Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Woodrow
Wilson
1912-1921
- social justice
- Keating-Owen Act (1916)
- against child labour
- stopped transport/ trade of goods
made by children under 14 years
- aided farmers
- Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)
- loans in local district
- gave farmers the chance for long-term mortgage
loans- not available in commercial banks
- Smith-lever Act (1914)
- home instruction- helping farmers
- Adamson Act (1916)
- for interstate
commerce
railroad workers
- overtime pay
- 8 hour day
- Robert La Follette (1855-1925)
- 1912- wanted to run for president
- overshadowed by Roosevelt
- led
progressive
'insurgent'
republicans
- La Follette
Seaman's
Act (1915)
- for sailors and merchant seamen
- aided safety,
payment, and
working
conditions
- League of Nations
- personal battle
- peace through
compromise
- Economy
- money trust
- Federal Reserve Act
- created a nation wide system of credit
administered by an independent Federal
Reserve Board
- regulated the rates of interest and currency
circulation in 12 different districts of USA
- stimulate economy by easy cash movement
- anti-trust
- new Anti-trust Act (1914)
- superseded Sherman Anti-trust Act
- Clayton Anti-trust Act
- aided workers and farmers
- Federal trade
commission 1914
- 5 members watched interstate
trade businesses
- annual reports
- explained strikes, boycotts and
picketing were legal under federal
law
- some courts had claimed
them so as they acted 'in
restraint of trade'
- limited injunctions
used to stop strikes
- restricted busines
- no price fixing
- less holding of one
business stock by
another
- weakened holding companies
- directorates linking big business
of interstate trade