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Created a centralized banking system that was semi-governed by the federal government.
Federal Reserve Act
This scare was a direct reaction to the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia from 1917 - 1921.
The First Red Scare.
a foreign policy under Taft to ensure the financial stability of a region while protecting and extending U.S. commercial and financial interests
Dollar Diplomacy.
A period of political change and reform during the early decades of the 20th century. Emphasized limiting the power of corporations and political parties
Progressive Era (I will accept Progressive)
This case coined the phrase: "You would not shout fire in a crowded theatre"
Schenck v. United States
This act essentially created a system of government oversight that made it unlawful to manufacture adulterated, meaning making something poorer in quality by adding another substance, or mislabel drugs within the public sphere
The Food and Drug Act
Was a movement that was an anti-Black effort within the Republican party and it was controversial BECAUSE Roosevelt courted their votes on during the third-party candidacy.
Lily White Delegation.
This showed that Germany (Prussia) is primarily interested in winning the war as soon as possible. If Mexico attacks the United States then they could get back the land from the Mexican-American war
Zimmerman Telegram
This agency was originally called the Office of Strategic Services.
The Central Intelligence Agency
This court question raised the following question: Does the United States president can REMOVE anyone they wish without the advice and consent of the Senate?
Myers v. United States
This act empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to regulate railroad shipping rates and enforce its regulations to railroad monopolies and examine RELATED to railroads, such as companies that have vertical integration – sleeping car companies, bridges, terminal, ferries, and oil pipelines.
Hepburn Act of 1906
This scandal was related to a president's administration willfully selling public lands to private oil companies for private gain.
Teapot Dome Scandal
foreign policy set by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904-1905, stating that the United States could intervene in Latin American countries in the case of flagrant and chronic wrongdoing.
Roosevelt Corrollary
Helped professionalize the federal bureaucracy rather than it being made up of patronage appointments
Pendleton Act
This famous court case emphasized that the president DOES have the power to punish any companies that engage in trade that clash with U.S. foreign policy.
Curtiss-Wright Export Corporation v. United States
This act outlined that there are activities that PRODUCE monopolies, trusts, and it protected “strikes” when laborers met specific definitions of a “legal strike”.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
This was a tense political standoff between the Kennedy Administration, Fidel Castro, and Nikita Khrushchev.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
This type of diplomacy allowed Nixon to essentially drive a wedge between the Soviet and the U.S.S.R.
Ping-Pong Diplomacy.
This committee essentially was artificially encouraging American morale for the war while also facilitating a more “hands on” approach to the American war effort
Creel Committee
This court case emphasized that the president CAN NOT seize private property when a war is not declared OR a threat to the United States directly.
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
This act made it illegal to racially discriminate against African Americans by racially gerrymandering districts.
Voting Rights Act
The Whitewater investigation lead to THIS famous scandal.
Monica Lewinsky Scandal.
This failed invasion of a Caribbean island led to one of the most tense standoffs in international history! (If only they had air support)
The Bay of Pigs
This act essentially made it mandatory for individuals who had improved in a two-year span of time from when they were originally injured to being healed would be taken off those benefits.
Disability Reform Act of 1984
This famous court case emphasized that the special counsels do have the right to indict/investigate departmental heads of agencies under the Ethics in Government Act.
Morrison v. Olson