Chapter 15 Section 2 Flashcards
As a ___________ Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States was in competition with other nations.
Social Darwinist
To regulate big business without breaking up trusts, Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass the _______________ to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission
Hepburn Act
In the Coal Strike of 1902, Roosevelt urged the union and the owners to accept __________,, which is a settlement imposed by an outside party
Arbitration
In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s observations in “The Jungle” resulted in passage of the ____________, regulating food industry
Pure Food and Drug Act
Realizing the nation’s bountiful resources were being used up at an alarming rate, Roosevelt urged Americans to _______ these resources.
Conserve
In 1902, Roosevelt supported passage of a law authorizing the use of funds from _______________ to pay for irrigation projects in the west.
Public Land
Roosevelt backed efforts to save ___________ and established many new national parks and wildlife refuges.
Nations Forests
Taft believed ___________- limited competition , hurt consumers, and protected the trusts.
high Tariffs
When Taft accepted the __________, which cut tariffs hardly at all and raised them on some goods, his standing among Republiccan progressives deteriorated.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
Suspicion of Tafts secretary of the interior grew when he tried to make nearly a million acres of ___________available for private development
Public Forests
Taft established the ___________, a federal agency that investigated and publicized child labor problems.
Childrens Bureau
Taft also set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the mining companies, expanded ___________, and prevented development of waterpower sites.
National Forests
wrote the jungle, a book describing conditions in the meatpacking industry
Upton Sinclair
disobedience to authority
insubordination
appointed to head the United States Forest Service
Gifford Pinchot
a settlement negotiated by an outside party
aRBITRATION
Roosevelts reform programs
square deal
What incident did Roosevelt criticize as an example of groups pursuing their private interests at the expense of the nation?
Formation of the Nothern Securities
In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attourney general to fild a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against
Northern SEcurities
In what area did Taft’s contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt’s
Conservation
IN October 1911, Taft announced an antitrust lawsuit against?
U.S. Steel
Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies,k protect waterpower sites from private development and
expand the national forests
