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1898-1921
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open door policy
United States (John Hay) created the policy because of their willing to trade with the Chinese ALL countries have the same rights of trading in China. also guarantted that China would not be taken by any power outside. -
Boxer Rebellion
also know as the Boxer Uprising or Yihetuan Movement. A group of Chinese people that tried to keep harmony and too keep foreign people away in violent ways -
Trust Buster
Theodore Roosevelt was known as the trust buster because he wanted to get rid of all the bussinesses trust. Roosevelt Created the Sherman Anti-trust Act and destroyed the monopoly of the American Sugar Refining Company -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
an agreement between the United States and Panama where the US has permit to build the Panama Canal the The Canal Zone. this also gave the United States control of imports if they wanted to pass by the Panama Canal -
Roosevelt Corollary
speech given by president Theodore Roosevelt on the State Union Address in 1904. Roosevelt said that he would intevere if European Nations tried to colonize in the Western Hemisphere. -
Ida Tarbell & History of the Standard Oil Company
a book that investigates the bussines practices of the Industrialist John D. Rockfeller and writes this book. talks about how the company started and the interest of Rockfeller -
Lincoln Steffens & The shame of the Cities
a book that protrayed the corruption in many big cities in the United States. Also protrayed the suffering and the difficult lifes of immigrants in America -
Upton Sinclair & The Jungle
this book protrayed two things, the life of immigrants in the United States and the corruption of the meatpacking industry in America in the early 20th century. the book also lead to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 -
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
a deduction of tarrifs in goods coming to the United States. Theodore Roosevelt did not liked this and it caused it to break with William Howard Taft -
Federal Reserve System
: an act called the federal reserve act in 1913 established the federal reserve system as the brain of the banking authority in the United States. With the following act, the United States has the rights to protect the peoples credit rights, maintain stability in the financial system, and provide financial aid to the government, public and any institutions -
Louis Brandeis & Other People's Money
a book written by Louis D. Brandeis in 1913 which talked about a balance of big businesses and small corporations. The big corporations should not freeze on make the small companies to closedown -
Clayton Anti Trust Act
enforcement to the Sherman antitrust act of 1890. This act prohibited activities such as unions in big companies or allowing strikes which now were illegal -
Hebert croly & The Promise of the American Life
book written by Herbert Croly and published in 1909 which talked about how people should not care about the competition of big and small companies. The government should protect good trust and should discipline the bad trust -
Federal Trade Commision
passed after Clayton antitrust act. This made the government in charge of big companies. This commission also investigated cases of violations of the Clayton and Sherman antitrust acts. -
16 Amendment
the following amendment authorized collection of income taxes, which was most likely collected by the wealthy people -
Birth of a Nation
: one of the most controversial movies ever made. In 1915 this movie was out and it was one of the most famous movies at that time. The way that they portrayed African American people and the Ku Klux Klan was founded offensive. The movie was banned in various cities because of the things that were involved in the film -
passing the great race
written by Madison grant. He warned the Anglo-Saxon and other Nordic Stock of “pollution” of their race by Europeans, Hispanic and Asians. He also wrote about the dangers of racial “mongrelization”. -
Zimmerman Note
a note sent from Arthur Zimmerman to the ambassador of Germany in Mexico. This note was made so Mexico could join the war with the central powers. If Mexico joined, they would get financial aid from Germany and the territory they lost against the United States. -
Marcus Garvey
Jamaican orator for black nationalist. founded the Universal Negro Improvment Association and African Communities Leage. -
Influenza Epidemic
also known as the Spanish influenza. A horrible event after the World War I where between 20 and 40 people died of the flu, more than in the Great War. In the United States alone, it killed 600,000 in just 10 months
