Chapter 18-progressivism Flashcards
When two parties are required to reach a settlement like what happened between the coal miner owners and coal mine workers in 1903
arbitration
He required the coal mine owners and coal mine workers to arbitrate their differences in 1903
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt believed that this industry was putting private interests at the forefront rather than the good of the nation
Coal Industry
He wanted to help honest big business while busting dishonest big business.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt used his trust busting “Big Stick” on this company.
Northern Securities Company
Theodore Roosevelt’s trust busting strategy was called this.
Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt’s economic reform program was called this.
New Nationalism
This was tariff was to reduce substantially import tariffs
Underwood Tariff
He created many new National Parks and National Monuments as a conservationist president.
Theodore Roosevelt
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt would lead this new political party.
Progressive Party
Another name for the 1912 Progressive Party
Bull Moose Party
He was Theodore Roosevelt’s hand picked successor in 1908
William Howard Taft
In 1911, He files suit against US Steel to prove his position as a progressive politician.
William Howard Taft
This government agency investigated child labor abuse.
Children’s Bureau
Immediately after Taft’s election, his old ______ ways became apparent.
conservative
He would privatize Alaska’s forest resources against Gifford Pinchot’s wishes.
Richard Balenger
Taft would fire the head of the Forest Service ________ because he was insubordinate to Taft’s wishes.
Gifford Pinchot
Taft’s signing of the _______ tariff increases the taxes on import and begins many arguments with progressives in the Republican Party
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
He was the ultra-conservative leader of the House of Representatives in 1908
Joe Cannon
He went to Africa and then Europe only to return to the US for the 1912 election running as a progressive Bull Moose candidate.
Theodore Roosevelt
He was born in Virginia but grew up in Georgia and then worked at Princeton University before being elected President in 1912.
Woodrow Wilson
He was a progressive Democrat
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson’s monetary policy included making a _______.
Federal Reserve System
Wilson’s economic program of destroying all monopolies good or bad so that the market will be truly competitive was called
New Freedom
These people were investigative reporters who exposed the bad in society.
Muckrakers