History Test 1. Part 2

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A provision to President Wilson McKinley's War plans that proclaimed to the world that when the United States had overthrown Spanish misrule, it would give Cuba its freedom. The amendment testified to the ostenisibly Anti-Imperialist designs of the initial War plans.

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Teller Amendment 1898

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Following its military occupation, the United States successfully pressured the Cuban government to write this amendment and its Constitution. It limited Cuba's treaty-making abilities, controlled its debt, and stipulated that the United States could intervene militarily to restore order when it saw fit.

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Platt Amendment 1901

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A set of diplomatic letters in which Secretary of State John Hay orange the great powers to respect Chinese rights and free and open competition within their spheres of influence. The notes established the open door policy, which sought to ensure to the Chinese market for the United States, despite the fact that it did not have a formal sphere of influence in China.

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Open Door note 1899 - 1900

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A Brazen policy of preventative intervention advocated by Theodore Roosevelt and his annual message to Congress in 1904. Adding blast to the Monroe Doctrine, is Corey stipulated that the United States would retain a right to intervene in the domestic affairs of Latin American nations in order to restore military and financial order.

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Roosevelt Corollary 1904

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Bright Young reporters at the turn of the 20th century who won this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt but boosted the circulations of their magazines by writing expose as of widespread corruption in American society. Their subjects included business manipulation of government, white slavers, child labor, and the illegal Deeds of the truss. These reporters helped spur the passage of Reform legislation.

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Muckrakers

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A law passed by Congress to subject meat shipped over state lines to Federal inspection. The publication of Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle earlier that year so disgusted American consumers with his description of conditions in slaughterhouses in Meatpacking plants that mobilize public support for government action.

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Meat Inspection Act of 1906

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A law passed by Congress to inspect and regulate the labeling of all Foods in Pharmaceuticals intended for human consumption. This legislation, and additional Provisions passed in 1911 to strengthen it, aimed particularly at the patent medicine industry. The more comprehensive Food, Drug, and cosmetic Act of 1938 largely replace legislation.

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Pure Food and Drug Act 1906

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Name applied by President Taft's criticism to the policy of supporting us Investments and political interest abroad. First apply to the financing of Railways in China after 1909, the policy then spread to Haiti, Honduras, and Nicaragua. President Woodrow Wilson disavowed the practice, but his administration undertook the comparables act of intervention in support of us businesses interest, especially in Latin America.

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Dollar Diplomacy

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Platform of reforms advocated by Woodrow Wilson in his first presidential campaign, including stronger antitrust legislation to protect small business enterprises from monopolies, banking reform, and tariff reductions. Wilson strategy involves taking action to increase opportunities for capitalist competition rather than increasing government regulation of large Trust.

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New Freedom 1912

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This tariff provided a substantial reduction of rates and enacted an unprecedented, graduated federal income tax. My 1917, revenue from the income tax surpassed receipts from the Tariff, a gap that has since been vastly widened.

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Underwood Tariff of 1913

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An act establishing 12 regional federal reserve banks and Federal Reserve board, appointed by the president, to regulate Banking and create stability on a national scale and the volatile banking sector. Blue all carried the nation through the financial crisis of the first World War of 1914 through 1918.

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Federal Reserve Act 1913

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Law extending the antitrust protections of the Sherman Antitrust Act and exempting labor unions in agricultural organizations from anti-monopoly constraints. The act conferred long-overdue benefits on labor.

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Clayton Antitrust Act 1914

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Secret proposal by German foreign secretary Arthur Zimmermann for a German Mexican alliance against the United States. When the note was intercepted and published in March 1917, it caused an uproar that made some Americans more willing to enter the war.

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Zimmerman Telegram 1917

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British liner torpedoed and sank off the coast of Ireland in 1915 including the death of 128 Americans.

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Lusitania