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25 Cards in this Set
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Upton Sinclair
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He made the meat inspection act happen by his book. The jungle.
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William Howard Taft
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President of the US he brock up stander oil trust but there then that he didn't do much.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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strengthened the national government by using the shurman anti-trust act did belive that there were good trust and bad ones. strengthen interstate commerce commission, passed the meat inspection act and pure food and drug act. Able to hand pick his successor. made an income tax, and protected wild.
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Woodrow Wilson
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President of the US try to break up as many trust as possible by the clayton anti-trust act. passed warehouse act gave credit to famers storing there crops in federal stored. reduced duties on imports, and mad the adamson act creared 8 hour work day for RR.
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Elihu Root
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formed the US army war college. President Roosevelt named Root to be the United States Secretary of State after the death of John Hay. maintained the Open Door Policy in the Far East. established the Root-Takahira Agreement, which limited Japanese and American naval fortifications in the Pacific.
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pless castle decision
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german empire reinstead U-Boat warfar in world war I this brought US into the war.
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Sacco and Vanzetti
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two iltainans ancorsest who were put to death for murdering a bank employee
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Oliver Wendell Homes, Jr.
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made up the term used by lawer clear and presendent danger justice during Schenck v. United States, upheld the esbeonsed act. was for the bill of rights.
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Louis D. Brandeis
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consider the people's attorney son of jew immagrant graduate of louisberrge. Had harvards highest GPA 100. was the lawer for muller vs. Oregon. was for the bill of rights
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Muller vs. Oregon
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this is a law that was limiting the number of hours for women working in a londry matt. Louis Brandeis had 100 briffs that told how women were the weaker sex.
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John w. Davis
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U.S. Ambassador to the UK under woodrow willison.Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States during the 1924 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent Calvin Coolidge
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Alfred E. Smith
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4 terms as governor of new york, Irish Roman Cathlic, democratic candiante in 1928. The first irsh american to run for president.
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James M. Cox
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Progressive D nomoneie in 1920 was against harding. governer of ohio.
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Calvin Coolidge
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preisedent after harding was the prisendent before hoover. pro bussiness
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charles evan hughes
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1916 candant for the R he is a progressive. lost to willison
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alice paul
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quacker women she led a successful campaign for women's suffrage that resulted in the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
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platt amendment
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replacing the earlier Teller Amendment conditions for the withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba since the Spanish-American War, and defined the terms of Cuban-U.S. this ensured U.S. involvement in Cuban affairs, both foreign and domestic, and gave legal standing to U.S. claims to certain economic and military territories on the island including Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
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edward m. house
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American diplomat although he had no military experience, he had enormous personal influence with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as his foreign policy advisor until Wilson removed him in 1919.
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bryce report
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descibed how germany treaded belgum country such as destroying libarta, stovaling of women and children this was not true
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kellege briand pact
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There would be no aggressive wars just defence wars
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5 power pact
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hugh build new build ship and scraping dreadnot that we already had. told how any ships in ton each country could have. this causes problem in WWII
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4 power pact
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plegued a states quro in the pacific
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9 power pact
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some intrust in china. reconized the open door policy
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McNovy-Haugon bill
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raised farm prices never became a law
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bailey v. drerol furnitore company.
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banning anything made by child labor in interstate commer. unconstutional interfered with right of the state
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