HIST 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Federal Reserve Act, Zimmermann Telegram, Central Powers
10 Oct 2015
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Outline/study guide hist 130 week 11 & 12, csuc sp. Foreign policy strategies: theories of anglo-saxon racial superiority; hawaii. Causes: cuban insurgency, yellow journalism (pulitzer and hearst). Splendid little war smoked yankees remember the maine rise of t. r. 1. social reform movement - pressured governments and other municipal agencies for better community services. Sought labor reforms such as minimum wage, maximum hours, workers" compensation and widows" pensions: temperance movement intensified 18th amendment, child labor laws, socialism, a reformist political philosophy, became very popular: Socialist party of america 1901, eugene v. debs: political reforms direct primary, initiative, referendum, recall. Other reforms - public ownership of utilities, regulatory commissions. Pure food and drug act & meat inspectors act. Conservation - to tr meant the wise use of natural resources not non use . Taft"s dollar diplomacy. substitute economic ties for military alliances. Republicans split: taft"s unpopularity; democrats gain in elections of 1910. Federal reserve act 1913, created a central banking system.
