Chpt. 28 and 29

Question 1

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Answer 1

Attacked the Standard Oil Company

Book Wealth Against Commonwealth

Question 2

Jacob Riis

Answer 2

How the Other Half Lives

Exposed the dirty conditions of the poor

Influenced Theodore Roosevelt

Question 3

Socialists

Answer 3

Many were European immigrants

began to gain strength at the box office

Eugene V. Debs 1908+1912

Question 4

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 4

Unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

The Shame of the Cities

Question 5

Robert La Follette

Answer 5

Governor of Wisconsin

Most militant of the progressive Republican leaders

Removed control from companies and gave it back to the people

State universities

Question 6

Muller vs. Oregon

Answer 6

Brandeis argues that women need limited hours because of their weakened bodies

Supports labor movement, hurts women’s rights movement

Question 7

The Square Deal

Answer 7

Control of Corporations

Consumer protection (Meat Inspection Act)

Conservation of natural resources

Question 8

Purpose of city-manager system

Answer 8

Make the municipal affairs more efficient and carried out by experts

After Galveston. Reduce disasters

Question 9

TR’s response to coal strike

Answer 9

Threatens to send federal troops in to take over the mine

First time capital was threatened instead of labor

Question 10

Elkins Act

Answer 10

makes both the giver and receiver of rebates at fault

Question 11

Hepburn Act

Answer 11

Free passes, with their hint of bribery, were greatly restricted

Question 12

Achievements of President Roosevelt

Answer 12

helped start to trust bust

Meat Inspection Act to help consumer

Worked towards using natural resources efficiently

Question 13

Newlands Act

Answer 13

TR

Can use funds from selling lands to fund irrigation projects to convert deserts

Question 14

Effect of Panic of 1907

Answer 14

paved the way for fiscal reforms

need a more elastic currency exchange

Federal Reserve

Aldrich-Vreeland Act to allow banks to issue emergency currency

Question 15

Jack London

Answer 15

Call of the Wild

The frontier protects democracy and individualism

Question 16

Election of 1912 candidates

Answer 16

1. Woodrow Wilson (progressive Democrat)
2. TR (Progressive)
3. Taft (Republican)
4. Eugene V. Debs (socialist)

Question 17

Election of 1912 issues

Answer 17

Specific policies regarding progressiveness

Wilson focused less of social issues and more on entrepenuarship than Roosevelt

Question 18

Election of 1912 results

Answer 18

Wilson wins since the Republican vote is split

Question 19

Political philosophy of Taft

Answer 19

Passivity towards Congress

“Peaceful Bill”

He did not want to change anything

Mild

Question 20

Wilson’s triple wall of priveldge

Answer 20

Tariff (lowered)
Banks
Trusts

Question 21

Underwood Tariff

Answer 21

Reduction of tariffs

Passes after Wilson directly speaks to Congress

Public opinion, aroused by Wilson, lowered the tariff even more

Question 22

16th Amendment

Answer 22

Congress can use the income tax

Wilson began use of the income tax

Question 23

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 23

Wilson

Nationwide system of 12 regional reserve districts. Private.

Question 24

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Answer 24

Wilson

Lengthened list of illegal business act ivies

Benefits labor unions

Question 25

Samuel Gompers

Answer 25

Mild leader of the American Federation of Labor

Praises the Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Question 26

Federal Trade Commission

Answer 26

Wilson

Presidentially appointed commission to turn a searchlight on interstate industries

Crush monopolies at the root

Question 27

Federal Farm Loan Act

Answer 27

Wilson

made credit available to farmers at low interest rates

Demanded by Populists who supported him

Question 28

Eugene V. Debs

Answer 28

Socialist candidate in 1908 and 1912

Question 29

Louis Brandeis

Answer 29

Reformer

Lawyer in Muller v. Oregon

First Jew appointed to the Supreme Court

Question 30

Woodrow Wilson’s Racial views

Answer 30

He was a racist.

Question 31

17th Amendment

Answer 31

Direct election of senators

Puts more power in the hands of the people. Progressive.

Question 32

18th Amendment

Answer 32

Prohibition

Question 33

19th Amendment

Answer 33

Women’s suffrage

Question 34

Progressives

Answer 34

Mostly middle class people

Wanted to see more power in the hands of the people through changes on the federal/state level

Question 35

How does being Middle class affect the Progressives?

Answer 35

They dont want the socialist mob to take over

Also dont want the elite to rule

Question 36

Recall

Answer 36

enables voters to remove faithless elected officials

targeted at officials who took bribes by lobbyists

Question 37

Intiative

Answer 37

Voters could directly propose legislation themselves

Question 38

Referendum

Answer 38

place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people

Question 39

Florence Kelly

Answer 39

Illinois’s first Chief Factory Inspector

nation’s leading advocates for improved working conditions

National Consumers League founder

Question 40

National Consumers League

Answer 40

mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws to safeguard women and children

Question 41

Thorstein Veblen

Answer 41

Attacked the upper class for conspicious consumption

The Theory of the Leisure Class

Question 42

Hiram Johnson

Answer 42

Governor of California

Broke the dominant grip of the Southern Pacific Railroad on California politics

Question 43

New Nationalism

Answer 43

TR’s call for a strong approach to the country’s affairs and a strong president

Efficiency

Social programs

Question 44

New Freedom

Answer 44

Wilson’s want to build business competition and small government

free economy, while still pushing progressive reforms