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| 1299590822 | Bull Moose (688) | nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912 | 0 | |
| 1299590823 | New Nationalism (688) | Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice | 1 | |
| 1299590824 | New Freedom (688) | 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. | 2 | |
| 1299590825 | Underwood Tariff (691) | Pushed through Congress by Woodrow Wilson, this 1913 tariff reduced average tariff duties by almost 15% and established a graduated income tax | 3 | |
| 1299590826 | The Federal Reserve Act (692) | Set up as system of federal banks and gave the government the power to raise or lower intrest rates and control the money supply | 4 | |
| 1299590827 | Federal Trade Commision Act (692) | A government agency established in 1914 to prevent unfair business practices and help maintain a competitive economy | 5 | |
| 1299590828 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act (692) | New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions. | 6 | |
| 1299590829 | The Federal Farm Loan Act (693) | 1916; Made it so farm owners could get loans at better rates but if they could not pay them off the bank/ government would intervene. | 7 | |
| 1299590830 | Warehouse Act (693) | 1916 act that authorized loans on the security of staple crops, another populist idea. | 8 | |
| 1299590831 | Workingmen's Compensation Act (693) | Passed in 1916 and also known as the Ken-McGillicuddy Act, the Act established the system of compensation to federal service employees for wages lost due to job-related injuries. This Act was the predecessor to broad-coverage health insurance and "Disability Insurance". | 9 | |
| 1299590832 | Louis D. Brandeis (693) | A prominent reformer and Attorney in "Muller vs Oregon" (1908) that persuaded Supreme Court to accept constitutionality of laws protecting women workers saying conditions are harder on women's weaker bodies. Wrote book "Other People's Money and How Bankers use it" (1914) that pushed reform within the banks. Nominated in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson for Supreme Court. | 10 | |
| 1299590833 | Haiti (694) | At the Battle of Fort Riviere in this nation, rebel Cacos were defeated by US Marines under Smedley Butler | 11 | |
| 1299590834 | Victoriano Huerta (695) | He ruthlessly seized power in Mexico in 1913. President Wilson objected to his murderous methods and refused to extend diplomatic recognition to his government. He abdicated in 1914. | 12 | |
| 1299590835 | Venustiano Carranza (696) | led a revolutionary movement against Huerta with support from the US; was later formally recognized as the de facto leader of Mexico; later pressed his own war against the bandits. | 13 | |
| 1299590836 | Francisco Villa (696) | was a Mexican "Robin Hood" who hated the United States. His followers killed a total of 35 American citizens, angering the United States who sent a force to attempt to capture him. | 14 | |
| 1299590837 | ABC Powers (696) | The South American countries of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, which attempted to mediate a dispute between Mexico and the United States in 1914. | 15 | |
| 1299590838 | John J. Pershing (696) | an American general who led troops against "Pancho" Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 which was one of the longest lasting battles- 47 days in World War I. He was the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War I. \ | 16 | |
| 1299590839 | Central Powers (697) | Austria-Hungary, Germany, Ottoman Empire | 17 | |
| 1299590840 | Allied Powers (697) | - World war I alliance of Britain, France, and Russia, and later joined by Italy, the United States, and others. | 18 | |
| 1299590841 | Kaiser Wilhelm II (697) | 1888 became leader of Germany, fought to make the Germany navy superior to Britain before WW1. | 19 | |
| 1299590842 | Submarine (697) | New underwater weapon that threatened neutral shipping and apparently violated traditional norms of international law. | 20 | |
| 1299590843 | Lusitania (699) | 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. | 21 | |
| 1299590844 | Arabic (700) | 1915 -- The second British ship that Germany sunk. | 22 | |
| 1299590845 | Sussex (700) | A promise Germany made to America, after Wilson threatened to sever ties, to stop sinking their ships without warning.. | 23 | |
| 1299590846 | Charles Evans Hughes (701) | A progressive Republican, was that party's presidential nominee in 1916. Later, he was a secretary of state and chief justice of the Supreme Court. | 24 | |
| 1299590847 | He Kept Us Out of War (702) | Wilson's campaign slogan in 1916 reminding the public that they weren't entangled in WWI. | 25 | |
| 1299590848 | Richard Hofstadter (704) | A historian who wrote Age of Reform in 1955. This book proposed the concept that progressive leaders were not drawn from societies poor and downtrodden but were middle-class people threatened from above by the emerging power of new corporate elites and from below by a restless working class. | 26 | |
| 1299590849 | New Left Historians (704) | influenced by Marxism and the counter culture of the 1970's, these historians focused on social and economic conflict and finding a "usable past" to explain social problems. | 27 |
