Studied by 0 people
Income tax
________- Make up for lost revenue.
Election of 1912
Split votes w/ Roosevelt
1910
Roosevelt
1912
Woodrow Wilson
Pinchot accused Ballinger
Allow corporations to abuse land
1902
Nominated to Supreme Court
1916
Nominated to Supreme Court
1908
Israel Zangwill
1895
Booker T. Washington
1881
Booker T. Washington
1913
Lowered customs duties
Income tax
Make up for lost revenue
1914
Trustbusting
1913
Federal Reserve
Election of 1912
Progressive Reform candidates
Progressive Reform
Greater govt involvement
Wilson administration
New taxation + regulation + banking systems
William Howard Taft
The 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices
Election of 1912
Democratic Governor Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey defeated Republican President William Howard Taft and former president and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt
New Nationalism
Theodore Roosevelt's program in his campaign for the presidency; called for a national approach to the country's affairs and a strong president to deal with them
Woodrow Wilson
An American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921
New Freedom
Political ideology of Woodrow Wilson, enunciated during his successful 1912 presidential campaign, pledging to restore unfettered opportunity for individual action and to employ the power of government in behalf of social justice for all
Old Guard
A faction that is unwilling to accept new ideas
Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
Colliers magazine accused Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of shady dealings in Alaskan coal lands
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
An American jurist and legal scholar who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932
Louis Brandeis
An American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939
"Bull Moose" Progressive Party
A third party in the United States formed in 1912 by former president Theodore Roosevelt after he lost the presidential nomination of the Republican Party to his former protégé rival, incumbent president William Howard Taft
New Immigration
Came largely from southern and eastern Europe; largely Catholic and Jewish in religion, the new immigrants came from the Balkans, Italy, Poland, and Russia
The Melting Pot
A metaphor describing a fusion of nationalities, cultures and ethnicities
Booker T. Washington
A dominant leader in the African-American community and of the contemporary black elite
WEB Du Bois
An American sociologist, socialist, historian and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist
Tuskegee Institute
A private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama
Plessy v. Ferguson
A landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine
Nineteenth Amendment
An amendment to the Constitution of the United States adopted in 1920; guarantees that no state can deny the right to vote on the basis of sex
Underwood Tariff
Reduced average rates from 40 percent to 25 percent, greatly enlarged the free list, and included a modest income tax
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
A piece of legislation, passed by the U.S. Congress and signed into law in 1914, that defines unethical business practices, such as price fixing and monopolies, and upholds various rights of labor
Federal Reserve Act
Implemented to establish economic stability in the U.S. by introducing a central bank to oversee monetary policy
Note 
Flashcard (65)