Chapter 29

Question 1

Roosevelt’s Square Deal

Answer 1

Demanded the 3 c’s: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources

Question 2

What influenced Roosevelt to urge congress to create the Department of Commerce and Labor (1903)

Answer 2

The 1902 strike in Pennsylvania by mine workers

Question 3

Bureau of Corporations

Answer 3

Authorized to probe businesses engages in interstate commerce. Cleared the road for the era of “trust-busting”

Question 4

Elkins Act

Answer 4

Tried to end the rebates. Heavy fines were imposed on railroads that have rebates. 1903

Question 5

Hepburn Act

Answer 5

Restricted free passes. Expanded ICC and gave it the power to regulate rates. 1906

Question 6

Northern securities company

Answer 6

Railroad trust company organized by J.P.Morgan that was challenged by Roosevelt. The Supreme Court upheld host antitrust suit and dissolved the company.

Question 7

Meat inspection Act

Answer 7

Preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection. 1906

Question 8

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 8

Prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals. 1906

Question 9

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Answer 9

Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894). Criticized the Standard Oil company

Question 10

Jacob A. Riis

Answer 10

How The Other Half Lives (1890)

Question 11

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 11

The Shame of The Cities (1902). Critisized the corrupt alliance between big business and gov’t

Question 12

Theodore Dreiser

Answer 12

Sister Carrie, The Financiar, The Titan

Question 13

John Spargo

Answer 13

The Bitter Cry of The Children (1906)

Question 14

Desert Land Act

Answer 14

Fed.gov’t would sell cheap dry land to anyone willing to irrigate the soil within 3 years. 1887

Question 15

Forest Reserve Act

Answer 15

Authorized president to set aside public forests as national parks and other reserves. 1891

Question 16

Carey Act

Answer 16

Gave fed.land to states if they were to irrigate and settle in it. 1894

Question 17

2 goals of progressivism

Answer 17

Use state power to control trusts.

Improve common man’s conditions for life and labor as a safeguard against socialism.

Question 18

What did the progressives support

Answer 18

Voter initiative
Referendum
Recall
17th amendment

Question 19

17th amendment

Answer 19

Direct election of U.S. senators. 1913

Question 20

Robert M. La Folette

Answer 20

Governor of Wisconsin who took control of corrupt corporations and gave it back to the people

Question 21

Florence Kelly

Answer 21

First chief factory inspector in the state of Illinois
Leader of National Consumers League
Worked to make work safer for women and children

Question 22

Lockner v. New York

Answer 22

Supreme Court threw out 10-hour days for bakers

Question 23

Muller v. Oregon

Answer 23

Supreme Court upheld laws protecting women workers

Question 24

Alice Paul

Answer 24

Organized March in Washington March 1913
Picketed the White House
Arrested for blocking sidewalks
Went on hunger strike in prison

Question 25

Ida M. Tarbell

Answer 25

Factual expose of the Standard Oil Company

Question 26

David G. Phillips

Answer 26

Cosmopolitan

75/90 Senators represented only railroads and trust