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Cards In This Set
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Woodrow Wilson Beliefs
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Against trst, for reform, bank reform and reduced tariffs
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Socialist who ran in presidential elections
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Eugene V. Debs
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Underwood Tariff
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Reduction of rates and import fees
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16th Amendment
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Graduated income tax
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Federal Reserve Act
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Federal Reserve Board oversaw system of 12 regional reserve districts, each with central bank
Guaranteed good amount of public control
Empowered to issue paper money backed by commercial paper
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Increased reform thinking with book Other People's Money and How the Bank Uses It
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Federal Trade Commission ACt of 1914
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President appointed commission to search interstate commerce industries, to crush monopolies
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Clayton Anti Trust ACt of 1914
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Lengthened list of objectionable business practices, sought to exempt labor and agriculture from anti trust persecution, legalized strikes and picketing
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Ffederal Farm Loan Act of 1916
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Made credit available to farmers at low interest
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Warehouse Act of 1916
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Authorized loans on security of staple crops
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La Follette Seaman's Act of 1915
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Required decent treatment and living wage on US merchant ships, hurt merchant marine
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Adamson Act of 1916
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8 hr day for all employees on trains with extra for overtime
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Louis D. Brandeis
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Progressive and First Jew on Supreme Court
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Panama Canal Tolls Act of 1912
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Exempted US coast shipping from tolls, protested by Britain
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Jones Act
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Gave Philippines territorial status and promised independence when they got stable gvt
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