Chapter 29 Vocab from The American Pageant
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| 1195505099 | New Freedom | Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy that, promoted antitrust modification, tariff revision, and reform in banking and currency matters. | |
| 1195505100 | New Nationalism | Roosevelt's progressive political policy that favored heavy government intervention in order to assure social justice | |
| 1195505101 | Underwood Tariff | Pushed through Congress by Woodrow Wilson, this 1913 tariff reduced average tariff duties by almost 15% and established a graduated income tax | |
| 1195505102 | Federal Reserve Act | a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply | |
| 1195505103 | Federal Trade Commission Act | This law authorized a presidentially-appointed commission to oversee industries engaged in interstate commerce, such as the meatpackers. The commissioners were expected to crush monopolies at the source. | |
| 1195505104 | Clayton Anti-Trust Act | New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions | |
| 1195505105 | holding companies | Companies that hold a majority of another company's stock in order to control the management of that company. Can be used to establish a monopoly. | |
| 1195505106 | Workingmen's Compensation Act | established an all-purpose protection program for Federal civilian employees and their dependents in the event of injury or death | |
| 1195505107 | Adamson Act | 1916 law that established 8 hour workday for railroad workers in order to avert a national strike | |
| 1195505108 | Jones Act | (WW) 1916, 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. | |
| 1195505109 | Tampico Incident | In April 1914, some U.S. sailors were arrested in Mexico. President Wilson used the incident to send U.S. troops into northern Mexico. His real intent was to unseat the Huerta government there. After the Niagara Falls Conference, Huerta abdicated and the confrontation ended. | |
| 1195505110 | Central Powers | in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies | |
| 1195505111 | Allies | in World War I the alliance of Great Britain and France and Russia and all the other nations that became allied with them in opposing the Central Powers | |
| 1195505112 | U-Boats | German submarines | |
| 1195505113 | 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. |
