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16th Amendment
Progressive federal income tax (more than 3K)
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17th Amendment
Direct election od senators
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18th amendment
Prohibition
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19th amendment
women’s sufferage
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Recall
- State
- Remove on elected official through
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Initiative
- State
- Voter ability to propose legislation
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Referendum
- State
- Reconsideration of existing legislation
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Upton Sinclair
- Writes “The Jungle”
- Meat – packing industry
- FDA forms in response
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Alice Paul
- Pushing women suffer age leads
- National Women’s Party
- 19th amendment passed/ratified
- Uses aggressive taches to pass legislation (protect/hungers strikers)
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Muckrakers
- Investigative reporters
- Seeking areas needing reform
- Urban – focused
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Keating Owen Act
- Creates child-labor laws
- Minimum working age
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Adamson Act
8hr work day for RR
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Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
- Workman’s compensation
- Workplace safety
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Square Deal/Bull MooseParty (3rd Party 1912 election)
- T. Roosevelt campaign slogan
- Promises equal access for all Americans to economic system
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New Freedom
- W. Wilson campaign slogan
- Focuses on trust busting
- Will allow increased business/investing
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NAACP
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Legal organization
- White dominated/led
- Middle class
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Social Gospel
- 1. Counters ideology of gospel of wealth
- a. Man ha obligation to assist poor through relief/public programs
- 2. Multi-denominational
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Dual Alliance
- Germany & Austria-Hungary
- Neutrality unless Russia attack
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- Franz Ferdinand
- Hackduke
- King in waiting
- Associated by black Hand (Serbia)
- Pushes A-H to issue Serbia Ultimatum
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Serbian Ultimatum
Blank check
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Schlieffen Plan
- Germany’s plan for 2 front war
- a. Easter Front
- b. West Front
- c. Executed
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Trench Warfare
- Stalemated war afforded
- Series of trenches stretching north to south through Europe
- Primarily in France
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Zimmerman Telegram
- Germany to Mexico
- Unrestricted sub war face will resume
- Keep America out of war
- Keep America out of war through Mexican invasio
- Leads to U.S. entry into WWI
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Alfred Sloan
- GM cars
- New Model concepts
- Anto loans
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Xenophobia
- Fear of immigrants
- Bringing new political ideologies, non Christian religious
- Competition for jobs & resources
- Will attempt to limit immigration/inclusion
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National Origins Act of 1924
- Establish a quote system for immigration
- 2% of an immigrant groups population 1890 allowed in
- no Asians
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Marcus Garvey
- Black Moses
- UNIA
- Promote colonization
- Raise funds & live country
- Jailed from
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Teapot Dome Scandal
- Members of Hardin’s administration leasing national lands for oi/ gas drilling
- Conception leads to Harding’s death
- Calvin Coolidge assumes control of administration turns economy over to big business w/responsibility
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Hoovervilles
- Shanty towns formed by America’s homeless
- Hoover blamed for lack of governmental response
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Reconstruction finance Corporation
- Hoover’s attempt to minimize impact of Great Depression
- Private credit pool to be created big big business
- Asks for 500m/receives 55m
- Shows Hoovers inability to grass severy/causes of G.D.
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First 100 Days
- Historically tenor of presidency set inside first 100 days
- DFR news set new deals programs
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Dust Bowl
- Metrological phenomenon that dries out south/west heading to collapse of farming industry
- Increase the number of unemployed forcing PDR to address multiple aspects of the G.D.
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CCC (civil conservation corp.)
- Roosevelt’s Tree Army
- Jobs creation program
- Emphasis on conservation
- Residential program
- Men (18-24)
- Non- deficit program
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WPA
- Jobs creation program
- Most expensive
- Emphasis on arts, culture, conversation, construction…
- Open to all genders, races, ages
- Defre it program
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Huey Long
- LA
- Share Our Wealth
- 100% tax on incomes over $1M
- Guarantee pensions at retirement
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Francis Townshend
- Mandatory retirement at 60
- Create more (Issuer paying) jobs
- Gov. pensions to support retired
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Court Packing
- FDR’s attempt to validate New deal Legislation
- Expands court size
- Mandatory retirement at 70
- New Justice for every non-retiring justice
- Will be the civil rights court
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