History II II Flashcards
became the candidate for the newly formed Progressive Party which would be known as the Bull Moose Party
Roosevelt
started out as a university teacher before becoming the president of Princeton University and He would be the governor of New Jersey where he pushed through many progressive reforms.
Wilson
Accepted large trusts as a fact of life and set out to create proposals to increase regulations
Laws to protect women and children in the labor force and workers compensation
Wilson’s New Freedom criticized New Nationalism for supporting “regulated monopoly.”
He argued Roosevelt’s approach gave the federal government too much power in the economy and did nothing to restore competition.
Roosevelts New Nationalism Plan
reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30% of the value of the goods and provided for levying the first federal graduated income tax
Underwood Tarriff
16th amendment,
gave the federal government the power to levy such tax on income of Americans.
created the regional reserve banks, supervised by a Board of Governors appointed by the president
The Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Created to monitor American business.
Federal Trade Commission
outlawed practices that restricted competition such as price discrimination, or charging different customers different prices.
Clayton Antitrust Act
head of the AFL, called the act the workers’ “Magna Carta” because it gave unions the right to exist.
Samuel Gompers
prohibited the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories producing goods for interstate commerce
Keating Owen Child Labor Act
African American leader met at Niagara Falls to demand full rights for African Americans
W.E.B Du Bois
describe the likelihood of one in ten black men becoming leaders of their race in the world.
Talented Tenth
13th Amendment
freed slaves
18th Amendment
prohibition
16th Amendment
Taxes
