US History 1302 CHAP 21

In 1900, approximately how many Americans lived in desperate poverty?

10 million

Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908.

False

Who stated, "most of us in the North do not believe in any real Democracy between white and colored men."

Ray Stannard Baker

All of the following statements regarding the coal strike of 1902 are true EXCEPT:

Roosevelt was too cozy with the coal industry.

The popular election of senators required a constitutional amendment.

True

Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name.

True

Gifford Pinchot, a close friend of Roosevelt's and the nation's first professional forester, was appointed head of the:

U.S. Division of Forestry.

During the 1912 presidential campaign, who said, "There are so many people in the country who don't like me"?

William H. Taft

Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for:

a lower tariff.

The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

exposing social problems to the public.

The National Child Labor Committee pushed:

for laws banning the widespread employment of young children.

The issue that made Taft seem to be a less reliable custodian of Roosevelt's conservation policies was Taft's:

handling of the Ballinger and Pinchot affair.

The Underwood-Simmons Tariff:

lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson.

Congress established the Bureau of Corporations to:

monitor the activities of interstate corporations.

As president, Taft:

opened more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had marked for conservation in nearly eight.

In 1917, a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification.

Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT the:

poll tax.

WCTU:

stood for Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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

the Republican party had split in two.

In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:

used the Forest Reserve Act to protect over 170 million acres of forest.