Chapter 15 Test

Question 1

Journalists who were obsessed with scandal and corruption, Published information on corrupt government practices and social problems

Answer 1

Muckrackers

Question 2

All party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election, Pushed in Wisconsin by Governor Robert LaFollette

Answer 2

Direct primary

Question 3

Permits a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required that the legislature vote on it.

Answer 3

Initiative

Question 4

Allows citizens to vote on laws directly without going through the legislature.

Answer 4

Referendum

Question 5

Provides voters the ability to call a special election to remove an elected official from office before his/her term expires

Answer 5

Recall

Question 6

17th Amendment-allows for the direct election of senators by the states voters, Ratified in 1913

Answer 6

Direct Election of Senators

Question 7

Oust or reform Political Machines

• Provision of public welfare services such as children’s playgrounds and lodging for the homeless
• Regulation or breakup of of public utility monopolies

Answer 7

City Reform

Question 8

Abolition of Child Labor, Minimum wage and maximum hour legislation for women, Adoption of direct primaries, election in which voters select nominees

Answer 8

state reform

Question 9

Establishment of Children’s Bureau and Women’s Bureau within the department of labor, Antitrust actions against holding companies, Corporation that holds the stocks and bonds of numerous companies, Use of Binding Arbitration to prevent strikes in essential industries, Arbitration: Process in which a controversy is resolved by an impartial 3rd party.

Answer 9

National reform

Question 10

A settlement negotiation by an outside party, Roosevelt pushed for use of arbitration for the coal mine strike in 1902.

Answer 10

Arbitration

Question 11

Act passed to strengthen the ICC (interstate commerce commission)

Answer 11

Hepburn Act

Question 12

Federal inspection of meats sold through interstate commerce, Set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants

Answer 12

Meat Inspection Act

Question 13

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.

Answer 13

Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 14

Idea that we can responsibly use the resources that we have and protect them for the future

Answer 14

Conservation

Question 15

What principles were completed when Roosevelt was President?

Answer 15

arbitration, regulating businesses, conservation, new nationalism

Question 16

Irrigation and land development projects in the west were under this law?

Answer 16

Newlands Reclamation Act

Question 17

created 100 million acres of protected forest, 5 new national parks, 51 federal wildlife reservations

Answer 17

United States Forest Service

Question 18

What is the Children’s Bureau?

Answer 18

Investigated and publicized the issues with child labor.

Question 19

Monitor activities of mining companies to make sure that conservations ideals were being promoted as the private sector of the industry grew.

Answer 19

Bureau of Mines

Question 20

What did New Nationalism include?

Answer 20

Federal Regulation of Businesses, Welfare Legislation, Income and Inheritance Taxes, Election reforms

Question 21

What was the new freedom policy?

Answer 21

To enforce anti-trust laws without threatening free economic growth.

Question 22

Progressive Party

• Created by Roosevelt so that he could run for re-election when the Republicans wouldn’t give him the party nomination
• Supported by women, progressives, and insurgent republicans.

Answer 22

Bull Moose Party

Question 23

Reduced the tariff on imports to approximately 30% of the value of the goods, Provided for an income tax, Allowable with the passage of the 16th Amendment

Answer 23

Underwood Tariff

Question 24

Federal Reserve Banking system is created in 1913

Answer 24

Bank Reform

Question 25

Monitor business activity, Regulate “unfair trade practices” through the court system

Answer 25

Federal Trade System

Question 26

Corrected the deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 26

Clayton Antitrust Act

Question 27

What principles were completed when Taft was President?

Answer 27

Bureau of Mines, Children’s Bureau,

Question 28

Why was Woodrow Wilson elected President?

Answer 28

He was so smart, they couldn’t give it to anyone else.