Reforms

Question 1

What are the requirements for fire safety in businesses?

Answer 1

Adequate and inspected fire escapes, doors that open outward, fire alarms and fire drills in all businesses, and a sprinkler system in buildings over 2 stories.

Question 2

What is the maximum occupancy rule?

Answer 2

Maximum occupancy ensures no overcrowding of the workplace.

Question 3

What are the door regulations during business hours?

Answer 3

Doors must remain unlocked during business hours.

Question 4

What is the cost of regulations?

Answer 4

Regulations save lives but cost a lot of tax dollars.

Question 5

Who were the Progressives?

Answer 5

The Progressives were from both parties who wanted to end laissez-faire government.

Question 6

What electoral reforms did the Progressives advocate for?

Answer 6

They wanted primary elections for each party, direct voting for senators, initiative and referendums for ordinary people, and recall elections to remove bad politicians.

Question 7

What is TR’s political program called?

Answer 7

TR’s political program is called the Square Deal.

Question 8

What are the three elements of the Square Deal?

Answer 8

Control of corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of the nation’s resources.

Question 9

What action did TR take against the Northern Securities Company?

Answer 9

TR sued the Northern Securities Company owned by JP Morgan to break up his monopoly on railroads.

Question 10

How did TR handle the Great Coal Miners strike of 1902?

Answer 10

TR threatened to nationalize the coal mines if the owners did not listen to the miners’ demands.

Question 11

What did the Elkins and Hepburn Act do?

Answer 11

The Elkins and Hepburn Act gave the ICC more power to regulate railroads.

Question 12

What was TR’s approach to monopolies?

Answer 12

TR broke up many monopolies into competing companies, which benefited consumers with lower prices.

Question 13

What department did TR create to investigate trusts?

Answer 13

TR created a Department of Commerce and Labor to investigate trusts and break up those harmful to the US.

Question 14

What consumer protection laws did TR pass?

Answer 14

TR passed the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act.

Question 15

What did the Meat Inspection Act entail?

Answer 15

Government agents will investigate meat plants and give them a grade.

Question 16

What was required by the Pure Food and Drug Act?

Answer 16

Companies must label all ingredients in products.

Question 17

What conservation efforts did TR implement?

Answer 17

TR created 23 national parks and monuments, the Antiquities Act, and the National Forest Service.

Question 18

What is the Antiquities Act?

Answer 18

The Antiquities Act allows a president to declare anything a national monument.

Question 19

How many acres of forest did TR set aside?

Answer 19

TR set aside 125 million acres of forest in hundreds of national forests.

Question 20

Who supported TR’s conservation efforts?

Answer 20

Conservationists like John Muir and John Burroughs backed TR’s efforts.

Question 21

What is the difference between a conservationist and a preservationist?

Answer 21

TR is a conservationist, meaning he supports chopping and replanting rather than strict preservation.

Question 22

What was the Newlands Act?

Answer 22

The Newlands Act provided federal tax dollars to states to irrigate and dam water in the Southwestern US.

Question 23

What is the Hetch Hetchy Dam?

Answer 23

The Hetch Hetchy Dam provides water for San Francisco in exchange for half of Yosemite being underwater.

Question 24

What does the LA Aqueduct do?

Answer 24

The LA Aqueduct provides water to Los Angeles but has destroyed Mono Lake in the Sierras.

Question 25

What types of sanctuaries did TR create?

Answer 25

TR created hundreds of bird and animal sanctuaries for buffalo and mustangs.