Chapter 8 American History

Question 0

Referendum

Answer 0

Democratic democracy

Question 1

1. Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

Answer 1

Regulate big businesses

Question 2

Scientific Management

Answer 2

Better business and be more efficient

Question 3

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 3

Moral- do things better

Question 4

Commission plan

Answer 4

Divided government into several departments

Question 5

Referendum

Answer 5

Allowed citizens to vote and propose a new law.

Question 6

Muckraker

Answer 6

Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption

Question 7

Workers’ compensation

Answer 7

Established insurance funds that implodes got

Ex. Hurt in the job and you still get paid even when your at home

Question 8

Initiative

Answer 8

Citizens could start laws and permitted a group of citizens to introduce legislation

Question 9

Temperance

Answer 9

People to stop or modify or cut their alcohol consumption

Question 10

What did progressives have a strong faith in?

Answer 10

Science and technology

Question 11

What did the Underwood Tariff Act do?

Answer 11

Provided income tax

Question 12

Why did Teddy Roosevelt try to win the Republican nomination in 1912?

Answer 12

He thought he was more fit for the job than Taft.

Question 13

How did the efficiency progressives believe that cities should be ran?

Answer 13

Scientific Managment

Question 14

How did the US Supreme Court rule in the Northern Securities Case?

Answer 14

They had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 15

What did Roosevelt tell Taft about the tariff reform?

Answer 15

To stay away form the tariffs reform because it would divide the Republican Party

Question 16

Why did Wisconsin become known as the laboratory of democracy?

Answer 16

Because they did so many good acts

Question 17

What was Alice Pauls strategy for the suffrage movement?

Answer 17

She wanted to protest

Question 18

Socialists believed in what?

Answer 18

They believed in large companies

Question 19

What changed about the Interstate Commerce Commission by 1920?

Answer 19

Hepburn Act was added

Question 20

Describe the situation with patent medicines that led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act, and describe the protections the new law provided.

Answer 20

There were no expiration dates, ingredients, and nothing to tell you what was in the package. They started giving spoiled food to customers. Also tried selling root beer as a medicine.

Question 21

Compare Roosevelt and Taft

Answer 21

Roosevelt- more confident, wanted to speak in front of people, loved being president, and got people behind him.
Taft- didn’t like speaking to the people, just didn’t give good reasons to be behind him, and didn’t really know what he was doing for the better of the world.