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It stated that all paper money would be backed only by gold. Government had to hold gold in reserve in case people decided they wanted to trade in their money
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Was a treaty between the U.S. and Cuba that attempted to protect Cuba's independence from foreign intervention.
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Became the 26th President after President McKinley was assassinated. 1901-1909
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invented by Miller Reese Hutchison
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Established the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent construction of the Panama Canal.
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Invented by the Wright brothers
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Justified American intervention throughout the Western Hemisphere. Last resort option
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International labor union
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formally ended the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War
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United States federal law that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) the power to set maximum railroad rates and extend its jurisdiction.
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Informal agreement between the United States of America and the Empire of Japan whereby the United States would not impose restrictions on Japanese immigration, and Japan would not allow further emigration to the United States.
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Oregon passed a law that said that women could work no more than 10 hours a day in factories and laundries. Muller violated this law.
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Between the United States and Japan that averted a drift toward possible war by mutually acknowledging certain international policies and spheres of influence in the Pacific.
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Was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anticompetitive actions.
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Woodrow Wilson becomes the 28th President (Democrat )
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Allowing the federal government to impose an income tax.
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Requiring the direct election of senators by popular vote
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Created the federal reserve system, the central banking system of the united states, which was signed into law by Woodrow Wilson. it regulated banking to help smaller banks stay in business.
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After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Central powers vs. Allie powers
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Added to the Sherman law's list of objectionable trust practices by forbidding price discrimination; a different price for different people, and interlocking directorates; the same people serving on "competitors" boards of trustees.
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The Lusitania was a British passenger ship that was sunk by a German U-Boat.
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United States sent Marines into Haiti to restore order and maintain political and economic stability in the Caribbean.
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Germany had instituted a policy of unrestricted submarine warfare, allowing armed merchant ships, but not passenger ships, to be torpedoed without warning
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African Americans looked to the north for Jobs they did this with hope of finding the freedom and economic opportunities 1916-1917
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joined allies
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People could be punished for obstructing military recruitment, or for causing disloyalty or insubordination within the armed forces, or for conspiring to obstruct recruitment or cause insubordination.
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Created to feed wartime America and its allies.
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Woodrow Wilson's peace plan to end WWI. It calls for free trade; an end to secret pacts between nations; freedom of the seas; arms reduction; and the creation of a world organization
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Purpose of preventing strikes that would disrupt production in war industries.
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Made it a crime for anyone to write or print articles criticizing the government.
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End of war
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Period in US when there was a suspicion of communism and fear of widespread infultration of communism in US. 1919-1920
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The raids were when the FBI would go into houses and business of people looking for anything associated with communism Nov 1919- Jan 1920
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This banned the sale, manufacture and transportation of alcohol
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A socialist named Charles Schenck distributed anti-war materials in the mail. The Supreme Court found him guilty of posing a clear and present danger during wartime
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Specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act."
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Peacemakers summoned representatives of the new German Republic to the palace of Versailles outside Paris. The Germans were ordered to sign the treaty drawn up by Allies. German reparations would come to over $30 billion dollars. They were forced to assume full responsibility for causing the war.
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palmer raids end
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Prohibits and citizen to be denied the right to vote based on gender.
