APUSH Chapter 30 Vocabulary
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mr barkey ch 30
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dr. Albert's briefcase | In August of 1915, papers describing German sabotage of US industry fanned the flame of anti-German feeling. These papers were found here |
| he kept us out of war | Wilson rode to the Democratic presidential nomination and election in 1916 on the back of this legislation |
| Pancho Villa | *the leader of a band of Mexicans who started a crisis with the US by murdering 18 US citizens in Santa Vsabel, Mexico |
| Eugene V. Debs | the 1912 Socialist canidate for president who received 900,672 votes or more than twice as many as four years earlier |
| Lusitania | the British passenger liner sunk May 7, 1915, with 1198 people going to their deaths |
| Federal Farm Loan Act | the 1916 act of Congress that made credit available to farmers at low interest rates |
| Charles Evans Hughes | the Supreme Court justice drafted by the Republicans in 1916 as their presidential canidate |
| Federal Reserve Act | the important 1913 act of Congress that was one of the US's most important attempts at banking reform |
| Sussex Ultimatum | the 1916 Wilson statement to Berlin informing them to renounce the practice of sinking merchantmen without warning or risk a break in diplomatic relations |
| La Follette Seaman's Act | the 1915 act requiring decent wages, treatment, and food for those in the merchant marine |
| Vera Cruz | a war with Mexico almost erupted in 1914 when Wilson ordered Marines to capture this city |
| California and Japan | in 1913 Wilson and Bryan averted a war in a crisis between this US state and this foreign country |
| General Victoriano Huerta | the man who made himself ruler of Mexico in 1913 upon the murder of Madero |
| Arabic | with the sinking of this British liner in August 1915, the Germans agreed not to sink unarmed ships without warning |
| federal income tax | In 1913, this was made legal by passage of the 16th amendment |
| New Freedom | Thomas W. Wilson advocated a reform program in 1913 to free the average man from exploitation by big business and high finance. This is the common name for that reform program. |
| Haiti | In 1916 the US concluded a treaty with this Caribbean nation providing for US supervision of the police and finances if the nation which was being supervised was a virtual US protectorate |
| Louis Brandeis | the Wilson confident whose 1914 book Other People's Money and How the Bankers Use It fanned the flames of banking reform |
| Pujo Committee | this committee in the predominately Democratic House undertook in 1912-1913 to investigate the so-called money trust |
| Virgin Islands | the $27 million purchase that the US made in 1917 as an attempt to prevent a German submarine base in the Caribbean |
| Adamson Act | the 1916 act which established an eight-hour day for railroad employees and extra pay for overtime |
| The Promise of American Life | the 1910 Herbert Crolley book that served as a basis for Teddy Roosevelt's 1912 reform campaign |
| non-recognition | the name for Wilson's idealistic foreign policy principle displayed in the case of Mexico's General Huerta |
| Allied Powers | In the summer of 1914, France, Britian, and Russia (later Japan and Italy) were referred to by this name |
| Tampico | In 1914 a small party of American sailors were arrested and taken from their ship docked in this seaport |
| Clayton Anti-Trust Act | the 1914 legislation that forbade practices that lessened competition, created monopolies, or resulted in objectionable price discrimination |
| William Jennings Bryan | Woodrow Wilson's secretary of state |
| canal tolls exemption | In 1914 Wilson was finally able to get Congress to repeal this US violation of the Hay-Paunceforte treaty |
| Perishing Expedition | the relatively unsuccessful response to the 1917 Villa killings |
| Venustiano Carranza | the man who succeeded Huerta as leader of Mexico in 1914 |
| Workingmen's Compensation Act | the 1916 act which granted assistance to federal civil service employees during periods of disability |
| Federal Trade Commission Act | Wilson's crusade against monopolies culminated in this 1914 act |
| Federal Trade Commission | the govenment agency created during the Wilson administration whose job was to keep business competion free and fair |
| Underwood Tariff | the 1913 tariff bill that lowered average rates from 40.8% to 27% |
| New Jersey | the Democrats of this boss-ridden state thought Woodrow Wilson wouldbe their pawn if they helped elect him governor |
| Nicaragua | the country with whom we signed a treaty in 1916 guaranteeing a 99-year right to US bases in that country plus an option for canal route |
| Columbus, N.M. | Villa showed contempt for the US by crossing the border and shooting up this town, killing 17 Americans |
| Central Powers | In the summer of 1914, Germany and Austria-Hungory (later Turkey and Bulgaria) were referred to by this name |
| William Jennings Bryan | Wilson in 1915 knew the US was not unified enough for war when this high government official resigned in protest of the US condemnation of only Germany |
| Jones Act | the 1916 act which granted the Philippines territorial status and declared that the US would grant independence as soon as a "stable" govenment was established |
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