Pageant Ch.30

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1. What was the name of Woodrow Wilson's economic plan?

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New Freedom

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1. What did Wilson believe was necessary to help the common man achieve his dream in the United States?

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Better laws to protect the common man from big business.

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1. How GOP (Republican Party) cause the election of 1912 to end up in Woodrow Wilson's hands?

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TR had split from the Republicans to create the Progressive party, or better known as the Bull Moose Party.

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1. Who will become president in the election of 1912?

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Woodrow Wilson

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1. Which creator of Hull House in Chicago will back Theodore Roosevelt in the election of 1912?

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Jane Addams strange since shes anti-war

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1. Whom did Theodore Roosevelt use as his inspiration for his progressive thoughts?

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Herbert Croly and his book The Promise of American Life (1910)

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1. What were some of the campaign topics which the Bull-Moose party championed in 1912 (funny that TR didn't champion them when he was President for TWO terms)?

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Woman's suffrage, broad program of social welfare, minimum-wage, social insurance.

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1. When will some of these campaign topics finally be realized?

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In FDRs presidency in 1933 – 1945

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1. What did Wilson's New Freedom program champion?

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Small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the free functioning of unregulated and unmonopolized markets.

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1. How might Theodore Roosevelt's third term in 1912 change history (nice question to think about if an essay is about Woodrow Wilson or TR's presidency!!!)?

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Might have involved the US earlier in WWI and ended the war with a better peace treaty Possibly avoiding WWII and Hitler.

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1. Woodrow Wilson won a plurality of the popular vote in 1912? What is meant by the term plurality?

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When you win the majority of the minority available.

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1. How was Roosevelt slowed down during the campaign of 1912?

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He was shot on the way to a speech. He had the bullet removed and proceeded to give a two hour speech bleeding and all. (STUD!!!)

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1. After Taft lost the election of 1912 what other careers did he accomplish in his lifetime?

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Taught law for eight years at Yale and in 1921 was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Warren G. Harding

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1. What was Woodrow Wilson's major defect?

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His personality austere and somewhat arrogant intellectual. Too serious. Professorial

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1. What tragedy struck the Wilson's administration personally in 1914 just as WWI was beginning in Europe?

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Wilson's first wife (Ellen) died. He because very distraught and distant. Might account for the lack of US involvement in WWI.

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1. Who will President Woodrow Wilson marry in December of 1915?

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Edith Bolling Gault

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1. What famous historical person was Wilson's wife related to?

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Pocahontas

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1. What was the triple wall of privilege according to Wilson?

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The tariff, the banks, and the trusts

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1. What tariff program will be passed in 1913 which provided for a substantial reduction of tariff rates?

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Underwood Tariff

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1. What consequence will happen because of the tariff program in #20?

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The passing of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution (income tax) to make up the difference from the income lost by lower tariffs.

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1. What type of income tax will be passed in the 16th Amendment (isn't this the reason we had the American Revolution¦according to Mr. Hjort)?

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Graduated income tax

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1. How did Wilson help to solve the problems with the banks?

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He had Congress pass the Federal Reserve Act of 1913

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1. What did the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 do?

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"Created 12 regional reserve districts, each with its own central bank and a Federal Chairman to oversee all of the banks.

The Fed board is in control of the amount of currency printed (inflation) and they are in charge of the interest rates."

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1. What was a Holding Company in the early 20th Century?

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A super company which held more than 50% of the voting stock in other minor holding companies. These minor holding companies would in turn control over 50% of the voting stock of individual corporations pyramid structure.

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1. The Act was known as the Magna Charta of Labor by Samuel Gompers?

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Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914

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1. Why was this act so important?

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Expanded the Sherman Anti-trust act and included banning discrimination and interlocking directories.

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1. What industries would be exempted by this Act from antitrust prosecution?

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Labor and agricultural organizations. It also legalized strikes and peaceful picketing.

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1. How did the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 help farmers?

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It made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest (populists reform).

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1. This act in 1916 established an eight-hour day for all employees on trains in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime.

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Adamson Act of 1916

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1. What Taft foreign policy will Wilson retreat from concerning Latin America?

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Dollar Diplomacy

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1. Why did Wilson cancel this policy?

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He didn't feel it was the USs responsibility to ensure financially Republican forms of government in Latin American Wilson, just a bit of a racist.

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1. What policy will be re-introduced to the White House by Wilson?

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Segregation

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1. What movie will debut in the White House while Wilson was President?

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W. E. Griffiths Birth of a Nation Story of White supremacy

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1. What Mexican president will be overthrown in the Mexican Revolution of 1913?

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General Victorian Huerta

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1. Who will Wilson back to overthrown the leader in #33?

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Venustiano Carranza

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1. Who was a close friend of the man discussed in #34 who will eventually turn against the United States and invaded in Columbus, New Mexico murdering nineteen Americans?

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Francisco Pancho Villa

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1. Which 19 year-old Serbian will be responsible for starting WWI?

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Gavrilo Princip

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1. How did he start the War?

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Assassinating Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Sophie from Austria-Hungary

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1. Which countries were involved in the Triple Entente prior to WWI? What did this alliance become known as when WWI began?

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Great Britain, France and Russia (secret treaty with Serbia); Allies

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1. Which countries were involved in the Triple Alliance prior to WWI? What did this alliance become known as when WWI began?

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Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy; Central Powers

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1. When Italy decided to remain neutral in 1915, what country joined the Central Powers?

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Ottoman Empire

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1. How many Americans were tied because of nationality to the Central Powers in 1914?

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11 million

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1. This man will be responsible for Germany joining WWI against the Allies.

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Kaiser Wilhelm II

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1. How many people were in the United States in 1910 (census)?

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92 million

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1. How did WWI help the United States economy?

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We loaned money to the Allies (2.3 billion). And sold weapons to both sides then primarily to the Allies.

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1. What famous phrase did Wilson create concerning his rationale why American ships should not be targeted by German Unterseeboots ?

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Neutral ships make neutral goods.

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1. What British passenger ship will be sunk in May of 1915 causing the deaths of 1,198 lives including 128 Americans? (we don't go to war because of the sinking of this ship)

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Lusitania

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1. What will be Wilson's reaction to the sinking of this British ship?

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Protests and harsh words, but no action!!!

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1. What was contained in the Sussex pledge of 1915?

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From Germany, If Great Britain would lift their hunger blockade against Germany, Germany would stop unrestricted submarine warfare. (Britain doesn't lift the blockade, causing more ships to be sunk eventually leading the US involvement in WWI)

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1. What was the Democratic party's campaign slogan in 1916?

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He kept us out of war

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1. What happens in April of 1917?

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Wilson asks for a declaration of War

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1. What did Theodore Roosevelt believe was the only difference between Charles Evans Hughes (Republican candidate) and Woodrow Wilson in the Presidential election in 1916?

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A shave--meaning the Hughes was the same as Wilson on the war.

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1. What was the final difference between Hughes and Wilson in the popular vote in the election of 1916?

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600,000+ still pretty close

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1. What state carried by Roosevelt in 1913 will cast their 13 electoral votes to Wilson, giving him a second term?

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CA

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1. Place the following in Chronological order: Underwood Tariff Act, Sussex Pledge, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, Sinking of the Lusitania, Federal Trade Commission established, WWI begins in Europe, Wilson wins his first term.

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Wilson's first term, Underwood Tariff Act, FTC established, Assassination of Franz Ferdinand, WWI begins in Europe, Lusitania sunk, Sussex pledge.