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40 Cards in this Set
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"bull-moose"
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four footed symbol of Roosevelt's Progressive third party in 1912
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socialist
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a fourth political party, led by a former labor union leader, that garnered nearly a million voted in 1912
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triple wall of privilage
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Wilson's political philosophy of restoring democracy through trust busting and economic competition
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Federal Reserve Board
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a twelve member agency apointed by the president to eversee the banking system under a new federal law of 1913
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Federal Trade Commission
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new presidentially appointed regulatory commission designed to prevent monopoly and guard against unethical trade practices
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Clayton Act
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Wilsoian law that tried to curb business monopoly while encourage labor and agricultural organization
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Adamson Act
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Wilsonian reform law that established an either hour day for railroad workers
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Haiti
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troubled Caribbean island nation where a president's murder led Wilson to send in the marines and assume American control of the police and finaces
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ABC powers
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term for the three Latin American nations whose mediation prevented war between the US and Mexico in 1914
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Central Powers
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World War I alliance headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary
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Allias
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the coalition of powers-led by Britain, France and Russia-that opposed Germany and its supporting nations in World War I
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U-Boat
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new underwater weapon that threatened neutral shipping and apparently violated traditional norms of international law
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Lusotamoam
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large British passenger liner whose sinking in 1915 prompted some Americans to call for war against Germany
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Susics Pledge
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Germany's highly conditional agreement in 1916 not to sink passenger and merchant vessels without warning
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California
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key electoral state where a tiny majority for Wilson tipped the balance against Hughes in 1916
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Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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Southern born intellectual who pursued strong moral goals in politics and the presidency
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Theodore Roosevelt
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energetic progressive and vigorous nationalist who waged a third part campaign in 1912 but refused to do so against in 1916
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Samuel Gompers
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Labor leader who hailed the Clayton Anti Turst act as the "Magna Carta of Labor"
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Louis D Brandeis
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leading progressive reformer and the first Jew named to the US Supreme Court
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Virgin Islands
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Caribbean territory purchased by the US from Denmark in 1917
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General Huerta
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Mexican revolutionary whose bloody regine Wilson refused to recognize and who nearly ended up fighting the US in 1914
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Venustiano Carranza
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Huerta's successor as Mexican president, who took aid from the US but strongly resisted American military intervention in Mexico
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Tampico and Vera Cruz
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port cities where clashes between Mexicans and American military forces nearly led to war in 1914
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"Pancho" Villa
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Mexican revolutionary whose assaults on American citizens and territory provoked a US expedition into Mexico
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John J Pershing
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commander of the American military expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917
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Belgium
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small European nation whose neutrality was violated by Germany in the early days of World War I
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Serbia
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small European nation in which an Austro-Hungarian heir was killed, leading to the outbreak of World War I
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Kaiser Wilhelm II
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autocratic ruler who symbolized ruthlessness and arrogance to many pro Allied Americans
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Haiti
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Caribbean nation where Wilson sent American marines in 1915
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Charles Evans Hughes
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narrowly unsuccessful presidential candidate whose campaign was plagued by confussion on the issue of American policy toward Germany
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The split between Taft and Roosevelt
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allowed Wilson to win a minority victory in the election of 1912
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Wilson's presidential appeals to the public over the head of Congress
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helped push through sweeping reforms of the tariff and banking system in 1913
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the Federal Reserve Act
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finally established an effective national banking system and a flexible money supply
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Conservative justices of the Supreme Court
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nullified progressive Wilsonian measueres dealing with labor unions and child labor
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Political turmoil in Haiti and Santo Domingo
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caused Wilson to send the US marines to restore order and supervise finances
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the Mexican revolution
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created constant political instability south of the border and undermined Wilson's hopes for better US relations with Latin America
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"Pancho" Villa's raid on Columbus, New Mexico
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provoked Gernal Pershings punitive expedition into Mexico
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America's close cultural and economic ties with Britain
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cause most Americans to sympathize with the Allies rather than the Central Powers
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Germany's sinking of the Lusitania, Arbis and Sussex
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cause President Wilson and other outraged Americans to demand an end to unrestricted submarine warfare
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Wilsons apparent success in keeping America at peace through diplomacy
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enabled the Democrats to win a narrow presidential victory in the election of 1916
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