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Addition of National Parks; National Forester Pinchot
Ulysses Grant signed a bill to create Yellowstone National Park. Pinchot and other foresters contributed greatly to the formation of other parks. -
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America 1900-1921
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National Reclamation Act
Made to encourage familes to settle in the West by converting federal land to agriculturally productive land. -
Coal Strike Mediated
Workers recieved 10% increase and other demands, but were not recognized. -
Muckrakers: Progressive Era Reformers
Reform-oriented journalists who exposed human and civil rights violations caused by the governent, corporations, etc. -
Hay-Bunau Varilla Treaty
Established the Panama Canal Zone and its construction. -
Dollar Diplomacy
Intervention in South America including Venezuela, to protect US businesses economic interests. -
Booker T Washington and the Atlanta Compromise
Washington asked whites to allow Negroes to learn vocational skills and earn a living. -
Hepburn Act
Gave Interstate Commerce Comission power to set maximum railroad rates. -
Panama Canal
Began construction in 1906, finished in 1914. The US worked with this country to have a share of the land and benefit from the canal. -
W.E.B DuBois- NAACP
Activist who helped form an influential civil rights organization. -
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Cut tariffs on certain goods entering the US. caused Teddy Roosevelt to have conflict with Taft and seek election in 1912 -
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Taft fired Chief Forrester Pinchot gor accusing interior Secretary Ballinger of benefiting business interests at the expense of US natural resources. -
Trust Buster
Carried out anti-trust policies against US Steel and breaks up Standard Oil Co. -
Underwood- Simmons Tariff
Lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%. -
16th Amendment
Progressive income tax, (taxing the rich) -
Federal Trade Commission
This organization investigated corporation violations "anti-trust laws" -
Military Intervention in Vera Cruz
During April-Nov, the US military controlled the city after Mexican officials seized US sailors and refused to apologize. -
Madison Grant's Passing of the Great Race
This was an influental book on scientific racism. -
Marcus Garvey
Advocated pride in African Heritage and the return to Africa for full equality. -
Margaret Sanger
Founds American Birth Control League aka Planned Parenthood.
