Key Terms:

• Underwood Tariff 

  • Reduced import fees

• Federal Reserve Act 

  • Kept money in reserve, inspired by the panic of 1907

• Federal Trade Commission Act 

  • Make sure large companies did not lie about their laws and ways

• Clayton Antitrust Act 

  • Made sure large companies didn’t get too much power

• Holding Companies 

  • Owning controlling interest in other companies to gain power

• Working Men's Compensation Act 

  • Insurance if workers got injured

• Adamson Act 

  • 8 hour railroad worker days + paid overtime

• Jones Act 

  • Philippines got freedom if they established a stable government

• Tampico Incident 

  • Small number of Americans captured by MX by accident

• Central Powers 

  • Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire

• Allies  

  • France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan

• U-boats 

  • German submarines that were insanely powerful

• Lusitania 

  • A GB passenger ship that was exploded by the Germans and had some Americans so now they all had beef

• Zimmerman Note

  •  A coded note wanting germany/mexico alliance

• 14 points 

• Committee on Public Information 

  • Created to influence US public opinions to support world war i

• Espionage Act 

  • Made when German hostilities grew due to many Germans in America, scared of spies

  • Prohibited leaking national security

• Schneck V. United States 

  • Imprisoned for violation of the espionage act

• War Industries Board 

  • Created to help boost supplies for the war

• Industrial Workers of the World 

  • Wobblies, labor union

• General Strike 

  • 35k seattle ship makers went on strike for more pay

• Great Migration 

  • African Americans escaping Jim Crow Laws

• 19th Amendment 

  • Women can vote

• Shepherd Towner Maternity Act 

  • Women get money after birth, promoted families

• American Expeditionary Forces 

  • Sent to europe to help the europeans  

• Battle of Chateau-Thierry 

  • Led by Pershing and they lost

• Meuse Argonne Offensive 

  • Largest AEF 47 days western front

• League of Nations 

  • International organization made to promote international peace

• Treaty of Versailles

  • Led to the end of the war but lowkey didn’t work bc wilson had beef w everyone (petty pookster)

• Irreconcilables 

  •  Senators who opposed the treaty of versailles (republicans)

People to Know:

• Luis D Brandis 

  • First Jewish supreme court justice who wilson nominated

• Victoriano Huerta 

• Francisco Villa 

• Arthur Zimmerman 

  • Wrote zimmerman note

• George Creel  

  • Propaganda spreader (journalist)

• Eugene V Debs 

  • Industrial workers of the world; arrested under the espionage act

• William D Haywood 

  • Led IWOTW

• Herbert C Hoover 

  • Created Food wheat wednesday, Meatless monday in order to conserve food for the war, other nations copied him

• Alice Paul 

  • Led women's suffrage in the national woman's party

• Henry Cabot Lodge 

  • Wilson hated him, wrote the new treaty of Versailles, but wilson voted against it