Chapter 15 Section 2

Question 1

As a ___________ Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States was in competition with other nations.

Answer 1

Social Darwinist

Question 2

To regulate big business without breaking up trusts, Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass the _______________ to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission

Answer 2

Hepburn Act

Question 3

In the Coal Strike of 1902, Roosevelt urged the union and the owners to accept __________,, which is a settlement imposed by an outside party

Answer 3

Arbitration

Question 4

In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s observations in “The Jungle” resulted in passage of the ____________, regulating food industry

Answer 4

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 5

Realizing the nation’s bountiful resources were being used up at an alarming rate, Roosevelt urged Americans to _______ these resources.

Answer 5

Conserve

Question 6

In 1902, Roosevelt supported passage of a law authorizing the use of funds from _______________ to pay for irrigation projects in the west.

Answer 6

Public Land

Question 7

Roosevelt backed efforts to save ___________ and established many new national parks and wildlife refuges.

Answer 7

Nations Forests

Question 8

Taft believed ___________- limited competition , hurt consumers, and protected the trusts.

Answer 8

high Tariffs

Question 9

When Taft accepted the __________, which cut tariffs hardly at all and raised them on some goods, his standing among Republiccan progressives deteriorated.

Answer 9

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Question 10

Suspicion of Tafts secretary of the interior grew when he tried to make nearly a million acres of ___________available for private development

Answer 10

Public Forests

Question 11

Taft established the ___________, a federal agency that investigated and publicized child labor problems.

Answer 11

Childrens Bureau

Question 12

Taft also set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the mining companies, expanded ___________, and prevented development of waterpower sites.

Answer 12

National Forests

Question 13

wrote the jungle, a book describing conditions in the meatpacking industry

Answer 13

Upton Sinclair

Question 14

disobedience to authority

Answer 14

insubordination

Question 15

appointed to head the United States Forest Service

Answer 15

Gifford Pinchot

Question 16

a settlement negotiated by an outside party

Answer 16

aRBITRATION

Question 17

Roosevelts reform programs

Answer 17

square deal

Question 18

What incident did Roosevelt criticize as an example of groups pursuing their private interests at the expense of the nation?

Answer 18

Formation of the Nothern Securities

Question 19

In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attourney general to fild a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against

Answer 19

Northern SEcurities

Question 20

In what area did Taft’s contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt’s

Answer 20

Conservation

Question 21

IN October 1911, Taft announced an antitrust lawsuit against?

Answer 21

U.S. Steel

Question 22

Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies,k protect waterpower sites from private development and

Answer 22

expand the national forests