QUICK PROGRESSIVES

Question 1

How did TR become president?

Answer 1

He was the VP to McKinley – Who was assasinated by an anarchist

Question 2

Describe TR’s actions to labor unions

Answer 2

• In 1902 Anthracite coal strike, his intervention makes him the first president to take a neutral intervention in a strike, leading to a 10% wage increase and a decrease from 10 hours to 9 hours

Question 3

Contrast TR’s actions to labor Unions to a previous president

Answer 3

Rutherford Hayes sent federal troops to try and stop the strike in Baltimore in the June 11 1877 great railroad strike

He also sent 2000 soldiers (and strikebreakers also) in camden street, maryland

Question 4

Describe Chicago’s population growth

Answer 4

300,000 in 1870

1.5M in 1900

Question 5

Describe New York’s Dumbell tenement buildings

Answer 5

32,000 tenements in 1840 with 1 million residents

Question 6

How many children were working in factories in 1900?

Answer 6

1.7 million

Question 7

Describe industrial accidents in 1900

Answer 7

35k killed
500k injured

Question 8

List TR’s antitrust actions

Answer 8

• 1902: First use of Sherman’s act by taking action again the Northern Securities company
• 1903: Expedition act
• 1903: Department of commerce and labor act creates a new department of commerce

Question 9

Describe TR’s regulatory actions

Answer 9

• 1903 Elkins act starts the process of regulating railroads
• 1906 Pure food and drugs act set off process of ending food adulteration

Question 10

Describe Wilson’s regulatory actions

Answer 10

• 1913 Federal Reserve Act sets up federal reserve board to oversee banking system
• 1914 Clayton act gives more power to government to enforce Sherman antitrust act
• 1914 Federal Trade Commision act creates regulatory body for business covering questionable business actions

Question 11

Describe Wilson’s labor union action

Answer 11

• 1916: Federal Child Labor act reduces child labor
• Appoints WIlliam WIlson, the first secretary to the department of labor
• 1915 Seamans act improves conditions in merchant navy
• 1916 revenue act taxes rich more to redistribute wealth
• 1916 Adamson act gives 8 hr working day for rail road workers: first federal intervention in private companies (failure: supreme court declares it unconstitutional in 1917)

Question 12

Describe Wilson’s changes to government income

Answer 12

• 1913 Underwood Tariff reduces many tariffs
• 1913: 16th amendment

Question 13

Describe Taft’s actions

Answer 13

• Passes the 16th amendment
• Introduces federal corporation tax
• Appoints more conservative republican cabinet members
• Sacks Gifford Pinchot, conservation movement appointee
• Enforces Sherman antitrust act
• Forms US commission on economy and efficiency / first budget for federal govt and allows Taft to create a commission to study administrative reform

Question 14

Urban population in 1860 vs 1910

Answer 14

1860: 20%
1910: 46%

Question 16

What did the NYT campaign against Tweed reveal?

Answer 16

$13M raised to build a courthouse that wasnt built

Question 17

How much did Tweed steal?

Answer 17

In 30 months in the 1860s, $45M

Question 18

Describe state progress in worker compensation

Answer 18

1909-17: 19 states mandate worker compensation in industrial accidents

Question 19

By what year did the granger movement have 750k members?

Answer 19

1875

Question 20

What does the Hull House lead to?

Answer 20

Formed in 1889, the Hull House led to the Illinois Factory act of 1893 - chicago factory reform

Question 21

When did Alice Paul pickett the white house?

Answer 21

1919 Jan - she and 1000 others pickett the white house for 18 months