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How did Roosevelt try to ensure that trusts were both fair to the public and allowed to operate efficiently
He created the Department of Commerce and Labor to investigate their practices.
What was the purpose of the new lands reclamation act of 1902
To irrigate and develop western lands for business and habitation
What was the primary concern of female progressives
Woman suffrage
What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
that African Americans could be "separate but equal
What is progressivism?
A set of responses to the problem cause by economic exapansion and industrialization
How did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois differ in their approach to Civil Rights?
A. Washington wanted to compromise politically while Du Bois did not.
What was one effect progressivism had on the American public's opinion of government?
Americans expected government to regulate the economy and deal with social issues
How did Southern states erode African American voting rights?
By imposing poll tax and literacy tests
How did Democratic leaders try to discourage poor white farmers from joining with African Americans in the Populist movementi Democratic
By warning that such a move would return the region to reconstruction
8. In 1892, Ida B. Wells launched a campaign aimed at
Ending the numerous lynchings in rhe south
Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as
Exodusters
In order to provide security for bank customers and oversight o f U.S. banks, Wilson supported the creation of the
Fedral reserve
Wilson believed that the result of Roosevelt's policies toward trusts
Gave the government too much power over the economy
What were Teddy's view on the environmental issues
He believed natural resources must be conserved
How did Woodrow Wilson gain a solid reputation as progressive?
He enacted many progressive reforms as governor of New Jersey
How did governor la follette reform the political party system in wisconsin
He helped pass a law requiring direct selection of political candidates through a primary.
During the coal strike, how did teddy end the dispute between the union and coal mine owners
He invited both groups to work together in arbitration
How did Wilson attempt to prompt American businesses to become more efficient and competitive in the global market?
He lowered the tariff on imported goods by 30%
How did president roosevelt deal with what he saw as the creation of a monopoly by J.P. Morgan's northern securities
He order the attorney general to file a lawsuit which eventually reached the supreme court
What was one of the great failures of progressivism as a social and political movement?
It failed to adress racial ethentic and religious discrimination in the country
What was the progressive stance toward municipal government
It needed to be run more efficiently using business pricipals
The laws passed by Southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were known as
Jom crows laws
What was the primary goal for the prohibition movement
Laws banning the manufacture sale and consumption of alcohol
What was the significance of Taft's signing the Payne- Aldrich into law
Many progressives felt betrayed and turned against him
who led a boycott against department stores in washington D.C. that refused to serve African Americans
Mary Church Terrell
Journalist who exposed the corruption and terrible social conditions were called
Muckrakers
7. The Board of Governors of the regional banks had the power to
Set national intrest rates amd regulate the circulation
Teddy progressive policies became known as?
Square deal
How did Taft handling of the u.s steel differ from the policies of Teddy's
Teddy encouraged regulation of trusts; Taft's sought to destroy them
What was the Supreme Court's ruling when it overturned the Civil Rights Act of 1875?
ThAt private organizations could segrate the races
What event prompted the congress to pass the meat inspection act
The publication and popularity of Putin Sinclair's the jungle
Wilson supported the creation of the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, in order to prevent companies from engaging in
Unfair trade pratices that limited competition
The primary difficulty of sharecropping was that the farmers
Were constanly in debt
WhAt was Roosevelt's desired successor to the presidency during the 1908 election
William Howard Taft
What three political reforms did progressives push for in state legislatures to make elected officials more responsive to voters
initiative, referendum, recall
One important provision in the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913 that affected individuals directly was?
the institution ofanincome tax on individual earnings
What two ideas did progressives propose to help properly manage municipal government
to appoint commissions with expert leaders and hire a city manager to oversee the city's operations
How did Roosevelt and Wilson differ in their beliefs about how the government should handle monopolies?
wilson believed monopolies should be destroyed while Roosevelt favored regulation
How were women eventually granted the right to vote
with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution
