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Adamson Act |
This law established an eight hour day for all employees on trains involved in interstate commerce, with extra pay for overtime. |
Was the first federal law regulating the hours of workers in private companies, and was upheld by the Supreme Court Wilson v new 1917a |
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Allies |
Great Britain, Russia, and France,later joined by Italy,Japan, and the United States, formed this alliance against the central powers in world war 1 |
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Central powers |
Germany and Austria-Hungary,later joined by Turkey and Bulgaria, made up this alliance against the allies in world war 1 |
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Clayton anti-trust Act |
Law extending the anti-trust protections of the Sherman anti-trust act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints. |
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Federal Reserve act |
1913 an act establishing twelve regional federal reserve banks and a federal reserve board, appointed by the president, to regulate banking and create stability on a national scale in the volatile banking sector. |
The law carried the nation through the financial crisis of the First World War 1914-1918 |
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Federal trade commission act |
A banner accomplishment of Woodrow wilsons administration, this law empowered a standing presidentially appointed commission to investigate illegal business practices in interstate commerce like unlawful competition , false advertising and mislabeling of goods |
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Holding companies |
A company that owns part of all the other companies stock in order to extend monopoly control . Often a holding company does not produce goods or service of its own but only exist to control other companies |
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Jones act |
Law according to territorial status to the phillipines and promising independence as soon as a "stable government" could be established . |
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Lusitania |
British passenger liner torpedoed and sank by Germany may 7,1915. |
Ended the lives of 1,198 people and 128 Americans pushing the us close to war |
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New freedom |
Platforms and reforms advocated by Woodrow Wilson in his first presidential campaign including his stringer antitrust legislation to protect small businesses from monopolies banking reform and tariff reductions . |
Roosevelt wanted to create a stronger regulatory agencies to insure that they operated to serve the public interest not just private gain |
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New nationalism |
State interventionist reform program devised by journalist Herbert crony and advocated Theodore Roosevelt during his bull moose presidential campaign |
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