American Pageant, ID's for Chapters 28-30

Version 12, important identifications for chapters 28, 29, and 30. (1900-1920)

145785116	Theodore Roosevelt	Became President in 1901 after McKinley's assassination. Progressive Republican who built the Panama Canal. 1901-1908, busted 45 bad trusts and campaigned for regulation in meatpacking and protection of the consumer.
145785117	The Square Deal	For capital labor and the public at large; the 3-C's. Control of Industry (Corporations,) Consumer Protection, and Conservation of Resources.
145785118	Henry Demarest Lloyd	Wrote "Wealth Against Commonwealth," in which he attacked Standard Oil.
145785119	Jacob Riis	Reporter for the "New York Sun," who shocked the middle class with how the other half classes live in 1890. He described the dirt, disease, vice, and misery of the slums of New York.
145785120	Ida Tarbell	Most prominent women muckraker and well respected; published an astoundingly factual expose' of Standard Oil, (to whom her father lost his oil business.)
145785121	Lincoln Steffens	New York reporter who launched a series of articles in McCuire's titled "The Shame of the Cities," where he unmasks the ties between the businesses and municipal government.
145785122	David Phillips	Shocked the nation with his series in Cosmopolitan: "The Treason in the Senate" in which he charges 75 of the 90 senates actually represented companies. In 1919 he was shot by a deranged young man.
145785123	Robert M. Lafouete	Governor of Wisconsin who imposed amlio state system that wrestled power away from the trusts and placed it back in the hands of the people.
145785124	Hiram Johnson	California Governor who broke the control of the Southern Pacific Railroad on the government of the state.
145785125	Charles Evan Hughes	Republican Governor of New York who investigated malpractices of gas and insurance trusts.
145785126	Francis Willard	Founder of the WCTU, (Women's Christian Temperance Union,) who would fall to her knees in prayer on bar room floors.
145785127	Upton Sinclair	Wrote "The Jungle."
145785128	William Howard Taft	Teddy Roosevelt's chosen successor. One termer Republican who was fairly conservative. Busted 90 trusts both good and bad. His Cabinet did not include any progressive reformers. Essentially, "Everybody loves a fat man."
145785129	Dollar Diplomacy	Passed in order to pump U.S. investors money into areas of strategic importance to the U.S.
145785130	Initiative	Petition Government.
145785131	Referundum	Citizens vote on laws.
145785132	Recall	Citizens recall representatives not representing reform amendments.
145785133	16th Reform Amendment	Amendment involving income taxes.
145785134	17th Reform Amendment	Amendment involving direct election of senators.
145785135	18th Reform Amendment	Amendment involving the banning of alcohol.
145785136	19th Reform Amendment	Amendment involving Women's voting rights.
145785137	Elkins Act of 1903	Act involving railroad rebates.
145785138	Hepburn act Act of 1906	Railroad free passes.
145785139	Northern Securities Case	President Roosevelt's first trust bust.
145785140	Meat Inspection Act	The inspection of food passed over state lines.
145785141	Pure Food and Drug Act	An act that prohibits the mislabeling of products.
145785142	New lands Reclamation	The Government sold the Western lands and used the profits to fund irrigation projects.
145785143	Payne-Aldrich Act	Intended to lower the national tariff but actually raised it when a bunch of rules were tacked on to it.
145785144	Ballenger-Pinchott Affair	Forrest administrators got into a fight regarding the selling of land to timber companies. President Taft fires on of the men even though he had everyone's best interests at heart.
145785145	Woodrow Wilson	Minority, Republican President. Votes for this election were split between Roosevelt, Taft, and this man. Intelligent pacifist, but haughty and cold. He was a trust fighter and managed to reform the banking system. He didn't want to enter WWI, but eventually felt he had to.
145785146	Herbert Croly	Wrote in 1910, "The PRomise of American Life." Which basically agreed 100% with all of Roosevelt's views.
145785147	Eugene V. Debs	1912 Socialist candidate.
145785148	Louis D. Brandes	Wrote "Other People's Money and How Bankers Use It," in 1914 and became Jew nominated for the Supreme Court.
145785149	Venustiano Carranza	Opposed Huerta's government and became President of Mexico when Wilson interfered; he didn't like the U.S. getting involved but he settled into an uneasy peace.
145785150	Pancho Villa	Mexican who opposed Huerta and Carranza and continued to rebel and plague all sides of the situation; even a campaign into Mexico and a defeat of his forces didn't yield in his capture.
145785151	Kaiser Wilhem II	German leader that everyone loves to hate.
145785152	New Nationalism	Preached by Roosevelt; government should increase its power to remedy economic and social US
145785153	Underwood Tariff	Brought down the high tariff left since revenue could come in through the 16th amendment.
145785154	Federal Reserve Act	Created the Federal Reserve Board which would oversee 12 areas and the new banks set up to distribute to those areas. Allowed them to issue paper money which could swiftly increase the circulation of paper money.
145785155	Federal Trade Commission	Empowered Presidentially appointed committee to turn a searchlight onto trusts.
145785156	Clayton Anti-trust Act	Extended the Sherman Anti-trust act, legalized peaceful union strikes and pickets, and increased the things which classified bad trusts.
145785157	Jones Act	Anti-Imperialist act which gave the Philippines territorial status and eventual freedom.
145785158	Lusitania	The ship the the Germans sunk killing several British and American passengers.
145785159	Sussex Pledge	Germany promised that they wouldn't attack passenger liners without warning.
145785160	Gavarilo Princip	Serb who killed the archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria essentially starting WWI.
145785161	Von Shleiffen Plan	Germany's war plan of the Eastern and Western war fronts and how to win.
145785162	Creek Committee	Committee of public information meant to boost moral for the war effort.
145785163	Bernard Baruch	Head of the War Industries Board.
145785164	Marshal Foch	French Commander of all allied forces in the trenches of WWI.
145785165	Henry Cabot Lodge	Opposed Wilson's Treaty of Versailles and set up a series of referendums to the treaty, using them to campaign against it. He was from Massachusetts.
145785166	Warred G. Harding	Republican in the 1920's; folksy and charming. His VP was Coolidge.
145785167	James Cox	Democratic candidate of 1920 for the League of Nations; his VP was Franklin D. Roosevelt.
145785168	Normalcy	The state before all the liberal reforms and questionable morality and outrageous idealism.
145785169	Zimmerman Note	A letter from Germany to Mexico saying that if they formed an alliance that Mexico could gain back its lost land; America intercepted the note and was not happy about it-reason for war.
145785170	14 Points	14 ideals of peace, all but 4 of which were comprised in the Treaty of Versailles; most prominent of all the ideas was the League of Nations.
145785171	League of Nations	A group of allied nations who met to preserve global and local peace; also met to address world problems.
145785172	Espionage and Sedition Acts	Criticism of the government could be punished and many socialists were prosecuted; it reflected the current fear of foreigners.
145785173	War Industries Board	Headed by Bernard Baruch; it was intended to restore economic order but didn't have enough time or power to do so. Was disbanded days after the war.
145785174	WWI	Germany Vs. everybody else. Starts in Serbia, Bosnia, and Austria with the assassination and moves into trench warfare in France.
145785175	Food Administration	Kept consumers form consuming by making it fun and patriotic. People had wheat-less Wednesday and meatless Thursday; plus more people had gardens.
145785176	Bolshevik Revolution	1917 Communist leaders overthrow the Czar and kill him and his family; they establish a new communist government with Lenin.
145785177	The Big Four	America, Britain, France, and Italy.
145785178	Treaty of Versailles	Made Germany pay and also gave them no say in the creation of the treaty. Wilson attempted to push his 14 points but had to compromise to get his League of Nations to be a part of it. Eventually caused WWII.
145785179	Irreconcilables	People that would never support the League of Nations.