Abeka 8th grade History 16.4-16.5

''Into the Twentieth Century''

William Howard Taft

became president after Theodore Roosevelt.

New Mexico and Arizona

were admitted to the union as the 47th and 48th states.

Mann-Elkins act

increase the government power to regulate businesses, also strengthen the interstate commerce commission by giving it greater control over railroad freight rates and by bringing the supervision of telephone, telegraph, and cable companies under its control.

Rule of reason

the interpretation of Sherman antitrust act was what?

Nicaragua

faced financial problems, political unrest, and threat of revolution.

William Howard Taft

won the election of 1908

Dollar diplomacy

when President Taft tried to avoid Roosevelts big stick policy by encouraging American businessman to invest in Latin America and the far East this approach was called what?

1912

year of the sinking of the titanic?

Progressive party

this party drew up a platform supporting a new nationalism which included more government regulation of businesses, Women suffrage, a lower tariff, An eight hour workday, Child labor laws, and an aggressive conservation program.

Bull moose party

the progressive party was popularly known as what?

Woodrow Wilson

won the election of 1912?

Underwood Simmons act

the first significant tariff revision since before the Civil War

16th amendment

Gave Congress the power to tax personal incomes

17th amendment

Call for the direct election of US senators by voters.

Federal reserve act

created a privately controlled central bank system under the sponsorship of the government

federal reserve

had almost complete control over the nation's money supply.

Federal trade commission

empowered to investigate businesses engaged in interstate commerce into issues cease and desist orders against what is deemed to be unfair trading practices.

Clayton antitrust act

Similar to the Sherman antitrust act this act further regulated businesses?

Virgin Islands

provided an important base for defense of the panama canal.

Francisco Pancho Villa

whom did John Jay Black Jack Pershing try to capture going deep into Mexico?

Religious modernism

taught the Bible was a collection of myths, legends, and a few historical facts,

Germany

where did religious modernism begin?

Charles Darwin

popularized the theory of evolution and natural selection.

Karl Marx

known as the Father of Communism?

Socialism

idea that a government should control all resources on behalf of the public.

Communism

are utopian classless society were government was unnecessary.

John Dewey

the father of progressive education in America.

Sigmund Freud

founder of modern psychology

Psychoanalysis

denies human personality and reduces humans to a bundle of subconscious drives and fears.

1900-1920

years of the progressive era.

1903

year of the Wright brothers first powered flight

1914

year of the panama canal