The three C's

• Control of coporations
• Consumer Protection
• Conversation of natural resources

1 C of TR's domestic policy

• He was the "trust buster" 
• believed that goverment is inchared of the country, not BIG BUSINESS
• His plan left honesty companies alone, and broke up/ regulated violators

1 C in TR's domestic policy

• passed Meat Inspection Act
• he was influenced after reading Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 
• and then passed the Pure Food and Drug Act

1 C in TR's domestic policy

• Was the first planned management of naturak resources to prevent destruction of neglect
• stemmed from TR's love of the wilderness
• created the The Newsland Act and the Forest Reserve Act

The Big Stick Policy ("speak softly and carry a big stick)

• speaking softy = use deplomancy
•  carrying a big stick = use military force when needed

William Howard Taft

• during four years as POTUS brought 90 suits (TR= 44 in 7.5 years as POTUS)
• busted Standard Oil Co., and US Steel Corp.

WHT's foregin policy

• invested money in foregin markets to keep forgin competitors from doing the same
• "Why fight when you can buy it?"

What were the progressive's target areas?

1. Muckrakers
2. Race
3. Social gospel
4. Women's Rights
5. Cities
6. Consumer Protection

Social Gospel

One target area of the progressives

One target area of the progressives

Women got the right to..

• Expand rights to make a will
• Earn and dispose of their own wages
• Equal guardianship of chrilden
• vote
• urban reform

one target of the progressives

• They were infulenced by the German model of schooling
• emphasized questioning instead of memorization of facts
• made changes in American Colleges
• wanted to get immigratns out of factories and into classrooms
• wanted education to be free, public and universal

Muckrakers

one of the target areas of progressives

• magazine journalist who invesigated and exposed the corrupt side of buiness and other spical probelsm of public life in the early 1900's

a target area of the porgressives

• Caveat emptor: "may the buyer beware"

a target area of the progressives

Thomas Woodrow Wilson's domestic policy.

• it favored small enterprises, unregulated, un mompolized markets
• not regulation but framentations of big industrial companies (through heavy enforcements)

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

• created a new tariff bill:

-substantial reduction in rates on other import fees

-graduded imcome tax (16 arrangements)

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

• Federal Reserve Act (decentralized private baking under federal contorl)
• created the federal reserve board
• made it so that the amount of money in circulation could be smaller and increased as needed for the legitimate requriments of business

one part of TW's "attack on the triple wall of privilege"

• created the Federal Trade Commission, which crused monopolies
• Clayton Anti-trust Act- an expansasion of the Sherman Anti-trust Act
• prohibited corporations from acquiring another
• Workman's Compensations Act (dcisability insurace)

TW...

• hated imperislism
• got rid of the dollar dipolomancy
• and tried to help with the Mexican revlouion (which got the US on the bad side of Germany eventually leading the US into WW1)

1. Nationalism
2. Imperalism
3. Militarism
4. Alliance Systems

Nationalism

One cause of WW1

A devotion to the intrest and culture of one's country.

• created a competiton and rivalries amoung nations
• ethnic grouns sought independence while under protection of nations

one cause of WW1

The disare for new materials and manufactured goods from other lands

one cause of WW1

The development of armed forves and their use as a tool for diplomancy

• started a news arms race
• Germany becomes the strongest military force on the European continet and seeks to expand Naval power

one cause of WW1

Major defense alliance creates a blance of power

Who the US allined with

included France, England and Russia

The central powers

Included Germany, Italy, and Austris-Hungary (and later the Ottman Empire)

They were the "power keg of Europe"

• The "black hand" terrorist orginization along with Gavriol Princip killed them while they were on a parade

• kind of pused the US into WW1

• killed 128 Americans (1198 total people)

• German foregin minister to Mexico sent a note to the Mexicans that said

"With victory, Mexico will be rewarded with Texas, New Mexico, and Arzona from helping Germany win the war"

• Made American mad.
• The note was found burnt...did it really exist or did the goverment create it to go into war??NO ONE KNOWS.

an advancement in warfare during WW1

•  "No mans land" between the trenches
• Trench foot- a huge killer during the war

an advancement in warfare during WW1

• was the first biologicial warfare
• mustard gas was the most popular

• German U-boats (submarines)
• machine guns
• Tanks
• Aerial combat (dog fights) 
• blimps
• grenades

• Sinking of the Lustianis
• Renewal of unrestriced subverson warface by Germany
• Zimmermann note
• Overthrow of Czar Nichols II
• to make "the work sae for democarcy"