthened the Sherman Act's list of business practices that were deemed objectionalbe, including price discrimination and interlocking directorates. |
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| German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann had secretly proposed a German-Mexian alliance, tempting anti-Yankee Mexico with veiled promises of recovering Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. |
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| The peace settlement signed after WW1, using only 4 of the 23 origional Wilsonian points. |
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| A nationwide crusade against left-wingers whose Americanism was suspect-->Communism. |
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| An affair that involved priceless naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome (Wyoming) and Elk Hills (California)--Harding and Sinclair bribed Fall. |
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| A small group of refrom-minded intellectuals who wrote many of Roosevelt's speeches. |
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| This law provided emplyment n fresh-air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men-->jobs included reforestation, firfighting, flod control, and swamp drainage. |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
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| Eliminate price-depressing surpluses by paying growers to reduce their crop acreage. |
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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| A government lending bank designed to provide indirect relief by assisting insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and even hard-pressed state and local governments--but no loans to individuals. |
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| Washington encouraged Wall street bankers to sluice their surplus dollars into foreign areas of strategic concern to the United States-->strengthen American defenses and foreign policies while bringing further prosperity to their homeland to the themselves. |
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Social Security Act
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| Provided for federal-state unemployment insurance, security for old age-speicified categories of retired workers who recieved regular payments from Washington, and were financed by a payroll tax on both emplyers and emplyees---also for blind, physically handicapped, delingquent children, and other dependents. |
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| Roosevelt was valified for attempting to break down the delicate checks and balances among the three branches of government when he tried to pass an Act that would let him add a new justice to the supreme court. |
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| The use of government spending and fiscal policy to "prime the pump" of the economy and encourage consumer spending. |
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| Designed to assist industry, labor and the unemployed. |
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| John T. Scopes was indicted for teaching evolution in school--which=ILLEGAL. Fight over science and religion. Scopes lost and was fined $100. |
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| A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. |
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| Free passes, with their hint of bribery, were severely restricted for the railroads. |
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| Roosevelt threatened to seize the mines and operate them with federal troops-->gave miners a 10% pay boost and a working day of nine hours. |
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| A group of walthy conservatives who had organized in 1934 to fight "socialistic" New Deal schemes. |
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--Secretary of the Treasury
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| Objective was employment on useful projects during the depression. Spent $11 Billion on thousands of public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads. |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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| If growers observed acreage restrictions on specified commodities liek cotton and wheat, they would be eligible for parity payments. Also, farmers got a fairer price and a more substantial share of the national income. |
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| "Microphone Messiah", a catholic priest in Michigan who began broadcasting in 1930 and whose slogan was "Social Justice". Anti-New Deal and was eventually shut down by his ecclesiastical superiors in 1942. |
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| All countries should have equal access to any Chinese port open to trade. The U.S. sent notes to Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan, and Russia explaining the policy to prevent them from establishing separate spheres of influence in China. |
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| Additions to the Monroe Doctrine, such as: the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite "foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations." |
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| Lodge led the successful fight against American participation in the League of Nations, which had been proposed by President Woodrow Wilson at the close of World War I |
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