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| Democrat. 2 term President. militant Progressive. president of Princeton U. gov. of NJ. Originally from south. racist. Attacked trusts. WWI. | ||
| Progressive Party Platform. said Government. should control bad trusts and leave good trusts alone. | ||
| Democratic Platform. wanted to breakup all trusts. | ||
| Wrote a book, Promise of American Life, which gave TR the idea for his New Nationalism platform. | ||
| Reduced import fees and enacted a graduated income tax | ||
| income taxes. saying the congress can have the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes. | ||
| congressman chaired a House committee which traced the tentacles of the "money monster" into the hidden vaults of American banking and business | ||
| associate justice on the supreme court. first Jewish member of the supreme court. | ||
| Made in 1913. created new Federal Reserve board which over saw a system of 12 regional reserve districts. each with its own central bank and had the power to issue paper money. | ||
| 1914. empowered a president-appointed position to investigate the activities of trusts and stop unfair trade practices such as unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, & bribery. | ||
| lengthened the sherman anti-trust act's list of practices that were questionable or vague. allowed picketing by labor union members. exempted labor unions from being called trusts. | ||
| 1916. made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest. | ||
| 1915. required good treatment of american sailors. but merchant freight rates soared as a result of the cost to maintain their health. | ||
| 1916. Granted assistance of federal civil service employees if the got injured on the job. | ||
| 1916. created 8 hour workday with overtime pay for RR workers. | ||
| 1916. granted full territorial status to the philippines and promised independence as soon as a stable government was established. | ||
| 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. | ||
| leader of the Constitutional party in Mexico back by President Wilson over Huerta; recognized as the Mexican President in 1915, he managed to put through a new liberal constitution in 1917 but frequently clashed with rebel bandits, among them those led by Pancho Villa | ||
| leader of a rebel army in Mexico. (Had Robin Hood ideas). wilson considered supporting him. Wilson abandoned idea after Villa's military position deteriorated; Villa was upset by this "betrayal" and began staging raids across the U.S. border; killed 33 Americans total. convict. clashed with carranza and huerta. | ||
| US general who chased Villa over 300 miles into Mexico but didn't capture him | ||
| Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy(at first), Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire, ect. great deal of troubles. againist allies. WWI. | ||
| WWI. againist central powers. Triple Entente. UK, Britain, France, Russia, Japan, Belgium, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania. ect. | ||
| Bombastic and impetuous. German emperor. ineffective war leader. disliked by americans. had a lot of austria-hungary support in WWI. | ||
| british passenger liner. was sunk by german U-boats. There were 1198 deaths. 128 were americans. germans did warn americans by issuing flyers that the ship may be torpedoed. | ||
| ship the germans sank in 1915. killed 2 americans and numerous others. germans said they wouldn't sink anymore unarmed ships. | ||
| Germans sank another ship w/o warning. this made the creation of the sussex pledge. | ||
| said that germans they couldnt sink anymore ships w/o warning. much less effective for Germans. this was so the us could get british to stop their blockade. | ||
| republican Candidate of 1916. evasive. very close election. but he lost to wilson. |
