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Solid South, triumph of Progressivism, Debs gets 900,000 votes

Election of 1912. Solid South, triumph of Progressivism, Debs gets 900,000 votes. The “Phraseocrat” State of the Union Federal Farm Loan Act Seaman’s Act Adamson Act- 8hr days for RR workers Workman’s Compensation Accelerated segregation in Federal bureaucracy (boooooo).

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Solid South, triumph of Progressivism, Debs gets 900,000 votes

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  1. Election of 1912 Solid South, triumph of Progressivism, Debs gets 900,000 votes

  2. The “Phraseocrat” • State of the Union • Federal Farm Loan Act • Seaman’s Act • Adamson Act- 8hr days for RR workers • Workman’s Compensation • Accelerated segregation in Federal bureaucracy (boooooo)

  3. Triple Wall of Privilege: Tariff Banks Trusts

  4. Clayton Anti-Trust Act: The “Magna Carta” of Organized Labor

  5. “Iron Jawed Angels” marching for the 19th Amendment

  6. Wilson’s Foreign Policy • Stopped Dollar Diplomacy • eases anti-Japanese laws Cali • Sends Marines to…. • Haiti, Dominican Rep (8 yrs) • Virgin Islands purchased • Mexico • $1 Bill.US investments • 1913 opp Huerta • 1914 Tampico Incid. • 1914 Carranza Pres. • Pancho Villa invades NM

  7. Tampico Incident

  8. 1914: Occupation of Vera Cruz: 300 Mexicans killed, 90 Americans

  9. “Expeditionary Force” in Vera Cruz

  10. General Pershing in Mexico, 1916

  11. Lusitania sunk in 1915………US enters WWI in 1917 Bryan resigns as Sec of State, 1916 Sussex Pledge

  12. Why America favored the Allies • Belgium atrocities • Cultural similarities with Brits • Germany viewed as “evil monarchy” • British propaganda, control of cable • Geography made trade easier • Greater investment in Allies • Mines and Blockade > sub warfare

  13. Election of 1916 “He kept us out of War”………until chapter 33

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