Foreign Policy
-1928
-Aka the Pact of Paris
-Ratified by 62 nations
-Tried to outlaw war but defensive wars were still allowed
What is the Kellog-Briand Pact?
-Passed in 1913
-Carried the nation through the financial crisis of the first world war (1914-18)
What is the Federal Reserve Act?
Supreme court ruled that it was constitutional to enact laws that specifically protected women factory workers.
What is Muller v. Oregon?
PWA
Industrial recovery and unemployment relief
Long-range recover
What is the Public Works Administration?
Advocated to give women the right to vote if they were to continue to be homemakers and mothers in the increasingly public world of the city.
Who was Carrie Catt?
-1921-22
-Several world powers met to discuss disarmament of their navies
What is the Washington Conference?
Forced the Cubans to write their own Constitution.
Was hated by the Cubans because it was written to benefit the US
What is the Platt Amendment?
Declared that the constitution didn't extend to the Philippines and Puerto Rico.
What are the Insular Cases?
NRA
Immediate relief and long term recovery and reform
Designed to assist industry, labor, and the unemployed.
What is the National Recovery Administration?
Called upon women to get rid of their dependent status and contribute to the community through the economy.
Who was Charlotte Gilman?
-1922
-Limited construction of certain types of large Naval ships, applied ration limits to the number of ships a country could build.
What is the Five Power Naval Treaty?
Let European democracies buy American war materials as long as they transport them on their own ships and pay in cash.
What is the Neutrality Act of 1939?
Controversy over who had the final authority to determine the meaning of the Constitution.
What is Madbury V. Madison?
Republicans were against lowering the tariff because it would hurt businesses (lower prices for customers meant less protection for monopolies)
What is the Tariff of 1887?
Proclaimed her belief in free love
Who was Victoria Woodhull?
Adopted when congress declared war on Spain in April of 1898. When the U.S had beaten the Spanish, the Cubans would be free.
What is the Teller Amendment?
Gave the Puerto Ricans a limited degree of popular government.
Gave Puerto Ricans U.S. citizenship in 1917.
What is the Foraker Act?
The college had been granted a charter by King George III in 1769.
NH legislature seen fit to change it
Dartmouth Appealed
What is Dartmouth College V. Woodward?
Cause: The Bank of the US, through its western branches became deeply involved in gambling.
Effect: financial paralysis and back washes in the political and social world.
What is the Panic of 1819?
Censored "immoral" material from the public.
Censored anything that might dirty ones sexual purity
What is the Comstock Law?
-1823
-Warning to European powers
1. Noncolonization
2. Nonintervention
What is the Monroe Doctrine?
Preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection from corral to can.
What is the Meat Inspection Act?
The Supreme Court decreed that individual states had NO power to regulate interstate commerce.
Led to the creation of Interstate Commerce Commission.
What is the Wabash Case?
Ratified in 1913, enabled Congress to collect a graduated income tax.
What is the 16th Amendment?
Championed antislavery
Who were the Grimke Sisters?