WILSON’S GLOW-UP ERA (PROGRESSIVISM)
This Woodrow Wilson plan promised competition, lower tariffs, and less “big business energy.”
What is the New Freedom?
This law strengthened antitrust rules and protected workers and unions from being sued for existing.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This Mexican leader took power violently and was not exactly Wilson’s vibe.
Who is Victoriano Huerta?
These nations included Germany and Austria-Hungary and were NOT the good guys in most textbooks.
Who are the Central Powers?
This Progressive intellectual believed government should regulate big business for the public good.
Who is Herbert Croly?
Wilson’s rival idea that said “big government can actually help people, actually.”
What is New Nationalism?
These companies owned other companies and were peak monopoly behavior in the early 1900s.
What are holding companies?
This Mexican revolutionary leader was supported by the U.S. after Huerta fell.
Who is Venustiano Carranza?
These countries included Britain, France, and later the U.S., and they opposed the Central Powers.
Who are the Allies?
This Supreme Court justice was nicknamed “the people’s lawyer” and fought monopolies.
Who is Louis D. Brandeis?
This law lowered tariffs so Americans could buy cheaper stuff and the government could tax income instead.
What is the Underwood Tariff?
This law made sure injured workers didn’t have to sue their boss just to pay medical bills.
What is the Workmen’s Compensation Act?
This incident happened when U.S. sailors were arrested in Mexico, almost causing a war.
What is the Tampico Incident?
German submarines that made Atlantic travel extremely unsafe.
What are U-boats?
This man ran against Wilson in 1916 and almost won.
Who is Charles Evans Hughes?
This 1913 act created a central banking system so the U.S. economy would stop panicking every five minutes.
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
This law said monopolies were illegal and actually meant it this time.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act?
This revolutionary leader raided New Mexico and made America very mad.
Who is Francisco “Pancho” Villa?
This British ship was sunk by a German U-boat, killing civilians and angering Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
This president tried very hard to avoid WWI but got dragged in anyway.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
This agency exists to tell corporations “no ❤️” when they try unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission Act?
Progressives believed the government should regulate this instead of letting corporations do whatever they want.
What is the economy / big business?
This general was sent by Wilson to hunt Pancho Villa but… never caught him. Awkward.
Who is John “Black Jack” Pershing?
This event pushed the U.S. closer to war by proving neutrality was not working.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
This general later became famous in WWI and WWII and started his career chasing Villa.
Who is John “Black Jack” Pershing?