Progressivism

Question 1

Dollar Diplomacy

Answer 1

Taft’s desire to substitute dollars for bullets and invest in businesses and banks in the Caribbean and S. America

Question 2

John Spargo

Answer 2

The Bitter Cry of The children; exposed the abuses of child labor

Question 3

Roosevelt Corollary

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Updated the Monroe Doctrine and proclaimed the U.S. right of police power in this hemisphere

Question 4

Referendum

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Allows citizens to approve or reject laws passed by a legislature

Question 5

New Nationalism

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Focus on increasing federal power, break bad trusts, support workman’s compensation, and protect children and women

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Muckrakers

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Investigative writers/ journalist who published articles exposing corruption and calling for reform

Question 7

18th Amendment

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Production, transport, and sale of intoxicating liquors illegal

Question 8

TR/ trust busting

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Lead the Rough riders in Cuba, became our 26th president and busted monopolistic corporations that did not serve the public good

Question 9

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

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A 1911 fire that killed working women/ shocked the nation and led to protection of workers and people in public places

Question 10

Big Stick Diplomacy

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Use diplomacy backed by the threat of force

Question 11

Federal reserve act

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federal banks would control the amount of money in circulation and issue the nation’s paper money

Question 12

recall

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gives voters the power to remove public servants from office before their terms end

Question 13

1912 election

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four-man race; TR broke away from divided party and formed the bull moose party

Question 14

pure food and drug act

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banned the interstate shipment of impure food and mislabeling of food and drugs

Question 15

square deal

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program to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of workers,small businesses, and the poor in general

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open door policy

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called for protection of equal privileges for all countries trading with China and for the support of Chinese territorial administrative integrity

Question 17

direct primary

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an election where citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections

Question 18

eugene debs

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head of the american railway union who refused a govt. order to stop a strike, jailed and became a socialist

Question 19

The Jungle; Upton Sinclair

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Book in which the unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry was revealed

Question 20

initiative

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allowed citizens to put a proposed new law directly on the ballot by collecting citizens’ signatures

Question 21

17th amendment

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instituted the direct election of senators by the people of each state

Question 22

Robert La Follete

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progressive governor of Wisconsin who went after trust and supported political and social reform

Question 23

jacob riis

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author of How The Other Half Lives; exposed the horrors of dirty tenement living with his pictures

Question 24

jane addams

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progressive who opened Hull House in /Chicago as a community center for social services to the urban poor

Question 25

16th Amendment

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gave congress the power to collect taxes on people's income

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panama canal

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eventually created after the U.S. opposed Columbia efforts to block the Panamanian revolution, allowed shorter travel for U.S. ships from coast to coast

Question 27

moral diplomacy

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call for less big stick or dollar diplomacy and more emphasis on human rights and electing democratic govt.

Question 28

ida tarbell

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reported on the ruthless methods used to ruin competitors and make huge profits; the history of standard oil

Question 29

lincoln steffens

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author of articles on the political corruption in American cities (especially in Philly)

Question 30

new freedom

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called for an end to all trusts, smaller federal govt. and more emphasis on small business

Question 31

newlands act

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conservation action by TR that promoted irrigation of land out in the west

Question 32

clayton anti-trust act

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called the Magna Carta of labor; it removed unions from anti trust prosecution and fully defined illegal business practices

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gentlemen agreement

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pact with japan where San Fran ended segregation of Asian children and Japan limited emigration of its citizens to the U.S.A

Question 34

Progressive Movement

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social and political reformers who wanted govt. to fix problems in society, workplaces and the government at all levels