History-- Chapter 6 Guided Reading

Two go Taft's achievements were the creation of the ________________ _____________ which investigated child labor, and the __________ _____ ___________, which monitored mining companies, expanded national forests, and protected waterpower sites from private development.

Children's Bureau; Bureau of Mines

Roosevelt had Congress create the _____________________ _____ ________________ ________ _____________ to inform the public about abuses of power by big businesses.

Department of Commerce and Labor

Roosevelt greatly increased the power of the _______________ branch of the federal government.

Executive

Who were the muckrakers?

Journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption. They brought political problems to the public eye.

What was Prohibition?

Law's banning the manufacturing, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

Two laws, the _________ ____________________ ______ and the ________ _______ _______ ___________ _______, were passed in 1906 to protect consumers.

Meat Inspection Act; Pure food and Drug Act

Taft angered many progressives by signing the __________________ __________, which raised tariffs on some goods.

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Who were the progressives?

People that believed that industrialization and urbanization caused many social problems. These people were part of the educated, urban middle class of both political parties.

What is socialism?

The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community.

Because Republican voters were divided between two candidates, _______________ became the new president.

Wilson

Who did both Roosevelt and Taft run against?

Wilson

How did progressives think cities should be governed?

With efficient techniques adopted from the efficiency techniques from businesses.

Progressives in Congress passed the __________________ _______________ _______, which outlawed practices that restricted competition.

Clayton Anti-trust Act

Roosevelt intervened in the ________ ___________ of 1902 to protect the country from a shortage that would have closed factories and left homes unheated.

Coal Strike

Roosevelt felt that the best way to protect forests was to ___________ ________________ _____ ____________ _________.

Controlled lumbering on federal land

Wilson supported the _____________ _____________ ___________, allowing the government to supervise the banking system and indirectly _________________ ______________ ________ for the entire nation.

Federal Reserve System; controlle interest rates

Wilson asked Congress to create the _____________________ ___________ ___________________ to monitor businesses.

Federal Tarde Comission

The West's landscape changed when the Newlands Reclamation Act allowed federal money to pay for ____________________ and ________ __________________.

Irrigation; Land Development

How did the Seventeenth Amendment change the way senators are elected?

It meant for people to now vote for senators, not the government.

What limits were placed on child labor?

Minimum age, maximum working hours, they could not work in in mines or factories, and education laws.

Roosevelt believed in the efficiency of trusts unless they created _____________________.

Monopolies

To reduce discrimination, two organizations were founded: the _____________ _________ ______ _______ _______________ _____ ___________________ _____________ and the _____________________ ____________

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Anti-Defamation League

How did the separate suffrage organizations hope to achieve their goal?

National Women Suffrage Association: Focused on passing a constitutional amendment American Woman Sufferage Association: Wanted state government to give women the right to vote

Wilson's program to destroy monopolies and limit government power was called _________ ________________________.

New Freedom

Roosevelt's program to increase regulations of trusts and protect women and children was called _______ _________________.

New Nationalism

A serious controversy arose between the former secretary of the interior, ___________, and the new secretary, _____________ over concern about the nation's forest ad mineral reserves.

Pinchot; Ballinger

Theodore Roosevelt formed the __________________ Party when _________ won the Republican nomination.

Progressive; Taft

How did progressives feel they could improve society?

Progressives believed using scientific principles could produce solutions for society.

Examples of progressivism within the federal government include laws passed to ________ ______________ and _____________ __________.

Protect workers; regulate businesses

Progressivism failed to address two types of discrimination: ______________ and _______________

Racial and Religious

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

The 19th amendment

What was the goal of the woman suffrage movement?

To give women the right to vote.

What did many progressives believe was the key to improving government?

To make elected officials more responsive and accountable to voters.

Wilson signed the ___________________ _________ _______ in 1913 that reduced the tariffs and provided for levying an ______________ ______ on the earnings of individuals.

Underwood Tariff Act; income tax