Chapter 29: Wilsonian Progressivism at Home and Abroad
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| Four-footed symbol of Roosevelt's Progressive third party in 1912 | ||
| A fourth political party, led by former labor union leader Eugene V. Debs, that garnered nearly a million votes in 1912 | ||
| Wilson's political philosophy of restoring democracy through trust-busting and economic competition | ||
| A twelve-member agency appointed by the president to oversee the banking system under a new federal law of 1913 | ||
| New presidentially appointed regulatory commission designed to prevent monopoly and guard against unethical trade practices | ||
| Wilsonian law that tried to curb business monopoly while permitting labor and agricultural organizations | ||
| Wilsonian reform law that established an 8-hour day for railroad workers | ||
| Troubled Caribbean island nation where a president's murder led Wilson to send in the marines and assume American control of the police and finances | ||
| Term for the three Latin American nations whose mediation prevented war between the U. S. and Mexico in 1914. | ||
| World War I alliance headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary | ||
| The coalition of powers - led by Britain, France, and Russia - that opposed Germany and its partners in World War I | ||
| New underwater weapon that threatened neutral shipping and seemed to violate all traditional norms of international law | ||
| Large British passenger liner whose sinking in 1915 prompted some Americans to call for war against Germany | ||
| Germany's carefully conditional agreement in 1916 not to sink passenger and merchant vessels without warning | ||
| Key electoral state where a tiny majority for Wilson tipped the balance against Hughes in 1916 | ||
| Southern-born intellectual who pursued strong moral goals in politics and the presidency | ||
| Energetic progressive and vigorous nationalist who refused to wage another third-party campaign in 1916 | ||
| Labor leader who hailed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act as the "Magna Carta of labor" | ||
| Leading progressive reformer and the first Jew named to the U. S. Supreme Court | ||
| Caribbean territory purchased by the U. S. from Denmark in 1917 | ||
| Mexican revolutionary whose bloody regime Wilson refused to recognize and nearly ended up fighting | ||
| Second revolutionary Mexican president, who took aid from the U. S. but strongly resisted American military intervention in his country. | ||
| Port where clashes between Mexicans and American military forces nearly led to war in 1914 | ||
| Mexican revolutionary whose assaults on American citizens and territory provoked a U. S. expedition into Mexico | ||
| Commander of the American military expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917 | ||
| Small European nation whose neutrality was violated by Germany in the early days of WWI | ||
| Small European nation in which an Austro-Hungarian heir was killed, leading to the outbreak of WWI | ||
| Autocratic ruler who symbolized ruthlessness and arrogance to may pro-Allied Americans | ||
| Narrowly unsuccessful presidential candidate who tried to straddle both sides of the fence regarding American policy toward Germany | ||
| Socialist party leader who garnered nearly a million votes for president in the election of 1912 |