Apush unit 7 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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Taft-TR Split TR got Taft the presidency, but became annoyed with his conservative policies, esp. when he used the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to break up US Steel which TR thought was a "good trust" Bull Moose Party AKA Progressive Party, started by TR to compete for presidency after Demos. renominated Taft Election of 1912 Repub. vote split by Taft and TR, Demos. won w/ Wilson. Panic of 1907 showed inelasticity of currency and lack of banking reserves in non-cities ...

The "real heart" of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to use the government as an agency of human welfare The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the greenback labor party and the populists Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen B. Jack London C. Jacob Riis D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 1. "bloated trusts" 2. slum conditions 3. "conspicuous consumption" 4. destruction o...

AMSCO APUSH Unit 7 Study Guide

Progressive movement - Reform movements at turn of 20th century through WW1 sought to improve life in industrial age --> through action by government. improve democracy and limit power of corporations. Directly caused by industrialization and urbanization. Progressive reformers - protect social welfare moral improvement efficiency creating economic reform muckrakers - Theodore Roosevelt term for people that wrote about corruption Clayton Antitrust Act - Attempt to improve Sherman Anti...

"The year of the massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890, it was officially declared by the Bureau of the Census that the internal frontier was closed. The profit system, with its natural tendency for expansion, had already begun to look overseas. The severe depression that began in 1893 strengthened an idea developing with the political and financial elite of the country: that overseas markets for American goods might relieve the problem of underconsumption at home and prevent the economic crises that ...

Imperialism A policy in which a strong nation seeks to dominate other countries poitically, socially, and economically. Alfred T. Mahan Wrote "The Influence of Sea Power Upon History;" Argued that the economic future of the United States rested on new overseas markets protected by a larger navy. Social Darwinism 19th century of belief that evolutionary ideas theorized by Charles Darwin could be applied to society. Alaska "Seward's Folly," acquired in 1867 from Russi...

AMSCO APUSH Unit 7 Study Guide

Progressive movement Reform movements at turn of 20th century through WW1 sought to improve life in industrial age --> through action by government. improve democracy and limit power of corporations. Directly caused by industrialization and urbanization. Progressive reformers protect social welfare moral improvement efficiency creating economic reform muckrakers Theodore Roosevelt term for people that wrote about corruption Clayton Antitrust Act Attempt to improve ...

Underwood-Simmons Act Tariff reduced the tariffs from the Payne-Aldrich Tariff to about 29% and included a graduated income tax. It was a milestone in tax legislation since it enacted a graduated income tax. Federal Reserve Board established so that the fed gov't could determine in/out flow of money; print money and send it to fed reserve bank; determine interest rates Federal Trade Commission new committee to enforce antitrust laws, prohibited business combinations in restrain...