APUSH Ch 20 part 2

During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was

Eugene V. Debs.

All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration EXCEPT the

Interstate Commerce Act.

The Sierra Club was founded by

John Muir.

During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,

he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities.

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

meatpacking industry.

In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers, President Theodore Roosevelt

ordered federal arbitration.

During the progressive era, W. E. B. Du Bois asserted all of the following EXCEPT that

seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise.

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.

As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

was, at one time, the largest women's organization in American history.