Chapter 8 American History Flashcards
Referendum
Democratic democracy
- Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
Regulate big businesses
Scientific Management
Better business and be more efficient
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Moral- do things better
Commission plan
Divided government into several departments
Referendum
Allowed citizens to vote and propose a new law.
Muckraker
Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption
Workers’ compensation
Established insurance funds that implodes got
Ex. Hurt in the job and you still get paid even when your at home
Initiative
Citizens could start laws and permitted a group of citizens to introduce legislation
Temperance
People to stop or modify or cut their alcohol consumption
What did progressives have a strong faith in?
Science and technology
What did the Underwood Tariff Act do?
Provided income tax
Why did Teddy Roosevelt try to win the Republican nomination in 1912?
He thought he was more fit for the job than Taft.
How did the efficiency progressives believe that cities should be ran?
Scientific Managment
How did the US Supreme Court rule in the Northern Securities Case?
They had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act
What did Roosevelt tell Taft about the tariff reform?
To stay away form the tariffs reform because it would divide the Republican Party
Why did Wisconsin become known as the laboratory of democracy?
Because they did so many good acts
What was Alice Pauls strategy for the suffrage movement?
She wanted to protest
Socialists believed in what?
They believed in large companies
What changed about the Interstate Commerce Commission by 1920?
Hepburn Act was added
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.
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.
Compare Roosevelt and Taft
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.
