Chapter 6

Question 1

Ida Tarbell

Answer 1

muckraker who exposed unfair oil trusts

Question 2

political boss

Answer 2

controlled jobs & services in a city

Question 3

Roosevelt & business

Answer 3

wanted business regulated; break up bad trusts like beef, oil, railroad, tobacco

Question 4

segregation examples

Answer 4

separate neighborhoods, schools, parks, restaurants

Question 5

Wilson & women’s suffrage

Answer 5

refused to support women’s vote; changed mind later

Question 6

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 6

American Socialist Party leader

Question 7

arbitration

Answer 7

resolving disputes by agreeing to accept decision of neutral party

Question 8

mutualista

Answer 8

Mexican American aid group

Question 9

oligopoly

Answer 9

a few large companies that control prices for an entire industry

Question 10

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 10

helped organize women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY

Question 11

Gentleman’s Agreement

Answer 11

Roosevelt & Japan in 1907; cut Japanese immigration

Question 12

trustbuster

Answer 12

government official who investigates & combats business alliances to control prices

Question 13

progressives & income taxes

Answer 13

thought income tax was more fair that other taxes

Question 14

B. T. Washington says economic power =?

Answer 14

social equality & civil rights

Question 15

spoils system

Answer 15

government jobs given to political supporters

Question 16

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 16

urged people to stop drinking alcohol; supported prohibition

Question 17

“separate but equal”

Answer 17

1896 Supreme Court decision that legalized segregation

Question 18

Ku Klux Klan

Answer 18

terror group that targeted minorities like Catholics, Jews, immigrants & African Americas

Question 19

ESSAY: presidency of Theodore Roosevelt regarding trusts, arbitration, & conservation

Answer 19

• do not just list things

- you must explain

Question 20

TRUSTS

Answer 20

• supported regulation of business & progressive reforms
• targeted railroad, beef, oil, & tobacco trusts
• wanted to break up BAD trusts–not all trusts

Question 21

ARBITRATION

Answer 21

• stepped into United Mine Workers strike
• asked both sides to accept arbitration
• previous presidents used troops against strikers; Roosevelt used it against company
• Roosevelt pushed for negotiations

Question 22

CONSERVATION

Answer 22

• protect & preserve natural resources
• conserve forests
• made it a public issue; got people interested in conservation
• U.S. Forest Service in 1905
• wildlife preserves
• balanced business interests w/conservation