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Attorney General who rounded up many suspects who were thought to be un-American and socialistic; he helped to increase the Red Scare.
Who isA. Mitchell Palmer?
Economic policy by Roosevelt that favored fair relationships between companies and workers.
What is "Square Deal"?
Reduced tariffs and taxed personal income, making the rich pay more tax than the poor.
What is the Underwood Tariff?
The use of submarines to sink without warning any ship (including neutral ships and unarmed passenger liners) found in an enemy's waters.
What is Unrestricted Submarine Warfare?
Propaganda organization - their goal was to convince Americans that the war was a battle for democracy and freedom.
What is the Commitee on Public Information?
27th president, Republican
Who is W. H. Taft?
Laid down binding rules for sanitary meat packing and government inspection of meat products crossing state lines.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
Law that created the modern banking system, with 12 Federal Reserve districts, each with a Federal Reserve Bank. All the banks are overseen by the Federal Reserve Board.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This was sent by Germans to encourage a Mexican attack against the United States. Intercepted by the US in 1917.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Woodrow Wilson's plan for post-war peace: no secret treaties; freedom of the seas; removal of economic barriers; reduction of arms; adjust colonial claims.
What is Wilson's 14 Points?
28th president, Democrat
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Halted the sale of contaminated foods and medicines and called for truth in labeling.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Law that restricted trade practices that led to monopolies and upheld the rights of unions.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
Led by Bernard Baruch, had oversight of all industrial production and could order the specific use of raw materials and other resources it saw fit to help the war.
What is the War Industrial Board?
Treaty that ended WW I. It blamed Germany for WW I and handed down harsh punishment.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
2nd in line to the throne of Austria; his assassination by Gavrilo Princip was the spark that led to World War I.
Who is Archduke Francis Ferdinand?
Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South and Central America by using military force.
What is the Roosevelt Corollary?
German submarines used in World War I.
What are U-boats?
This government agency was headed by Herbert Hoover and was established to increase the production of food and ration food for the military.
What is the Food Administration?
A world organization established in 1920 to promote international cooperation and peace.
What is the League of Nations?
The assassin of Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria.
Who is Gavrilo Princip?
Ship canal cut across the isthmus of Panama by United States, it was an astounding engineering accomplishment. It was opened to the commerce of all nations in 1914.
What is the Panama Canal?
A British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat on May 7, 1915. 128 Americans died. The sinking greatly turned American opinion against the Germans, helping the move towards entering the war.
What is The Lusitania?
Like the Food Administration, the Fuel Administration encouraged Americans to save fuel with "heatless Mondays".
What is the Fuel Administration?
Fear that communists were working to destroy the American way of life.
What is the Red Scare?