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Democrats win 1912
Reasons Woodrow Wilson won the election
-supported small businesses and small markets
- problems within the party
- republican conservatives and progressives split over Taft's support of Cannon, House speaker from Illinois
- Bull-moose Platform
- Direct Election of Senators
Adamson act
- Strikes in railroads
President Wilson
Act grave railroad workers
- required additional pay for overtime work
- 8 hour work day
Act was passed in 1915
8 hour labor
8 hour recreation
8 hour rest
Keating Owen act
- 1900 Census - 2 mio children
- National child labor committee hired Lewis HIne
- This act banned the sale of products from
- factories and shops that employed children under the age of 14
- mines that employed children under age 16
- ruled unconstitutional in 1918 - Hammer vs Dagenhart
Clayton Anti -Trust act
- comapnies could not buy stock from another company if it resulted in monopoly
- officers of company prosecuted
-boycott and strike with no interruption
- labor unions/ farm organizations
Federal Trade Commission Act
- Watchdog agency - watches companies and looks if they follow the laws
- periodic reprts from corporations
- 400 cease and desist orders
Federal Farm loan act
- 12 federal land banks
- long term loans with low interest
- farm credit system
Underwood Tariff act
- graduated income tax
- 1913
federal reserve act
- introduced a central bank
- 12 federal reserve banks able to print money
- economic stability
- economic stability
- fed could adjust discount rate/ funds and buy and sell US treasuries
- bankers bank
- raise and lower interests
US neutrality in WWI
- Wilson kept the US out of the great war from 1914-1917
- Must be neutral in fact as well as in name
- impartial in thought as well as in action
- traded with both sides
- ports were open - non military use
- actions by Germany made america favor the entante
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US neutrality in WWI
- looked like America was trading more with the entente powers
- Wilson sent a communique. Germany respected that for a while
- British liner was sunk by a U-boat torpedo
- Germany announced they would begin attacking all merchant ships
- Entered the war on April 6th, 1917
Policy towards African-American
- Washington was highly segregated except in federal offices
- he encouraged people to reserve the idea of no seggregation in the federal offices
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