Chapter 18 Flashcards
Efficiency progressives believed that cities should be run by a -
a) city manager or commissioners
b) mayor elected by the people
c) mayor appointed by a party
d) city council elected by the people
a) city manager or commissioners
Wisconsin become known as “the laboratory of democracy” because of its -
a) consumer protection laws
b) reforms that broke the power of party bosses
c) efforts for woman suffrage
d) antitrust laws
b) reforms that broke the power of party bosses
Socialists believe in -
a) no government
b) private ownership of business
c) government regulation of business
d) government ownership of business
d) government ownership of business
The Underwood Tariff Act included a provision for -
a) negotiating tariffs with other nations
b) levying an income tax
c) starting a new national bank
d) banning tying agreements
b) levying an income tax
This amendment began prohibition, the sale of alcohol
Eighteenth
T/F
In international affairs, Roosevelt was a Social Darwinist, but domestically he was a committed Progressive who firmly believed that government should actively balance the needs of competing groups in American society.
True
In a direct primary -
a) all party members vote for delegates to the party’s convention
b) the party’s state legislators vote for delegates to the party’s conventions
c) all party members vote for a candidate to run in the general election
d) the party’s state legislators vote for a candidate to run in the election
c) all party members vote a candidate to run in the general election
The Constitution originally specified that senators would be selected by -
the legislature of each state
Which of the following best completes this statement:
If U.S. Steel company would: allow the government to look at its account books and records, then the government would
a) promise not to break up the trust
b) promise not to sue the company
c) allow the company to correct problems privately without going to court
d) allow an arbitrator to rule on whether the company was violating the law
c) allow the company to correct problems privately without going to court
In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attorney general to file a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against -
a) the New York Stock Exchange
b) the Union Pacific Railroad
c) the Burlington railroad
d) Northern Securities
D) Northern Securities
Teddy Roosevelt put his stamp on the presidency most clearly in the area of -
a) environmental conservation
b) antitrust legislation
c) child labor laws
d) arbitration
a) environmental conservation
T/F
Theodore Roosevelt believed that most trusts benefited the economy and breaking them up would do more harm than good.
True
T/F
The Pure Food and Drug Act required federal inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce and required the Agriculture Department to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants
False
T/F
The Supreme Court ruled the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act unconstitutional.
True
T/F
William Howard Taft brought many more antitrust cases during his term than Theodore Roosevelt did during his presidency.
True
T/F
Progressives were pleased with William Howard Taft for pushing through the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
False
T/F
Progressivism was an organized political movement that worked together to achieve a set of agreed-upon reforms.
False
What amendment stated that U.S. Senators would be elected by popular vote/direct election of senators
Seventeenth
The federal government began the large-scale transformation of the West’s landscape and economy with the passage of which ACT.
Newlands Reclamation Act
The meeting in 1905 that included W.E.B. Du Bois and other African American leaders to demand full political rights and responsibilities for African Americans eventually resulted in the founding of the -
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
To restore public confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a -
a) loan system
b) gold-based currency system
c) Federal Reserve system
d) Federal Trade Commission
c) Federal Reserve system
One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned -
a) racial discrimination
b) income tax
c) child labor
d) price discrimination
d) price discrimination
This amendment guaranteed women the right to vote -
Nineteenth
The case that challenged a state’s authority to limit work hours for women was -
Muller vs Oregon
__________were crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
muckrakers
A _____ allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired.
recall
_______, a settlement imposed by an outside party
arbitration
In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson called his program New ______ and Theodore Roosevelt called his program New ________
Freedom
Nationalism
The right to vote
suffrage
The movement to lessen or eliminate the sale of alcohol was called
temperance
What was American’s first national park
Yellowstone National Park
Woodrow Wilson was governor of what state before he become president
New Jersey
a journalist who wrote How the Other Half Lives
Jacob Riis
a leader of the women’s rights movement
Susan B Anthony
the first head of the National Forestry Service
Gifford Pinchot
wrote articles criticizing Standard Oil
Ida Tarbell
wrote The Jungle
Upton Sinclair
founded the Sierra Club
John Muir
Who were the progressives and what did they believe
Progressives had many different views about how to fix the problems they thought existed in America’s society. They generally believed that industrialism and urbanization had created many social problems. The demanded changes in the law and Constitution. In general they agreed the solution was in pushing for a more active role on the part of the government to solve society’s problems. Progressives belonged to both major political parties and were usually urban, educated, middle-class Americans
Compare the views on trusts by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson during the election campaign of 1912
Roosevelt accepted the economic power of the trusts and proposed a more powerful federal government and a strong executive to regulate them.
Wilson criticized Roosevelt’s “regulated monopoly” thinking and thought monopolies were evils to be destroyed instead of being regulated. Wilson felt Roosevelt’s program gave the federal government too much power in the economy and did nothing to restore competition in the economy which he felt was important.
T/F
Progressives though that by applying scientific principles to society that they could fix its problems.
True
T/F
The Supreme Court ruled the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act unconstitutional
True
Theodore Roosevelt warned William Howard Taft to stay away from the tariff reform because why
it could split the Republican Party
Roosevelt believed that Taft’s focus on breaking up trusts would -
a) promote competition and lower prices for consumers
b) please progressives and help the Republicans stay in power
c) destroy the system of cooperation and regulation Roosevelt had arranged
d) ruin the efficiency of business and cause prices to rise
c) destroy the system of cooperation and regulation Roosevelt had arranged
Wilson believed lower tariff rates would lead American companies to -
improve products and lower prices
What did progressives think needed to play a more active role in solving society’s problems?
the government
What incident did Roosevelt criticize as an example of groups pursuing their private interests at the expense of the nation?
coal strike of 1902
What gave federal antitrust suits precedence on the dockets of circuit courts?
Expedition Act
Taft gave the impression that he had “sold the Square Deal down the river” by backing speaker Joe Cannon, by supporting Ballinger against Pinchot, and by signing what Act -
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act.
In October 1911, Taft announced an antitrust lawsuit against what company -
U.S. Steel
What amendment allowed the government to directly tax personal income
Sixteenth
another word for disobedience
insubordination
What was the nickname given to the Progressive Party -
Bull Moose
What is the term for when a proposed legislation is presented to voters for approval
referendum