70 Cards in this Set
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Square Deal Program
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program of progressive reforms designed to protect common ppl against big busi.
-regulating trusts, arbitrating the 1902 coal strike, regulating RR, and cleaning meat and drug industries
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tafts presidency
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handpicked to be successor
cautious progressive agenda
angered progresives
busted up many trusts and reform tariff but recieved little credit bc they thought reductions were too few to satisfy progressive party
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election of 1912
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Taft(R) and Rosevelt(pr) split the vote and Woodrow Wilson (D) won -first D since civil war
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Woodrow Wilson's presidency
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southern..different progressive- less federal intervention in buissness. retirn to low tariff, anti-trust program, oversaw the federal reserve system
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Muller vs Oregon (1908)
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legislating a 10-hour work day for women
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Mann Elkins Act- 1910
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Telecommunications under ICC authority, extended the wings of the ICC to oversee telecommunications
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Federal Reserve Act
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1913 Wilson Created system of 12 Federal Reserve Banks to control the amount of currency in circulation
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jane addams
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noble peace prize, hull house focused on bringing together working poor and new immigrants
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settlement house leaders pushed...
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sanitary house codes, public playgrounds, juvenile courts, mothers pensions, workers compensation laws, prohibiting child labor and monitoring sweatshops
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lillian wald
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premoted the establishment of federal childrens bureau
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NWSA
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National Women’s Suffrage Association
1869 formed by Stanton and Anthony
Wanted a federal amendment for suffrage
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Taylorism
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Frederick Taylor believed in "scientific management": subdividing tasks and the production process
Paved way to assembly line and more efficient, less skilled work
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sherman anti trust act
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outlawed all monopolies and trusts that restrained trade. 1902 trust buster under teddy
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Clayton Anti-trust Act
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1914 congress passes, stopped antitrust laws from being used against unions
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Federal Trade Commission
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1914 Enforced antitrust laws and tough on companies using deceptive advertising
Had the power to undertake private investigations of businesses
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Clayton Anti-trust Act
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stopped antitrust laws from being used against unions, ammended to allow for broad judicial review of the FTD's decsion -weakening freedom of action
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Alice Paul
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1910 quaker social workerbroke away from NAWSA to found her own, more radical feminist group, the National Woman's Party- chained themselves to public buildings and hunger strikes
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Amendment 19
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1920 Under Wilson, Equal sufferage-sex. No person can be denied the right to vote due to their sex.
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Margaret Sanger
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Considered the founder of Planned Parenthood, was imprisoned for opening the first birth control information clinic in Baltimore in 1916
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Adamson Act (1916)
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This law established an 8 hour work day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime. It was the first federal law regulating the hours of workers in private companies, and was upheld by the supreme court case Wilson v. New (1917).
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WWI sides and reasoning
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Triple Entente: Britain France Russia. Central powers: germany, austria hungary and italy
Assasination of the austro-hungarian throne by a serbian nationalist
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Wilson's plan for peace
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14 points, freedom of seas, equality of trade, open covenants, right of self determination, league of nations=14 (most significant provided nations oppurtunity to talk instead of fight)
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john j. pershing
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u.s. general who led troops to capture villa in Mexico
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Total War
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total means, total effort, total ends - the whole population is effected by and involved in the war
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George Creel
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was a muckracker who was head of the Committee on Public Information
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NAACP
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1910
founded by Ida B. Wells and WEB DuBois
interracial + relied on wealthy whites
protested "the birth of a nation"
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MONKEY TRIAL
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conviction of John Scopes for teaching evolution in science class in tennessee
william jennings brian takes him to court 1925
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Marcus Garvey
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from Jamaica. one of the first intellectuals to condemn participation in the war.
"Look what white civilization does to each other."
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immigration act
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1924
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Teapot Dome
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a federally owned piece of land in Wyoming; it was the center of a government scandal in 1921 when President Harding's Secretary of the Interior accepted bribes in return for allowing oil companies to drill for oil there in 1921
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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1930 act that raised U.S. tariffs on imported goods to record levels
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Glass-Steagall
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US began to print paper money that wasn't backed by gold
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Andrew Mellon
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Said let Depression run its course till recovery.
Assumed that it would reach a point where people would start buying again; this didn't happen.
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McNary- Haugen Bill
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sought to keep agricultural prices high by authorizing government to buy up and sell surpluss overseas government losses made up by special tax on farmers
Coolidge vetoed
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First New Deal
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19 33- 35 Roosevelt - Banking and Finance Reform Relief and conservation programs Agricultural Initiatives Industrial Recovery
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National Industrial Recovery Act
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dealt with economic recovery and public works project. created the PWA, granting 3.3 bil for new gov buildings and highway construction. counter part to the AAA, controversial part created the NRA. did not help much. later encouraged allowing unions
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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1933, provided conservation related jobs for young men aged 18-25
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Dust Bowl
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Dry weather made a drought, happened in TX panhandle(Great plains) , huge dust storm, caused dislocation of pop., migrant workers left to go to Cali 1932-35
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Roosevelt recovery and legacy
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the new deal began to let fed into our lives in 1930s, still in our lives today
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Social Security Act
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a 1935 law that established old-age insurance, centered around self finaced pension fund 65+ workers payed taxes to fund this. also set up a shared fed state unemployment insurance program. inagurated fed grant in aid for dependent children, blind and old age assistance. left out domestic…
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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built a series of dams along the Tennessee River to prevent deforestation and provide cheap electricity to a seven-state region
put the government in the business of selling electricity.
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FDIC
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Insures individual bank deposits for up to $250,000
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Wagner Act of 1935
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Prevents employers from interfering when workers try to organize unions and require employers to bargain with unions in good faith
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Triangle Fire
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A factory fire in NYC on March 25, 1911 one of the deadliest industrial disasters in the history of NYC. Killed many people because there were no fire exits. Many jumped to their deaths. Led to legislation requiring improved factory and work safety.
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The Great Gatsby
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F. Scott Fitzgerald 1925(Modernism)
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Adolph Hitler
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1933
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FDR's new deals
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1st 32'
2nd 35&36
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rise of consumerism
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ford model T, ppl buy on margin, housing boom, advertising agencies start, radio, sports
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Palmer raids
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Attempts by the US departments of justice to arrest and deport radical leftists, especially anarchists from the US
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anti immigration law
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1921-24 sets quotas. switches immgration from S/E europe to mexico and africa
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16th Ammendment
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1913 Gives Congress the power to tax income (individuals and businesses)
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Scandals during Hardings presidency
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- sex
- Teapot Dome (companies lent Fall money for secret oil leases) FALL
dies food poisoning- coollidge come- the hoover
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the ohio gang
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cut taxes on riches trickle down theory
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langston hughes
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impersonal I
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Crisis (Magazine)
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NAACP magazine created to show the terrible state of racism in America
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john salon
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paintings of american life
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georgiokey
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artist
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Carrie Chapman Catt
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head of NAWSA
makes group more moderate
believes women are the only reliable group that has the moral strength to clean up society
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Mary Church Terrell
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1896 Teacher, lobbyist, first president of the NAACW which focused on child care and wage equality
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espionage act
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the act or practice of spying
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sedition act
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speaking in ways that cause other people to work against a government about germany
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jimbery note
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note england intercepted about mexico
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trust busting
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"Trust-Busting," a term that referred to President Theodore Roosevelt's policy of prosecuting monopolies, or "trusts," that violated federal antitrust law
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UMW
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arbitration Dr.
gives increase and shortens work days
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Square deal
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TR's promise of fairness to both businesses and labor
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17 ammendment
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directly appointed 2 senators by populist
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18 ammendement
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1919 prohibition, 21st stops this
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19 ammendement
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women access to the ballot 1920
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20th ammenment
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change in inaguration day 1933
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WCTU
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Women Christian Temperance Union
Band Alcohol
Carrie A. Nation
Frances Willard
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Study Guide: Final Exam