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| 3801457613 | Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, Clayton Antitrust Act, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize | 0 | |
| 3801457614 | William Jennings Bryan | Principle figure in Populist Party - served as Sec. of State under Wilson (resigned in protest of WWI) - prosecutor in the Scopes Trial | 1 | |
| 3801458943 | Herbert Croly | He wrote the The Promise of American Life (1909) where he called for an activist fed govn't of the kind Hamilton had advocated in the 1790s but one that would serve all citizens, not merely the capitalist class. | 2 | |
| 3801458944 | Eugene V. Debs | Five time presidential candidate of the Socialist party jailed in 1918 for giving speech in which he urged workers not to support the war effort | 3 | |
| 3801460327 | Arsene Pujo | was a member of the United States House of Representatives best known for chairing the "(name) Committee", which sought to expose an anti-competitive conspiracy among some of the nation's most powerful financial interests. | 4 | |
| 3801460328 | Louis D. Brandeis | wrote the book Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use it. Further showed the problems of the American banking system. Wilson nominated him to the supreme court making him the first Jew in that position. | 5 | |
| 3801462275 | Victoriano Huerta | He was a Mexican military officer and President of Mexico who was also leader of the violent revolution that took place in 1913. His rise to power caused many Mexicans to cross the border as well as angering the United States who saw him as a dictator. | 6 | |
| 3801462276 | Venustiano Carranza | He became president of Mexico in 1914. He succeeded the harsh President Huerta. He at first supported Wilson's sending General Pershing into Mexico to look for the criminal Pancho Villa, but when he saw the number of troops he became outraged and opposed Wilson. | 7 | |
| 3801462277 | Francisco Villa | A Mexican rebel who crossed into New Mexico and killed 18 Americans | 8 | |
| 3801463574 | John J. Pershing | Commander of American Expeditionary Force of over 1 million troops who insisted his soldiers fight as independent units so US would have independent role in shaping the peace | 9 | |
| 3801463575 | Kaiser Wilhelm II | Who led Germany during the last decade of the 1800s and most of World War I? | 10 | |
| 3801463576 | Charles Evans Hughes | A reformist Republican governor of New York, who had gained fame as an investigator of malpractices by gas and insurance companies and by the coal trust. He later ran against Wilson in the 1916 election. | 11 | |
| 3801465038 | New Nationalism | Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice | 12 | |
| 3801465039 | New Freedom | Democrat Woodrow Wilson's political slogan in the presidential campaign of 1912; Wilson wanted to improve the banking system, lower tariffs, and, by breaking up monopolies, give small businesses freedom to compete. | 13 | |
| 3801465040 | Progressive party | Also known as the "Bull Moose Party", this political party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912. After Taft won the Republican Party's nomination, Roosevelt ran on the Progressive party ticket. | 14 | |
| 3801466261 | Bull Moose | nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912 | 15 | |
| 3801466262 | The Promise of American Life | Written by Herbert Croly in 1909. The promise - the vision of a better future for everybody. This would be governed by the power of the state because they couldn't count on business to do it. When he wrote this book, there was a fear that big business would be a monster that would destroy liberty. | 16 | |
| 3801466263 | Underwood Tariff | Law passed by Congress in 1913 that substantially reduced tariffs and made up for the lost revenue by providing for a graduated income tax | 17 | |
| 3801467581 | Sixteenth Amendment | The constitutional amendment adopted in 1913 that explicitly permitted Congress to levy an income tax. | 18 | |
| 3801469033 | Federal Reserve Act | a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply | 19 | |
| 3801469034 | Federal Trade Commission Act | A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy, support antitrust suits | 20 | |
| 3801470593 | Clayton Act | amended Sherman Act by outlawing exclusive dealing and tie-in arrangements, helped unions. | 21 | |
| 3801470594 | Federal Farm Loan Act | Passed by president Wilson in 1916. Was originally a reform wanted by the Populist party. It gave farmers the chance to get credit at low rates of interest. | 22 | |
| 3801472494 | Seamen's Act | Act that was designed to improve the safety and security of United States seamen. Proposed by La Follette. | 23 | |
| 3801472495 | Federal Employees' Compensation Act | Law that provides benefits to employees who have suffered work-related injuries or occupational diseases | 24 | |
| 3801473384 | Jones Act | Promised Philippine independence. Given freedom in 1917, their economy grew as a satellite of the U.S. Filipino independence was not realized for 30 years. | 25 | |
| 3801473385 | Virgin Islands | Caribbean territory purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1917 | 26 | |
| 3801475197 | Tampico incident | An arrest of American sailors by the Mexican government that spurred Woodrow Wilson to dispatch the American navy to seize the port of Vera Cruz in April 1914. Although war was avoided, tensions grew between the US and Mexico. | 27 | |
| 3801475198 | ABC Powers | The South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, which attempted to mediate a dispute between Mexico and the United States in 1914. | 28 | |
| 3801475199 | Sarajevo | The Balkan town in the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand, heir to the throne | 29 | |
| 3801476456 | Central Powers | In World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies. | 30 | |
| 3801476457 | Allies | Britain, France, and Russia- Later joined by Italy | 31 | |
| 3801476465 | Lusitania | A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war. | 32 | |
| 3801478059 | U-boat | German submarine | 33 | |
| 3801478060 | Sussex pledge | A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning. | 34 |
