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| 2018829725 | Election of 1912 | - Woodrow Wilson (democrat)- campaigned for small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets. Shunned social welfare proposals and pinned their economic faith on competition -Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive Republican)- he felt as "strong as a bull moose", favored continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions, campaigned for woman suffrage and a broad program of social welfare. -William Howard Taft (Republican) -Roosevelt's Progressive Party soon died out due to lack of officials elected to state and local offices. | 0 | |
| 2018829726 | Woodrow Wilson | believed the President should play a dynamic role, convinced that Congress could not function properly unless the president provided leadership | 1 | |
| 2018829727 | "Triple Wall of Privilege" | -the tariff, the banks, the trusts (Wilson) | 2 | |
| 2018829728 | The Tariff | Congress, moved, passed the Underwood Tariff Bill and enacted a gradual income tax | 3 | |
| 2018829729 | The Banks | -June 1913, president appeared again, endorsed Democratic proposals for a decentralized bank in government hands -signed the Federal Reserve Act- The new Federal Reserve Board, appointed by the president, oversaw a nationwide system of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks, guaranteed a substantial level of public control, empowered to issue paper money, Federal Reserve Notes, backed by commercial paper. -the amount of money in circulation could be increased as needed for the requirements of business. | 4 | |
| 2018829730 | The Trusts | -1914, appeared once more -Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914- empowered a presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on industries engaged in interstate commerce. -Clayton Anti-trust Act of 1914- price discrimination and interlocking directorates, conferred long-overdue benefits on labor, sought to exempt labor and agricultural organizations from antitrust prosecution. | 5 | |
| 2018829731 | Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 | -made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest | 6 | |
| 2018829732 | Warehouse Act of 1916 | -authorized loans on the security of staple crops | 7 | |
| 2018829733 | La Follette Seamen's Act of 1915 | -required decent treatment and a living wage on American merchant ships | 8 | |
| 2018829734 | Workingmen's Compensation Act of 1916 | -granted assistance to federal civil-service employees during periods of disability | 9 | |
| 2018829735 | Adamson Act of 1916 | -established an eight-hour day for all employees on trains in interstate commerce, with extra pay overtime | 10 | |
| 2018829736 | Wilson's repeal | -persuaded Congress in 1914 to repeal the Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912, which had exempted American coastal shipping from tolls -He also signed the Jones Act in 1916, which granted the Philippines territorial status and promised independence as soon as a stable government could be established. | 11 | |
| 2018829737 | Political turmoil in Haiti | -political turmoil broke out in Haiti in 1915, Wilson dispatched marines to protect American lives and property -In 1916, he signed a treaty with Haiti providing for U.S. supervision of finances and the police -In 1917, Wilson purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark. | 12 | |
| 2018829738 | Mexican Revolution (1913) | -president murdered and replaced with General Victoriano Huerta -Because of the chaos in Mexico, millions of Spanish-speaking immigrants came to America. -Francisco Villa, rival to President Carranza, attempted to provoke a war between Mexico and the U.S by killing Americans. -Wilson, rather, ordered General John J. Perishing to break up Villa's band of outlaws. The invading American army was withdrawn from Mexico in 1917 as the threat of war with Germany loomed. | 13 | |
| 2018829739 | World War I (1914) | -sparked when the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary was murdered by a Serb patriot. An outraged Vienna government, backed by Germany, presented an ultimatum to Serbia. Serbia, backed by Russia, refused to budge. Russia began to mobilize its army, alarming Germany on the east, and France confronted Germany on the west. Germany struck at France first and the fighting began. -Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, and Bulgaria -The Allies: France, Britain, Russia, Japan, and Italy. | 14 | |
| 2018829740 | Neutrality Proclamation | -Wilson called on Americans to be neutral in thought as well as deed. -Most Americans were anti-German -Yet most were against the war | 15 | |
| 2018829741 | America's gains | -American industry prospered off trade with the Allies. -Germany and the Central Powers protested American trading with the Allies, although America wasn't breaking the international neutrality laws- Germany was free to trade with the U.S., but Britain prevented this trade by controlling the Atlantic Ocean by which Germany had to cross in order to trade with the U.S. | 16 | |
| 2018829742 | Lusitania | -In 1915, several months after Germany started to use submarines in the war, one of Germany's submarines sunk the British liner Lusitania, killing 128 Americans. | 17 | |
| 2018829743 | Arabic | -When Germany sunk another British liner, the Arabic, in 1915, Berlin agreed to not sink unarmed passenger ships without warning. | 18 | |
| 2018829744 | Sussex | -Germany continued to sink innocent ships as apparent when one of its submarines sank a French passenger steamer, the Sussex. President Wilson informed the Germans that unless they renounced the inhuman practice of sinking merchant ships without warning, he would break diplomatic relations, leading to war. -Sussex pledge: the United States would have to persuade the Allies to modify what Berlin regarded as their illegal blockade. -Wilson accepted the Germany pledge, without accepting the "string" of additions. | 19 | |
| 2018829745 | Election of 1916 | -Wilson runs again (Democrat) -Charles E. Hughes (Republican) -Wilson wins by a landslide | 20 | |
| 2018829746 | herbert croley | believed the government should be activist in favor of the welfare of everyone. | 21 | |
| 2018829747 | eugene debs | several times the candidate of the Socialist Party of America for President of the United States. Through his presidential candidacies, as well as his work with labor movements, Debs eventually became one of the best-known socialists living in the United States. | 22 | |
| 2018829748 | Arsene pujo | was a member of the United States House of Representatives best known for chairing the "Pujo Committee", which sought to expose an anticompetitive conspiracy among some of the nation's most powerful financial interests. | 23 | |
| 2018829749 | louis Brandeis | A lawyer and jurist, he created the "Brandeis Brief," which succinctly outlines the facts of the case and cites legal precedents, in order to persuade the judge to make a certain ruling. | 24 | |
| 2018829750 | Pancho villa | A Mexican peasant rebel leader who sought to overthrow the Mexican government and stop Venustiano Carranza from taking it over first, gathering an army in Northern Mexico and, in anger at President Wilson's support of Carranza, eventually terrorized Americans in Mexico and burned Columbus, New Mexico. | 25 | |
| 2018829751 | pershing | He was a U.S. General who led the landings in France in huge numbers; was an American general who led troops against "Pancho" Villa in 1916. He took on the Meuse-Argonne offensive in 1918 | 26 | |
| 2018829752 | Kaiser willhelm | leader of Germany at the time of WWI | 27 | |
| 2018841844 | new nationalism | 1912: Theodore Roosevelt's program in his campaign for the presidency, the New Nationalism called for a national approach to the country's affairs and a strong president to deal with them. It also called for efficiency in government and society; it urged protection of children, women, and workers; accepted "good" trusts; and exalted the expert and the executive. Additionally, it encouraged large concentrations of capital and labor. | 28 | |
| 2018841845 | 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. | 29 |
