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Chapter 29 Questions
Sanjana Satish

1. Roosevelt campaigned for female suffrage and a broad program of social welfare, such as minimum-wage laws and "socialistic" social insurance. Wilson's New Freedom favored small enterprise, desired to break up all trusts.
2. With the Republican split, Woodrow Wilson easily won with 435 electoral votes, while Roosevelt had 88 and Taft only had 8. But the Democrats did not receive the majority of the popular vote. Socialist Eugene V. Debs racked up over 900,000 popular votes while the combined popular totals of Roosevelt and exceeded Wilson.
3. Woodrow Wilson was a sympathizer with the South. He was a fine orator, a sincere and morally appealing politician, austere, intolerant of stupidity, very idealistic, and a very intelligent man. He also had a cold personality. When convinced he was right, Wilson would break before he would bend, unlike Roosevelt.
4. The three parts of the “triple wall of privilege” were the tariff, the banks, and the trusts.
5. It had a nationwide system of twelve regional reserve districts, each with its own central bank and the power to issue paper money.
6. In 1914, Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act which empowered a president- appointed position to investigate the activities of trusts and stop unfair trade practices such as unlawful competition, false advertising, mislabeling, adulteration, & bribery. The 1914 Clayton Anti-Trust Act lengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act's list of practices that were objectionable, exempted labor unions from being called trusts, and legalized strikes and peaceful picketing by labor union members.
7. Wilson proceeded with further reforms such as the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 which made credit available to farmers at low rates of interest, and the Warehouse Act of 1916 which permitted loans on the security of staple crops. The La Follette Seamen's Act of 1915 required good treatment of America's sailors, but it sent merchant freight rates

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