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Chapter 18: The Progressive Era Flashcards

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What was a benefit of secret ballot elections?

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Reduced voter intimidation

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What was Progressivism?

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Favored acheiving political and social reform through education wider political participation by all classes of society and direct government action

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What is a direct primary?

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Nomination of candidate by popular vote

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What is ‘initiative’?

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Voters can intiate legislation without legislature

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What is ‘referendum’?

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People vote to accept/reject a law

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What is a ‘recall’?

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Special election to remove an election official

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What is trust-busting?

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Breaking up monopolies

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What new industries were regulated/owned by the government?

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Gas and Water (Socialism)

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What is the 16th amendment?

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Federal income tax (makes up for loss of revenue from tariffs)

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What is the 17th amendment?

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Direct election of Senators

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What was the 18th amendment?

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Prohibition- ban on manufacture, slae, or transportation of alcoholic beverages

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What was the 19th amendment?

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Granted women’s suffrage

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Who were two “suffragettes”?

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

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What were muckrakers?

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Writers who exposed abuses and corruption

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What did Lincoln Steffens report about? (muckraker)

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Municipal corruption

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What Ida Tarbell report about?

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Standard Oil

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Who was William Jennings Bryan?

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Leader of progressive wing of Democratic party

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Who was Robert La Follette?

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Republican leader

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Who was Eugene Debs?

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Socialist leader

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Name 3 progressive presidents.

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Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson

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What was Roosevelt’s belief that everyone should receive fair treatment and equal opportunity called?

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the Square Deal

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What nickname did Roosevelt earn, due to his attacking on the abuse of business?

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Square Deal

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What were acts that attempted to control conduct of business for the public good called?

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Regulation

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What was the Hepburn Act?

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Strengthened ICC ability to set rates for railroads and provisions for standard bookkeeping

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What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?

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Outlawed the sale of impure food and honest labeling

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What did the Meat Inspection Act deal with?

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Preparation and packaging of meat

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Who wrote ‘The Jungle’ and what was its purpose?

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Upton Sinclair; exposed the meat packing industry

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What major strike occurred in 1902?

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Coal Strike

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What is Conservation?

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Careful use of natural resources

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What was the Reclamation Act?

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Set aside 100 million acres of land to be controlled by Govt.

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What racial group was discriminated against in California?

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Asians

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What laws in the South forced segragation?

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Jim Crow Laws

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What attempts were made to deprive blacks their right to vote?

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Literacy Tests/Poll Taxes

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Who wrote ‘Up from Slavery’, and what was its purpose?

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Booker T. Wahsington; urged blacks to concentrate on bettering themselves through education and black businesses

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Who was W.E.B. du Bois?

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Pursued a political solution, cofounder of the NAACP

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What was Roosevelt’s foreign policy?

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“Speak softly and carry a big stick”

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Who attempted to win the affection of the Philippine’s people?

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Gov. William Howard Taft

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What created a link between the Atlantic and Pacific?

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Panama Canal

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What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

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Made the US policeman over Latin America

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What treaty was made to end the war with Russia and Japan?

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Gentleman’s Agreement

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What was the purpose of Roosevelt’s Great White Fleet?

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To show US military strength to the World

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Who was handpicked by Roosevelt as his successor on the Republican ticket?

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William Howard Taft

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Who ran for Democrats in 1908?

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William Jennings Bryan

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What was the Payne-Aldrich tariff?

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Attempt to lower rates

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What was the result of Congressional Reform?

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Speaker of the House powers limited

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What caused Taft’s split with Roosevelt?

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His anti-trust proceedings against US Steel

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What is ‘Dollar Diplomacy’?

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Attempt to influence foreign affairs through investments

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What new party did Roosevelt form?

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Progressive Party (nicknamed Bull Moose Party)

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Who ran for Republicans in the election of 1912?

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Taft

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Who was the Democrats candidate in 1912?

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Woodrow Wilson

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What was the Underwood Tariff Act?

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First real reform since the CIvil War

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What is the Federal Reserve Act?

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Set up a privately controlled central banking system

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What new policies affected business and labor?

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Clayton Antitrust Act and Federal Trade Commission

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