APUSH - Ch. 29 Study Guide

Question 1

What was the Democratic Party’s platform in the 1912 election

Answer 1

the New Freedom Program - included calls for stronger antitrust legislation, banking reform, and tariff reductions

Question 2

What was the significance of Jane Addams nomination of T. Roosevelt in 1912? (2)

Answer 2

she nominated him to symbolize the rising status of women and to give Progressive support for the cause of social justice

Question 3

Describe Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism. (2)

Answer 3

reform program devised by journalist Herbert Croly

instead of trying to consolidate trusts and labor unions, he sought to create stronger regulatory agencies to insure that they operated to serve the public interest

Question 4

Describe Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom. (3)

Answer 4

called for a stronger antitrust legislation

banking reform

tariff reductions

Question 5

Match each 1912 presidential candidate below with his political party.
A. Woodrow Wilson B. Theodore Roosevelt C. William Howard Taft D. Eugene V. Debs

(4)

Answer 5

A. Woodrow Wilson B. = Democrat
B. Theodore Roosevelt = Progressive
C. William Howard Taft = Republican
D. Eugene V. Debs = socialist

Question 6

According to the text, the runaway philosophical winner in the 1912 election was

Answer 6

progressivism rather than Wilson

Question 7

To secure passage of the Underwood Tariff Bill, Wilson broke new ground by

Answer 7

Encouraged ppl to write to congress

Question 8

In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to Jefferson’s day when he

Answer 8

Gave his proposal in person

Question 9

What were the provisions of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution?

Answer 9

The Congress has the power to lay and collect income taxes

Question 10

Describe the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Answer 10

established 12 regional Federal Reserve banks and a federal reserve board, appointed by the president to regulate banking and create stability on a national scale in the banking sector

Question 11

What does the Federal Trade Commission do? (4 or so)

Answer 11

empowered a standing, presidentially appointed commission to investigate illegal business practices in interstate commerce like unlawful competition, false advertising and mislabeling of goods

Question 12

What were the provisions of the Clayton Anti-trust Act?

Answer 12

extended the anti-trust protections of the Sherman anti-trust act and exempting labor unions and agricultural organizations from antimonopoly constraints

Question 13

Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, what did Samuel Gompers call “labor’s Magna Charta?”

Answer 13

The Clayton Act b/c it legally lifted human labor out of the category of “a commodity or article of commerce.”

Question 14

The first Jewish member of the United States Supreme Court, appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was

Answer 14

Louis D. Brandeis

Question 15

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

Answer 15

it stopped short of better treatment of blacks

Question 16

What were some of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy decisions? (4)

Answer 16

disliked an aggressive foreign policy

declared war on dollar diplomacy — declared that the Gov. wouldn’t offer special support to American investors in Latin America and China

Jones Act of 1912 - granted to the Philippines the boon of territorial status and promoted independence as soon as a “stable government” could be established

made Haiti an American protectorate - also concluded a treaty with Haiti providing for U.S. supervision of finances and the police

Question 17

How would you characterize Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy?

Answer 17

Moralistic

Question 18

Describe Wilson’s intervention in Mexico.

Answer 18

the Tampico Incident - an arrest of American sailors by the Mexican Gov. that spurred Wilson to dispatch the American Navy to seize the port of Veracruz in April 1914

Question 19

Why did we trade more with England than we did with Germany? (2)

Answer 19

b/c Britain had close ties with America culturally, linguistically, and economically

they also had the advantage of controlling most of the transatlantic cables

Question 20

How did Americans feel about the war in Europe? (2)

Answer 20

they were Anti-German, but most of the people wanted to stay out of it

Question 21

What economic benefit did America get from World War I? (2)

Answer 21

neutral trading rights profits with the Allies

a boom of industry prosperity financed by American Bankers

Question 22

Why did Germany resort to submarine warfare?

Answer 22

retaliation, because Britain set up a blockade and Germans didn’t like that, so Berlin announced a war area around the British Isles

Question 23

Describe the conditions of the Sussex Pledge (2)

Answer 23

that the Germans renounce the inhuman practice of sinking merchant ships without warning or else Wilson would break diplomatic relations with them

Germany demanded that they would do that as long as the U.S. would have to persuade the Allies to modify what Berlin regarded as their illegal blockade

Question 24

What was Wilson’s base of support in the 1916 election? (2)

Answer 24

Midwesterners and westerners who were attracted to Wilson’s progressive reforms and antiwar policies