US II Chapter 21

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In order to secure passage of the protectionist Payne-Aldrich tariff in 1909, Taft had to promise

Imposition of both corporate and personal income taxes

Who solved the banking crisis of 1907

J.P. Morgan go bankers together and bought banks out

Who founded Hull House

Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr

Who shot McKinley

Leon Czolgosz

In terms of their political beliefs, most progressives were actually

Moderates who wanted to preserve American institutions, though in an altered form

Theodore Roosevelt became known as a "trust buster" because he directed the justice department to prosecute

Northern Securities Company

What was teddy Roosevelt's role in the coal strike of 1902

He suspended the strike

Factual and fictional depictions is the corruption and vice that riddled American cities were responsible for

A broad political movement focused on the abuses that journalists exposed

All of the following trends were observable at the start of the twentieth century except

A continued fall in income

In the early part of this century concern for the miserable working and living conditions of laborers was expressed by

A minority of the well off who feared more radical change if some betterment of conditions could not be effected

Woodrow Wilson was

A progressive

Muckraking was

A term coined by teddy Roosevelt to describe the social critics of the day

Who was Gifford Pinchot

1sr chief of the United States forest services

The Underwood Simmons Tariff of 1913 represented victory for

Advocates of lower duties

The purpose of the federal reverse act passed in 1913 was to

Assure a greater degree of federal control over the monetary system and make short term credit more available

Unlike Cleveland's handling of the Pullman strike in 1894, Roosevelt handled the anthracite coal strike in 1902 by

Bring both sides together and having the issue arbitrated

William Howard Taft was a

Cautious and conservative leader whose specialty was constitutional law

Theodore Roosevelt felt that the role of the President was to

Define national problems and win Congress and the people to practical proposals for solutions

What did panic of 1907 lead to

Federal reserve system of 1913

Theodore Roosevelt's organization of a department of commerce and labor was a significant reform because it

Gave the government a means by which to secure information about business necessary for its regulation

Which tactic did labor leaders favor at the start of this century to win their economic goals

Organizing skilled laborers into trade unions for collective bargaining power against industry

In 1913 reformers accomplished two of their goals by which constitutional amendments

Popular election of senators and imposition of a federal income tax

Settlement houses

Provided a myriad of social services to neighborhood dwellers

Theodore Roosevelt's environmental policy reflected his belief that

Public land and natural resources should be scientifically managed and efficiently developed

Much of American literature of the early twentieth century is notable for its

Realistic portrayals of working-class life

Theodore Roosevelt did not run in the election of 1908 because

Roosevelt chose to honor the precedent set by Washington

President Roosevelt was ahead of his time in his views of

The need for protection of natural resources

Roosevelt's New Nationalism called all of the following except

Sale of government lands for tax revenues

What was the northern securities corp

Short lived American railroad trust

The Republican victory in 1908 rested on a coalition of all of the following except

Southern conservatives

What was the nickname for Teddy Roosevelt's Administration

Square Deal

Which of the following statements best describes the central tenets of Theodore Roosevelt's "new nationalism"

Strengthening of federal government for the purpose of monitoring business and industry

Theodore Roosevelt lost the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1912 because

Taft controlled the Republican national committee which influenced delegate selection in Taft's favor

Which of the following statements about he election of 1912 is not true

The House decided the election

The progressives tended to support the strengthening of which branch of government

The executive

A major difference between Taft and Roosevelt was that Taft believed

The executive should not interfere in essentially legislative or judicial matters

Theodore Roosevelt's ani trust policy reflected his belief that

The federal government should only dissolve monopolies which did not operate in public interest

Which was not a goal of feminists at the beginning of this century

The legalization of abortion

Which of the following best describes Roosevelt's policies during his first term

Use of strong progressive rhetoric coupled with careful handling of the Republican old guard on sensitive issues

In 1913 Eugene V. Debs head of the socialist party, split with "Big Bill" Haywood, founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, over the issue of

Using violence as a tool to bring about reform

Middle class women settlement house workers

We're committed to teaching the poor to help themselves

Which of the following was not a progressive era muckraker who published an exposé

William Howard Taft

What did Muller V. Oregon decide

Women could work no more than 10hrs a day


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