Battle For National Reforms

Question 1

Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 1

Took the presidents seat after McKinley was assassinated, youngest president to take office, was a progressive president

Question 2

Trust Buster

Answer 2

Was the idea of eliminating all trust in the US

Question 3

Norther Securities Company

Answer 3

400 dollar enterprise by JP Morgan was broken by the Justice department, the Sherman antitrust act invoked against the firm

Question 4

Square Deal

Answer 4

Promised to give everyone a square deal first target was railroad rates, was Roosevelt’s promise of an equal deal to all suits

Question 5

Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act

Answer 5

Returned regulatory authority to the government in overseeing railroad rates

Question 6

Meat inspection act

Answer 6

Helped eliminate many diseases once transmitted in impure meats

Question 7

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 7

Chief forester who tried to size a million forests and some water power sites still in public domain

Question 8

John Muir

Answer 8

Founder and leader of the Sierra club, leading preservatists

Question 9

National Reclamation Act/ Newlands Act

Answer 9

Provided federal funds for the constructions of dams, reservations, and canals in the west

Question 10

Forest Reserve Act

Answer 10

Allowed the president to set aside land demo the land in public domain

Question 11

William H Taft

Answer 11

Assumed the presidency in 1909

Question 12

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Answer 12

Reduced tariff rates scarcely at all and in some areas raises them, created by Taft

Question 13

New Nationalism

Answer 13

Teddy Roosevelts set of principles that made clear he was no longer as cautious and conservative as he had been. He argued that social justice was only possible through vigorous federal government help and welfare

Question 14

Progressive Party

Answer 14

Roosevelt’s party bull moose that he launched when he ran for president in 1912

Question 15

Woodrow Wilson

Answer 15

Democratic nominee for president in 1912, only true progressive democrat

Question 16

New freedom

Answer 16

Wilson’s progressive program, differed from Roosevelt’s plan in its views on economic policies and the trusts

Question 17

Colonel Edward M House

Answer 17

Wilson’s most powerful advisor, he was from Texas and has never held any political position before. Ne was only a presidential advisor because of his relationship with Wilson

Question 18

Underwood Simmons Tariff

Answer 18

Also known as USA Revenue Act of 1913, it re-imposed the federal income tax following the ratification of the 16th amendment and lowered tariff rates from 40% to 25% and was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913.

Question 19

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Answer 19

Amendment passed by US congress in 1914 that further proudly Clarification and substance to the Sherman antitrust act of 1840 ok topic shush as price discrimination
, price fixing, and unfair business practices

Question 20

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 20

Created and established Federal Reserve system, the central banking system of the USA and which created the authority to issue federal reserve notes (US dollar)

Question 21

Federal Trade Commission

Answer 21

Established the federal trade commission, outlaws unfair methods of competition and outlaws unfair acts or practices the affect commerce

Question 22

Louis Brandeis

Answer 22

Showed problems of the USA banking system and was the 18th Jewish Supreme Court justice

Question 23

Portsmouth Conference

Answer 23

Formally ended the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-1904. The negotiation took place in August in Portsmouth, NH and were brokered in part by US president Theodore Roosevelt

Question 24

Russo Japanese War

Answer 24

Military conflict in which Japan defeated Russia becoming the first Asia power to defeat a European power. Roosevelt helped and this war

Question 25

Yellow Peril

Answer 25

Peoples in Asia are a danger to the western world

Question 26

Great White Fleet

Answer 26

Sixteen battleships of the new American Navy that were painted white and sailed around the world to show off our navy

Question 27

Roosevelt Corollary

Answer 27

The us has the right to oppose European intervention in the Western Hemisphere but also to interfere itself in the domestic affairs of its neighbors if those neighbors proved unable to maintain order and national sovereignty on their own give us international police powers in the Western Hemisphere

Question 28

Panama Canal

Answer 28

Linked Atlantic and the pacific by creating a channel through Central America

Question 29

Hay-Pauncefote

Answer 29

Us and Great Britain canceled an 1850 pact in which they had agreed to construct a canal together

Question 30

John Hay

Answer 30

Roosevelt’s Secretary of State and negotiated treaty for construction of canal

Question 31

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 31

Rafts policy of exchanging dollars for Bullets

Question 32

Pancho Villa

Answer 32

National hero in Mexico, tried to attack US

Question 33

General John Jay Pershing

Answer 33

Led an American expedition force across the Mexico border in pursuit of Pancho Villa