Chapter 24

The Hepburn Act of 1906

authorized the interstate commerce commission to set maximum rates for railroads

The seventeenth amendment

authorized the popular election of u.s senators

Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big businesses

false

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that

the republican party had split in two

Contrary to his party's tradition, president taft called for

a lower tariff

Woodrow Wilson was

a professor and college president

In the progressive period

many groups- blacks, the poor, the unorganized- had little influence

The clayton Anti trust act

outlawed proce discrimination and interlocking directorates

Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency

true

Frederick W. Taylor

wrote The Principles of Scientific Management