8th US History - Ch 17b (pg 318-328) Flashcards
Which act required that all foods and medicines be properly labeled?
Pure Food and Drug Act
What legislation financed irrigation projects from eh sale of public lands?
Newlands Reclamation Act
Which country experienced more fairness in international trade due to the Open Door Policy?
China
Whom did President Roosevelt appoint to take charge of constructing locks to lower ships to sea level in the Panama Canal?
George Washington Goethals
Who was the most popular President of the early 1900s?
Theodore Roosevelt
What doctor was sent to rid the Panama Canal Zone of tropical fevers?
William Gorgas
What is the name of the author of The Jungle?
Upton Sinclair
Who was the President who supported “Dollar Diplomacy?”
William Taft
What entrepreneur engineered an automobile assembly line and built an automobile that the average American could afford?
Henry Ford
What senator and early leader of the Progressive Movement earned the nickname “Battlin’ Bob”?
Robert La Follette
What man helped rid the Panama Canal zone of infectious diseases?
William Gorgas
What President send the Great White Fleet around the world?
Theodore Roosevelt
By what nickname was Robert La Follette known? and who gave him this nickname?
“Battlin’ Bob” was given his nickname by the Progressives.
For what did President Roosevelt win the Nobel Prize?
He helped to end the Russo-Japanese War.
Who wrote a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
President Teddy Roosevelt
