 | Term | Definition |
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Newlands Reclamation Act |
allowed federal government to build irrigation projects |
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Sherman Antitrust Act |
made it illegal to create monopolies or trusts that restricted free trade |
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William Howard Taft |
angered Progressives by supporting the Payne-Aldric Tariff; lost Roosevelt's support, defeated for seconf term |
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Sixteenth Amendment |
allowed Congress to levy taxes based on a person's income |
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Woodrow Wilson |
created Federal Reserve System and Federal Trade Commission, encated child labor laws, reform laws included direct election of senators, prohibition, and women's suffrage |
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New Freedom |
called for tariff reductions, banking reforms, and stronger antitrust laws |
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Federal Reserve Act |
created a central fund for banks and placded banking system under the supervision of government |
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Clayton Antitrust Act |
didn't allow companies to buy the stock of competing companies in order to create a monopoly, forbade companies from selling goods below cost |
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Alice Paul |
American social reformer, suffragist, activist who founded the NWP |
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Nineteenth Amendment |
constitutional amendment that gave women the right to vote |
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Carrie Chapman Catt |
suffragist and leader of NAWSA |
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