Ch 23 Flashcards
This union worked for prohibition
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
This movement exemplified people moving away from social Darwinism, people tried to giver more aid to the urban poor
Social justice movement
Which amendment to the constitution outlawed sale of liquor?
18th amendment
What was the 18th amendment nicknamed?
Volstead act
Who headed the National American Suffrage Association?
Carrie Chapman Catt
Which amendment allowed for women’s suffrage?
19th amendment
What was the 19th amendment nicknamed?
Anthony amendment
This act limited child labor
Keating Owen act
What court case overturned the Keating Owen Act by saying child labor should be left to the states
Hammer V Daghenhart
Who led the education movement?
John Dewey
Who ran for President on the Socialist ticket in 1900, 1904, and 1908?
Eugene Debs
Why did the socialist movement never gain much strength?
It was too radical, wanted to overthrow capitalism
Which amendment allowed for direct election of senators?
17the amendment
The progressive era saw a _________ in popular politics
Decline
This governer was famous for his “Wisconsin idea”
Robert M.La Follette
Teddy Roosevelt used his _________ to get his point across
Bully pulpit
What did roosevelt think about the Sherman anti trust act?
He tried to defend it
Roosevelt tried to take legal action against his company in 1902, he brought up an anti trust lawsuit against them and the Supreme Court ruled to have the company dissolved
Norther security company
This was when Roosevelt sided with Pennsylvania miners in a dispute over labor unions and shorter hours
Square deal
This act did away with railroad rebates and increased the interstate commerce commissions power to regulate by placing telephone and telegraph companies under its power
Mann Elkins act
This act strengthened ICC ratemaking policies and increased its application to oil pipelines and other services
Hepburn Act
Who won the election of 1904?
Roosevelt
This act established sanitary regulations in the meat packing industry
Meat inspection act
This act required that business list ingredients of what went into products
Pure food and drug act
He was chief of the Forrest service and a conservationist, he wanted to institute a wise use of nations resources
Gifford Pinchot
William Howard Taft pushed for ______ tariffs
Lower
Taft favored ____ competition
Free
Who was Taft more likely to support when it came to labor disputes?
Business leaders
What was tarts opinion on unions?
He stood against them
What was their a split in the Republican Part over?
Tariffs
The protectionist/conservative wing wanted _____ tariffs
Higher
The progressive wing wanted _______ tariffs
Lower
This act set rates higher than proposed by the house but lower than previous tariffs
Payne Aldrich act
Who was Tafts secretary of interior?
Richard Ballinger
This involved Richard Ballinger attempting to sell some land that Gifford Pinchot had withdrawn to save for conservationist
Ballinger Pinchot Affair
What did Taft do when Pinchot complained about Ballinger?
Fired him
Who was the republican candidate in the election of 1912?
Taft
Who ran for the progressive party in 1912?
Roosevelt
What was the progressive party’s nickname?
Bull moose party
This was Roosevelts plan saying that the government should get involved in big business
New nationalism
Who ran for the democrats in 1912?
Woodrow Wilson
This was Woodrow Wilson’s belief of free economy and less government restraint on big business
New freedom
Who won the election of 1912?
Wilson
This bill cut tariff rates by 15%
Underwood tariff
What did the underwood tariff also provide for to make up for revenue?
Graduated income tax
Which amendment allowed for a graduated income tax
16 amendment
This was the greatest measure passed by Woodrow Wilson, it reformed the banking system by establishing a stable yet flexible currency
Federal reserve act
Lower rates meant _____ money in circulation
More
Higher rates meant ______ money in circulation
Limited
This act passed during Wilson’s presidency strengthened the Sherman anti trust act
Clayton anti trust act
What did the Clayton anti trust act say about unions?
That they were not conspiracies
The Clayton anti trust act outlawed __________
Court injunctions
She turned attention to work related illness
Dr Alice Hamilton
This act prohibited the transportation of women for immoral purposes
Mann act
Who was the president of the general federation of women’s clubs?
Sarah P Decker
This radical women’s union picketed the White House in 1917
Congressional Union
Who founded the congressional union?
Alice Paul and Lucy Burns
What was the original argument for women’s suffrage?
Voting was a natural right
What the the argument for women’s suffrage change to?
Women would use their votes to better society
This doctrine said that people shaped their environment and were shaped by it
Pragmatism
Who created the doctrine of pragmatism?
William James
This movement related law to social reform
Sociological jurisprudence
This judge from Denver Colorado was known as the kids judge
Ben Lindsey
This allowed voters rather than parties to choose candidates for office
Direct primaries
This city pioneered the commission form of government
Galveston Texas
This was knows as the countries best governed cities
Cleveland
In order to democratize the government, progressives backed what 3 measures?
The initiative, the referendum, the recall
This allowed voters to propose new laws
The initiative
This allowed voters to accept or reject a law at the ballot box
The referendum
This gave voters a way to remove an official from office
The recall
What position did Taft serve as on Roosevelt’s cabinet?
Sec of war
What labor union was involved in the square deal?
United mine workers
Who led the united mine workers?
John Mitchell
Who ran for the democrats in the election of 1904?
Alton B Parker
Who was the republican candidate in the election of 1908?
Taft
Who was the democratic candidate in the election of 1908?
William Jennings Bryan
Who was Tafts Vice President?
James J Sherman
Taft started his term with an attempt to curb the power of the speaker of the house _________ who had been dictating legislation
Joseph “Uncle Joe” Cannon
Who did Wilson name to the Supreme Court in 1916?
Brandeis
This imposed an 8 hour day on interstate railways and established a federal commission to investigate the railroad problems
Adamson act
Created an expert commission to recommend tariff rates
Tariff commission act
Boosted the income tax and furthered tax reform
Revenue act of 1916
Who won the election of 1916?
Wilson
This court case set the precedent for protective labor laws and expanded the definition of legal evidence
Muller vs Oregon
He was known as the peoples attorney
Louis D Brandeis
A brief including only two pages of traditional legal evidence and 115 pages on women’s health
Brandeis brief
