807 Quiz 1- Changing Frontiers Flashcards
Who worked to make factories safer and more efficient?
Frank Gilbreth
Who developed early automobiles
Henry Ford, Duryea Brothers, Random Olds
Who assassinated President McKinley?
Leon Czolgosz
Taft won election because of whose help?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who was the democratic Presidential candidate who won the election because of Republican Party division?
Woodrow Wilson
The Eighteenth Amendment made producing, selling, and transporting what, illegal?
Alcohol
What did reform groups focus on after 1900?
Corruption in business and government
What allows voters to choose who runs for public office?
direct primary election
What was the Progressive Party nicknamed in 1912?
The Bull Moose Party
Which two presidents were agreed in their progressive ideals, but disagreed in how they handled Trusts?
Wilson and Roosevelt
What requires the legislature to allow voters to approve or reject new laws?
A referendum
What act required manufacturers to list the ingredients in their products?
The Pure Food and Drug Act
What makes it possible for voters to petition for corrupt politicians to be removed from office?
Recall
What three areas were reformed by Roosevelt’s Square Deal?
1) regulation of railroads 2) food and drug laws 3) conserving natural resources
Who wrote a book describing the conditions of the Chicago meat-packing industry?
Upton Sinclair
How did Progressives prefer cities be run?
With a commission instead of a by a mayor
What gave voters the right to elect United States senators?
Seventeenth Amendment
Who was the president who had previously served as governor of New York and Vice President?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who developed a successful manned, powered aircraft?
The Wright Brothers
Journalists who worked to make people aware of inequality and dishonesty in America were called what?
Muckrakers
What made it possible for voters to offer new laws to be voted upon?
initiative
An impartial commission listens to both sides and proposes a solution in a process called what?
Arbitration
Who achieved fame as leader of the Rough Riders?
Theodore Roosevelt
