HIST 1312 1st EditionExam 2 Study GuideQuestion one Reforms under Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson Looking for the significance in the answersRoosevelt progressive (domestic)3Cs1. Control of corporations Anthracite coal strikeThe workers want to go from 12 hrs a day to 11 and same pay. They get this.First president to ever do anything to help labor Trustbusting (8yrs/45 cases)Trust will start to be broken up. Northern securities is the first to be broken up Northern securities100% of railroads in northwest. Board of directors is broken up2. Consumerism Upton Sinclair the jungleRoosevelt is eating as he reads it Meat inspection actRegulation of meat that is sold Pure food and drug actCovers drugs and everything you can getWhat has been tested to be safe and approved is what is actually being sold3. Conservation Scientific management- PinchotPinchot is found to regulate the ecosystems of the national parks National parksMore and more lands are put aside for future generationsWet lands and marshlands are also put aside Fish and wildlife preservesTakes care of the wet lands and marshland Water resource managementBuilding of reservoirs, man made lakes, creation of dams, etcTaft 1. Trustbusting- standard oil (4yrs/90 cases)Standard oil will be broken upBy the time tafts time is up, there are no more trusts to break up 2. Postal savings bank (1911) 3. Ballinger Pinchot affairCauses a rift between Taft and RooseveltIllegal mining on national landsPinchot goes to Taft, nothing is done to Ballinger, and the story is leaked to the press and Taft is fired 4. Payne Aldrich tariffCauses a. Rift between Taft and RooseveltTaft asks congress to look at the tariff and was told by Roosevelt not toIncrease overall rates by a tiny percentage and 16th amendment was proposedWilson 16th amendmentIncome tax and a lower tariffAllows congress to tax your income Underwood-Simmons tariffPayne Aldridge tariff rates go from 68-69% to 20% 17th amendmentDirect election of senatorsReduces the power of the states and that power is given to the people 18th amendmentProhibitionNo manufacture, selling, or transport of alcoholic beverages 19th amendmentWomen's right to vote Federal reserve actOne of the most significant actsCreated with 12 equal branches that were spread out in different geographic rhinosThree functions were to provide elasticity in money supply which is achieved by either increasing or decreasing interest rates. Second was to be able to move funds from one area of the country to the other very quickly during times of economic emergency. Third was to act as alender of last resort for banks. Warehouse actSub treasury for farm produce. Farmers could put agricultural goods into storage, hold onto their voucher, and then sell when prices went back up Clayton anti trust actMakes sure trusts don't show up againMade officials of corporations personally liable if the companies they worked with once again started to engage in monopolistic practicesThey could be put in jail and they could be fined personally if found guilty Child labor actProhibited children under the age of 14 from working in inherently dangerous positionsOpens more jobs for adults, and adults will get paid more Multiple choice questionsBoxer rebellion and the two open door notes sent by John Hayes to the leaders in EuropeFirst note says we should have free unlimited trade in china (before boxer rebellion)Boxer rebellion took place Second open door note after the rebellion said the same thing except it was saying that was how it was going to be. Giving up extraterritoriality Second open door note protected and preserved China's sovereignty and Mckinley's assassinationRoosevelt foreign policy Speak softly carry a big stick Roosevelt corollary means us will be police men of Western Hemisphere Russo Japanese war where he mediates between the two countries to prevent war First American president to get a Nobel peace prize French get ________Panama Canal Hay Pauncefote treaty Between us and British Terms are us released earlier treaty from 1850s that said we would behold a canal together or not at all under the condition that we would charge British ships no more than what we charged us ships for the tolls Hay Herran treaty Between us and Colombia Under the terms, the us would give 10 mil to Columbia and 250,000 a year in events from thetolls and us was given a six mile strip of land Was not ratified by Colombia Hay binau Varilla treaty Between us and panama Ten mil to panama for the canal, 250,000 a year plus the us would get 10 miles of land for the canal Mosquito carries yello fever and now spraying for MosquitosEngineers _____________Gentleman's agreement Japan restricts immigration to us, us puts pressure on California to allows Japanese into the schools againGreat white fleetTaft had dollar diplomacy in his foreign policyWilson we sign a treaty to build a transisthmus canal is we want to Mexican revolution created animosity between us and Mexico in the years before. Ww1Purchase of U.S. Virgin Islands Washington naval conference has a ratio in place. Every 5 British means 5 us means 3 japanTeapot dome scandal 25,000 dollar bribe to allow illegal miningKellogg grand pactQuestion twoWw1BackgroundImperial ambitions 100 yrs prior to ww1 Europe had been colonizing but no longer could so they turned inwardNational aspirations Development of national pride and identity that it gets in he he way or diplomacySecret alliances Serbia with Russia with France Austria Hungarian empire with Germany with Ottoman EmpireAssassination of archduke 60 day period where diplomacy is attempted but after those days, Germany attacks France but goes through neutral Belgium in August 1914 which pulls Great Britain into the war since they are the guaranteeor of neutrality in BelgiumUs neutralityTench warfare Use of mustard gas which is banned internationally after the warU boats German subs Sinking of ships even passenger shipsElection of 1916 Wilson kept us out of warApril 1917 Zimmerman telegram brings the us into the war Germans try to get Mexicans to attack the us border to keep us out of the war in EuropeConvoy system Works for us and not British because we have sonar and can find the subs and use depth charges to destroy themWilson's 14 pts Self determination for all people No war guilt No war reparations Creation of the League of