Underwood tariff
Reduced import tariff, lobbyists (republicans) got upset
Why did the underwood tariff make people mad?
Republican lobbyists got mad because there was less protection for their goods
16th amendment
Established income tax
Federal reserve act
Addressed economic panics, gave more power to people, less centralized way of banking, prints currency, determines interest rates
Federal trade commission act
Made to control monopolies, power in executive cause can act faster
Clayton anti-trust act
Added to Sherman anti trust act, gets more specific, less discrimination
Roosevelt Corollary
Stay out of what are basically colonies (to Europe)
Why does America join the war?
sinking of lusitania
Great Britain had control of the sea and blocked trade with Germany
More economic and cultural ties to Europe
Protecting investment
George creel committee of public information
Propaganda machine
Wilson’s 14 point speech
Abolish secret treaties
Freedom of seas
No economic barriers among nations
Arms reduction
Give native people a voice when it came to colonization
6-13. Self determination for minority people throughout the world.
League of Nations to provide security
League of Nations
Wilson’s dream of peace
Sedition act
Freedom of speech unless there is treat to government Americans criticized
Espionage act
designed to protect the war effort from disloyal European immigrants Americans criticized
What was the war about?
Democracy
Why did america takeover Hawaii?
American business people in Hawaii did not want to pay import tariff
Why did we take over Cuba?
Cuba was going through a hard time financially and America business people worried so annexed
What was Americans biggest contribution to the war?
Supplies
Roosevelt
Imperialist, ‘good’ trusts, ‘bad’ trusts, no monopolies, no corruption
Lincoln steffans
Exposed corruption in major cities
Ida Tarbell
Exposed corruption in oil industry
Ida B Wells
Black women who worked against lynching
Jacob Riis
Exposed to poor conditions of tenants in New York City
Initiative, referendum, recall
More democracy
17th amendment
Direct elections for senators
Muller vs Oregon
Making laws protecting female workers
Lochner vs New York
10 hour work days
Square deal
Theodore Roosevelt's policy based on the ideas of protection of the consumer, control of large corporations, and conservation of natural resources.
Elkins Act
Lessened credit mobile type of scandals
Dollar diplomacy
the use of a country’s financial power to extend its international influence
Payne Aldrich Bill
Placed a higher tariff on many imports, Taft said he would lower tariffs
New freedom
Wilson, antitrust legislation, banking, reform, and tariff reductions
New Nationalism
Heavy government intervention for social justice
What was Wilson’s stance on the war
Neutral
What affect did the war have on civil rights?
Government put them on hold
Tampico Incident
Wilson sent troops Tom Latin America to get arrested soilders freed
Zimmerman note
If big government was feared, how did the government make the war industries, board foot administrations board and etc.
Used nationalism
19th amendment
Women get right to vote
Why did the treaty of Versailles not work
Senate did not want to ratify and Wilson did not want to compromise
Article X
Europeans, revenge against Germany
What are ‘good’ trusts?
those who were loyal to the government and were making profit
What are ‘bad’ trusts?
did not serve the public good and existed only for money and power
Why was Teddy mad at Taft?
Taft went after the US Steel which teddy thought was a good trust
What was the Shermans Anti Trust act?
authorized the federal government to institute proceedings against trusts in order to dissolve them
How did America become a world power?
America's involvement in WW1 served as a boom for economic growth. Making of guns ect \n \n Europe was fragile over the war and as the US helped the allies win the war they gained lots of influence in rebuilding Europe. WWI cemented the US as an industrial superpower capable of intervening in world affairs. America used its position as a trade partner to expand international trade and economically grow.
Explain the similarities and differences in attitudes about the nation's proper role in the world.
Isolationists held the belief that the United States should remain separate from European affairs, and rather focus on improving conditions at home. Like classism \n \n Imperialists were convinced that the United States had a responsibility to assert itself as a world power and to become involved in European affairs in order to spread and ensure democracy.
There was a general agreement that the United States should play at least some role in world affairs (whether that be through isolationist or imperialist ideals was debated upon).
explain the causes and effects of international and internal migration patterns over time.
The Great Migration in the 20th century was a movement of African Americans from southern to northern areas. The Great Migration was caused by racial prejudices and maltreatment in the south, where equality, politically, socially, and economically, did not exist
compare attitudes toward the use of natural resources from 1901 to 1920.
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the United States had no problem using up all the land they had to help the economy and booming of America. \n \n The use of natural resources became a huge part of foreign policy during this time period. The US "helped" Cuba by basically invading their land in order to have their natural resources, like sugar.