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19 Cards in this Set
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Muller v. Oregon
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-Curt Muller made a woman work more than 10 hours in a day
-violated labor laws -violated the safety contract |
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Plessy v Ferguson
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In 1896 the supreme court ruled in the case that “separate but equal” facilities for the different races was legal . In so doing, the court set back civil rights gains during reconstruction.
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Lochner v New York
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( 1905) Supreme court rules law limiting working hours unconstitutional- violates contract rights of employees.
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14 Points
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Wilson’s 14 points summed up his solution for all the country’s to come to an agreement peacefully and pacifistically, peace without victory, self-determination ( to end colonies) limit the size of a nations army and navy, de-organize neutral nations rights and the freedom of the seas for all countries, no secret alliances, and a league of nations to insue peace in the future and democracy for all nations.
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Roosevelt Corollary
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TR states US will intervene in any latin American country whose instability or fiscal irresponbility could bring European intervention- US Will restore order.
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Manilla Bay
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US navy commander Dewey used force to capture the port of manilla in the phillipines, against the revolution leadership of Emilo Aguinaldo.
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Dollar Diplomacy
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Substitute economic cities for military alliances with the motive being profit and increased American influence. Mostly in Latin America
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Open Door Policy
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Equal Commercial Opportunity for all in china, European nations at first did not like the idea, when boxer rebellion occurred in china US sent troops to help suppress the rebels, in return Germany, France, and England grew more receptive to American foreign policy objectives.
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Ballinger Pinchot
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Ballinger is secretary of state, and Pinchot is Chief forester. Throws open the use of over 1 million acres of waterpower sites in west. Also involved in “shady” sale of government land in Alaska. Pinchot exposes possible corruption, then fired by Taft for insubordination. Pinchot is very close to TR and TR and Taft have falling out.
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John Pershing
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Commander of World War I, sent by Woodrow Wilson after Mexican General Pancho Villa who attacked and killed 17 civilians in New Mexico. Ordered home in 1917 without capturing him. Led AEF and was sent to France to guide Americans in WWI returned in 1919 a hero.
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Williams Jennings Bryan
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ran for president in 1896, Democratic canidate aagainst William Mckinely. Bryan ran populist platform. Bryan argued that easy money supply, though inflationary would loosen control over northern banking system. Bryan later lost campaign as well as the populist movement.
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Eugene Debs
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founder of the American railway union socialist candidate and ran for president in 1912, got the most votes out of any socialist representative.
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Lusitania
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Ship sunk by German U-boats in 1915 killing 1200 passengers, provoked the condemnation of both the public and the government. The ship was in fact carrying a bunch of ammunition to the British but received much less attention. Sinking of this ship led Germany to cease submarine warfare for a while due to bad publicity it created.
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Coal Strike 1902
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UMW (John Mitchell) us the owners, Theodore Roosevelt played as "mediator" for compensation between owners and workers. Lift pay a little for workers. Increased Roosevelt's publicity with coal workers and showed how he could help out both sides.
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New Nationalism
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Thoedore Roosevelt developed the program, called for stranger regulatory power with a more direct democracy, this was established or a good example how this was shown was that populars role could recall judicial decisions.
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New Freedom
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Brought on by democratic woodrow wilson and with this be wanted to break up monopolies, and return to small scale competetive units. This would increase opportunities for smaller business to make it and not have to compete with large monopolies. Monopolies brought on no competition with regulated prices due to the fact that large monpolies owned a lot of intermediate stores. Competition called for spreading wealth and not isolating big business with all the power.
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Coal Strike 1902
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UMW (John Mitchell) us the owners, Theodore Roosevelt played as "mediator" for compensation between owners and workers. Lift pay a little for workers. Increased Roosevelt's publicity with coal workers and showed how he could help out both sides.
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New Nationalism
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Thoedore Roosevelt developed the program, called for stranger regulatory power with a more direct democracy, this was established or a good example how this was shown was that populars role could recall judicial decisions.
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New Freedom
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Brought on by democratic woodrow wilson and with this be wanted to break up monopolies, and return to small scale competetive units. This would increase opportunities for smaller business to make it and not have to compete with large monopolies. Monopolies brought on no competition with regulated prices due to the fact that large monpolies owned a lot of intermediate stores. Competition called for spreading wealth and not isolating big business with all the power.
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