Chapter 15 Test Flashcards
Journalists who were obsessed with scandal and corruption, Published information on corrupt government practices and social problems
Muckrackers
All party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election, Pushed in Wisconsin by Governor Robert LaFollette
Direct primary
Permits a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required that the legislature vote on it.
Initiative
Allows citizens to vote on laws directly without going through the legislature.
Referendum
Provides voters the ability to call a special election to remove an elected official from office before his/her term expires
Recall
17th Amendment-allows for the direct election of senators by the states voters, Ratified in 1913
Direct Election of Senators
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
City Reform
Abolition of Child Labor, Minimum wage and maximum hour legislation for women, Adoption of direct primaries, election in which voters select nominees
state reform
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.
National reform
A settlement negotiation by an outside party, Roosevelt pushed for use of arbitration for the coal mine strike in 1902.
Arbitration
Act passed to strengthen the ICC (interstate commerce commission)
Hepburn Act
Federal inspection of meats sold through interstate commerce, Set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants
Meat Inspection Act
Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.
Pure Food and Drug Act
Idea that we can responsibly use the resources that we have and protect them for the future
Conservation
What principles were completed when Roosevelt was President?
arbitration, regulating businesses, conservation, new nationalism
Irrigation and land development projects in the west were under this law?
Newlands Reclamation Act
created 100 million acres of protected forest, 5 new national parks, 51 federal wildlife reservations
United States Forest Service
What is the Children’s Bureau?
Investigated and publicized the issues with child labor.
Monitor activities of mining companies to make sure that conservations ideals were being promoted as the private sector of the industry grew.
Bureau of Mines
What did New Nationalism include?
Federal Regulation of Businesses, Welfare Legislation, Income and Inheritance Taxes, Election reforms
What was the new freedom policy?
To enforce anti-trust laws without threatening free economic growth.
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.
Bull Moose Party
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
Underwood Tariff
Federal Reserve Banking system is created in 1913
Bank Reform
Monitor business activity, Regulate “unfair trade practices” through the court system
Federal Trade System
Corrected the deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act
Clayton Antitrust Act
What principles were completed when Taft was President?
Bureau of Mines, Children’s Bureau,
Why was Woodrow Wilson elected President?
He was so smart, they couldn’t give it to anyone else.
