AP US Terms Test Review Part 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Teddy Roosevelt | 26th President, from 1901-1909, passed two acts that purified meat, took over in 1901 when McKinley was shot, Went after trusts, formed the "Bull Moose Party", wanted to build the Panama canal, and make our Navy ( military stronger ) |
| Square Deal | President Theodore Roosevelt's plan for reform; all Americans are entitled to an equal opportinity to succeed |
| Newlands Act | 1902 act authorizing federal funds from public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects, mainly in the dry Western states |
| W.E.B. Dubois | 1st black to earn Ph.D. from Harvard, encouraged blacks to resist systems of segregation and discrimination, helped create NAACP in 1910 |
| Taft | 27th President of the United States and later chief justice of the United States Supreme Court (1857-1930) |
| Woodrow Wilson | 28th president of the United States, known for World War I leadership, created Federal Reserve, Federal Trade Commission, >Clayton Antitrust Act<, progressive income tax, lower tariffs, women's suffrage (reluctantly), Treaty of Versailles, sought 14 points post-war plan, League of Nations (but failed to win U.S. ratification), won Nobel Peace Prize |
| Bull Moose Party | nickname for the new Progressive Party, which was formed to support Roosevelt in the election of 1912 |
| Progressive Amendments | Sixteenth (Income Tax), Seventeenth (Senators), and Nineteenth (Female Vote) Amendments. Social, political and economic reform that came as an American response to problems caused by industrialization, urbanization, and immigration. |
| Federal Reserve Act | Sparked by the Panic of 1893 and 1907, the 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, which issued paper money controlled by government banks. |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | Listed specific things a company could not do in order to restrain the power of monopolies. |
| Adamson Act | 1916 law that established 8 hour workday for railroad workers in order to avert a national strike |
| Lochner v New York | overturns new york law setting 8 hr maximum working hours for bakery workers- 1905 |
| Women's Christian Temperance Union | group organized in 1874 that worked to ban the sale of liquor in the U.S. |
| Francis Willard | Dean of Women at Northwestern University and the president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union., |
| Carrie Nation | She was an aggressive temperance reformer, Founded WCTU to outlaw selling/drinking alcohol. She was married to an abusive man that she killed with an axe and she didn't get punished for it. She formed a group that walked into bars with axes. |
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