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| Founded the first birth control clinic in the U.S. and the American Birth Control League, which later became Planned Parenthood. |
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| Roosevelt used this term to declare that he would use his powers as president to safeguard the rights of the workers |
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| It imposed stricter control over railroads and expanded powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, including giving the ICC the power to set maximum rates |
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| The author who wrote THE JUNGLE book about the horrors of food productions in 1906, the bad quality of meat and the dangerous working conditions |
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| Forbade the manufacture or sale of mislabeled or adulterated food or drugs, it gave the government broad powers to ensure the safety and efficacy of drugs in order to abolish the "patent" drug trade. Still in existence as the FDA. |
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| Increased industrial output by rationalizing and refining the production process. Scientific Management. |
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| A great debater and political leader who believed in libertarian reforms, he was a major leader of the Progressive movement from Wisconsin |
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| Democrats felt it did not go far enough and passed the Underwood Tariff in 1913 to further lower taxes |
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| Taft and Knox cam up with it to further foreign policy in the U.S. in 1909-1913 under the Roosevelt Corollary. It was meant to avoid military intervention by giving foreign countries monetary |
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| The Progressive Party, it was Roosevelt's party in the 1912 election. He ran as a Progressive against Republican Taft, beating him but losing to Democrat Woodrow Wilson |
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| Regulated banking to help small banks stay in business. A move away from laissez-faire policies, it was passed by Wilson |
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| Extended the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 to give it more power against trusts and big business. It outlawed practices that had a dangerous likelihood of creating a monopoly, even if no unlawful agreement was involved, labor's Magna Carta |
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| Smith-Lever Act, Smith-Hughes Act |
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| Established the U.S.'s first Food Administration with the authority to fix food prices, license distributors, coordinate purchases, oversee exports, act against hoarding and profiteering, and encourage farmers to grow more crops |
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Promised Philippine independence. Given freedom in 1917, their economy grew as a satellite of the U.S. Filipino independence was not realized for 30 years.
1917 - Puerto Ricans won U.S. citizenship and the right to elect their own upper house |
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| Britain, France, & Russia planned ambitions and they all disliked Germany, so they formed an alliance for protection |
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| Germany sent this to Mexico instructing an ambassador to convince Mexico to go to war with the U.S. It was intercepted and caused the U.S. to mobilized against Germany, which had proven it was hostile. |
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| Germany, Austria and Hungary formed an alliance for protection from the Triple Entente |
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| Millionaire, he headed the War Industries Board after 1918. |
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| Espionage Act/Sedition Act |
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| Brought forth under the Wilson administration, they stated that any treacherous act or draft dodging was forbidden, outlawed disgracing the government, the Constitution, or military uniforms, and forbade aiding the enemy |
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| Wilson's idea that he wanted included in the WWI peace treaty, including freedom of the seas and the League of Nations. |
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| Debs repeatedly ran for president as a socialist, he was imprisoned after he gave a speech protesting WWI in violation of the Sedition Act. |
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| Creel committee was in charge of propaganda for WWI (1917-1919). He depicted the U.S. as a champion of justice and liberty. |
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