Progressivism Pt. 2

Question 1

Plessy v Ferguson

Answer 1

1896, segregation legal in public places, allows “separate but equal” doctrine but not actually followed.

Question 2

Ways the States weakened Black Americans’ political power:

Answer 2

Made it very hard to vote:
1. Literacy tests
2. Poll taxes
3. Grandfather clauses

Question 3

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 3

passed after The Jungle becomes national sensation; dictates sanitary requirements + creates federal meat inspection program.

Question 4

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 4

halts sale of contaminated food and medicine, requires truth in labeling

Question 5

Actions and characteristics of Teddy Roosevelt that contributed to his reputation as the first modern president:

Answer 5

Publicity campaigns
Leadership
Youth
Supporting the federal government > states

Question 6

Progressive beliefs in Roosevelt’s ideologies:

Answer 6

In favor of strong federal government
His use of federal intervention + regulation AS the arbitrator
Bust trusts

Question 7

Teddy Roosevelt’s use of federal power to push regulation in many industries and areas of the United States:

Answer 7

1902 coal strike
Railroad Regulation
Trust Busting

Question 8

Teddy Roosevelt’s record on Civil rights:

Answer 8

Fails to support Blacks as a whole
More moderate (close with Booker T.)
Supports other individual Blacks in civil service

Question 9

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 9

First chief of the US Forest service

Question 10

Payne Aldrich Tariff

Answer 10

moderate tariff bill that angered progressive republicans

Question 11

Triumphs and challenges of Taft’s administration:

Answer 11

• Busted 90 trusts
• Split halves of party because of his slower, more moderate progressive ideas
• Specifically split over Payne-Aldrich tariff (thought he was abandoning low tariffs.

Question 12

Injunction

Answer 12

authoritative warning or order

Question 13

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Answer 13

stops companies from buying stock to form monopolies, ends injunctions against strikers.

Question 14

Federal Trade Comission

Answer 14

“watchdog” agency, investigates regulatory violations, ends unfair business.

Question 15

Financial reforms under Wilson:

Answer 15

1. Clayton Antitrust Act (bigs can’t buy stocks)
2. Federal Trade Commission (ends unfair business)
3. Underwood Act (reduce tariffs)
4. 16th Amendment (graduated federal income tax)
5. Federal Reserve System

Question 16

Wilson’s record on Civil Rights:

Answer 16

NAACP loves while a candidate
Opposes anti-lynching legislation
Appoints white southerners who extend segregation
NAACP is betrayed