Chapter 9 (US History)

Federal Trade Commission

new "watch dog" agency given the power to stop unfair business

List two leaders who were actively involved in securing the right to vote for women.

-Carrie Chapman Caft -Susan B. Anthony

William H. Taft

1908, Republican, wins with Roosevelt's support. Does not use presidential bully pulpit to arouse public opinion. Signs Payne-Aldrich Tarriff

List the four goals of the Progressive movement

-Protecting social welfare -promoting moral improvement -creating economic reform -fostering efficiency

Susan B. Anthony

National American Woman suffrage Association; works for woman suffrage, right to vote

The law that required truthful labels was the...?

Pure food and drug act

Square Deal

Roosevelt's Progressive reforms

The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was?

Theodore Roosevelt

Conservation

movement to protect America's resources

In the election of 1912, the candidate that was considered least pleasing to reformers was?

Ugene v. Debs

Woodrow Wilson

democrat reform governor of New Jersey;pushes for Underwood Act to substantially reduce tariffs

In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as?

domestic work

The primary goal of the NAACP was?

equality among races

Upton Sinclair

exposed unsanitary conditions in meat packing

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as?

initiative

What were Muckrakers

journalists who expose corruption in politics, bussiness

Federal Reserve system

plan that formed how American banks were organized;private banking system under federal control

Florence Kelley

political activist, advocate for women, children, helps pass law prohibiting child labor, limiting women's laws

Progressivism

reform movement that sought to bring the control government back to people

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed...?

unsanitary conditions in meat packing