Acts and policys
Trust Busting
charge whatever they want because they had no competition
Andrew Carneige
Was the steel industry/ made coal huge
Muckrakers
Investigator Journalism and had good intentions and let Americans know what was really going on
Big Stick Diplomacy
Panama said no to US and wanted independance so the US sent ships to order them and create a canal.
18th Amendment
Prohibation on alcohol and will be in effect for 13 years
John Hay proposed instead of fighting over China lets divide it and share it. "Spheres of Inference"
A.Mitchel
Wilsons attorney general and organized attacks on communist groups
Yellow Journalism (spoken and unpsoked)
spoken reason= Spanish leaders didn't treat Cuba well
Unspoken= national leaders wanted control over Cuba
Sacco-Vanzetti Case
Sacco worked in shoe place
Vanzetti sold fish
Anarchists and pay master at saccos work got jumped and killed so sus on sacco and vanzetti so did not get fair trial by gov
Political machiens
Leaders would take a lot and make sure they pay low
Pure food and drug act
Regulate everything that is made with a goverment inspection process
Emilio Aguinaldo
Led the freedom fighters
Boxers
secret enlarged group in China and killed buissness people and christian missionaries.
By William Howard Tafts using bribary
Example of U.S civillian involvement in WWII
Funding
Buissness excise profit
peer presure
Dawes Severalty Act 1887
Took lands from the Natives and divide it up for families kind of like homesteaders
Alfred Tmahan
Navy captain and had a theory that every dominant empire always has a empire across the sea
Woman Progressives 3 big issues
Temperance, urban reform, sufferage
Assign the blame for the war on germany and wilson brought 14 points to paris-doc to create lasting peace
Social Darwinism
shared belief that rich white men stating they are the fittest, those at the bottom deserve it
Square Deal
says " you better listen to me, I am a rich man too but you'll still be rich and better for people"
Did not want to get involved with the war because "why"
2 immermann telegram
sent a telegram to mexico and US intercepted it and it asked mexico to join Germany and back they would help get the land from the US back
Moral Diplomacy
by Woodrow Wilson and spread/influence democracy and not all countries cooperated
Direct primary system