Amendments
Allowed for the taxation of US Citizens
What is the 16th amendment?
This Act prohibited powerful combinations of businesses that could restrict trade and reduce competition.
What was the Sherman Antitrust Act?
He focused on preventing monopolies and creating economic opportunities for small businesses.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
The federal government used the Sherman Antitrust Act as a basis to file a lawsuit to break up this company.
What is the Northern Securities Company?
A procedure in which a dispute is submitted by agreement of both parties for resolution without filing a lawsuit.
What is arbitration?
Allowed women to become more active in government
What is the 19th amendment?
This act created 12 Federal Reserve banks with the authority to issue federal bank notes.
What is the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
He stood for diminishing the influence of big business, women's suffrage, social insurance for unemployed, and a federal income tax.
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
These two programs were created for public safety out of the square deal.
What are the Meat Inspection Act an the Food and Drug Act?
What is a Tariff?
Stopped citizens from complaining to the government about unfair votes and set up election of senators by popular vote.
What is the 17th amendment?
This act gave small businesses a chance to survive and compete with big businesses.
What is the Hepburn Act of 1906?
He was vice president and became president when McKinley was killed.
Who is Theodore Roosevelt?
This movement was about helping the less fortunate.
What is the New Nationalism movement?
This was Theodore Roosevelt's calvary unity during the Spanish-American War.
What are the Rough Riders?
Detractors thought it gave citizens too much power.
What were opposing views of the 17th amendment?
This act formed a national banking and currency system.
What is the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
He was responsible for several reforms in New Jersey, before being elected president in 1912.
Who was Woodrow Wilson?
What is the 18th Amendment-Prohibition?
The Progressive Party also called themselves this, since it was one of Theodore Roosevelt's nicknames.
What is the Bull Moose Party?
Eliminated the need to rely on tariffs to raise money for the government.
What is the need for the 16th amendment?
This act lowered tariffs so imported goods were less expensive, lowering prices for consumers.
What is the Underwood Tariff Act?
Big business leaders feared him because he pushed for more control over industries and was known as the "trustbuster".
Who was Theodore Roosevelt?
This company sought to control almost all railroads in the west.
This term describes the union of several companies to form one large company to create a monopoly.
What is a Trust?