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Open Doors Note
letters addressed to the leasers if imperoalist nations proposing that the station share meant thattrading rights with the United States -
TrustBusting
Legal bodies created to hold stack in many companies-controlled about four-fiths of the industries in the united states. Northeern Securites Company which had establisheda monoply over northwestern railroads. 1904 Supreme Court dissolved the company -
Foraker Act
Ended military rule and set up a civlil governent. Gave the united states president power to appoint Puerto ricoa governor and members of the upper house. -
Platt Amendment
Cuba could not make any treaties, was not to go in debt
United states could buy or lease land on the island for naval stations and refuling stations -
Coal Strike
140,000 went on strikewanted a 20% raise a nine hour workday and the right to organize a union they refused to bargain. Roosevelt threatened to take over the mines. The miners gave in and got a 10% raise, nine hour workdays. They had to give up their demand for closer shop-in which all the workers must belong to the union and their right to strike for three years. -
Constructiong The Canal
Started to build clearing the brush anddraining of swamps August 5 1914 it opened. -
Pure Food and Drug Act
Tell whats all in the fod and all in the druges you are taking so oyu know if you are alergic or if it will harm you in anyway. -
Seventheenth Amendment
An amendment to the U.S. constituation, adopted in 1913 that provides for the election of the U.S. senators by the people rather than by state legislatures. -
Lusitania
U boat sunk off the southern coast of Ireland. 1,198 people died. 128 were Americans -
War Industries Board
ecourage companies to use mass-production to increase efficiency. To help keep jobs. -
Espionage and Sedition Act
1917 Esionage was passed 1918 Sedition act was passed. a person could be fied up to 10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the wareffort or for saying anything disloyal, profane, or abusive about the goverment or war effort. -
America Act.
Supreme Court to hear President Wilson deleiver his war resolution. -
the Flu Epidemic
United States Suffered a homefront crisis when and international flu epidemic affected aone-quater of the U.S, population. -
Prohibition & Prohibitionist
the banning aof alcoholic beverages, was one such prgram. Groups feared that alcogol as undermeaning American mmorals founded in Cleveland 1874. -
Pearl Harbor
Helped the united states
