American History Chapter 6

Underwood Tariff

A law that the average tariff on imported goods to about 30% of the value of the goods.

Niagara Movement

A meeting in 1905 that included W.E.B. Du Bois and other African American leaders to demand full political rights and responsibililties for African Americans resulted in the launching of the ____________.

Woodrow Wilson

As governor of New Jersey, he introduced many progressive reforms.

Cayton Antitrust Act

Banned price discrimination.

Prohibition

Banned the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol.

William Howard Taft

Brought many more antitrust cases during his term than Theodore Roosevelt did during his presidency.

True

By intervening in the labor dispute surrounding the coal strike of 1902, Roosevelt took the first step toward establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society.

Regulating the economy and solving social problems

By the end of the Progressive Era, Americans expected the government, particularly the federal government, to play more of an active role in ___________________________________.

Muckrakers

Crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.

Woodrow Wilson

Entered politics as a firm progressive.

Theodore Roosevelt

Established five new national parks and 51 wildlife reservations.

Nineteenth Amendment

Guarenteed women the right to vote.

Northern Securities

In 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attorney general to file lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against _____________________.

InterstateCommerce Commision

In 1920, ______________________ had moved away from its original purpose and had started setting rates to help ensure railroads' profit.

True

In international affairs, Theodore Roosevelt was a Social Darwinist.

Violated the Sherman Antitrust Act

In the Northern Securities v. United states case, the supreme court ruled that Northern Securities _________________.

New Freedom

In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson called his program the ________________.

Children's Bureau

Investigated and publicized problems with child labor

Sixteenth Amendment

Made it legal for the federal government to tax the income of individuals directly

Meat Inspection Act

Passed in response to 'The Jungle'

Recall

Progressive political reform allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had been expired.

Workers' compenstation laws

Progressives joined union leaders to pressure the states for _________________________ that would establish insurance funds for injured workers.

False

Progressives were pleased with William Howard Taft for pushing through the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.

Laissez-faire

Progressivism was partly a reacton agaisnt ______________ economics, which emphasized an unregulated free market.

Seventeenth Amendment

Provided the U.S. senators

Divide the Republican Party

Roosevelt warned Taft that tariff reform would _______________________.

Bureau of Mines

Taft set up _________________ to monitor the activitiess of mining companies, protect waterpower sites from private development and expand the national forests.

Coal Strike of 1902

The United Mine workers agreed to accept arbitration, a settlement negotiated by an outside party, but the mine owners refused.

Uderwood Tariff Act

The ____________ included a provision for levying on income tax

Legislature of each state.

The constitution originally stated that, in each state, U.S. senators would be elected by the ______________________________.

Sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits.

The laissez - faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to __________________________________.

Racial and Religious discrimination

The most conspicuous limit to the progressivism came in its failure to address_______________________________.

Building codes requiring fire escapes

The tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to ________________.

True

Theodore Rooselvelt believed that most trusts benefited the economy and breaking them up would do more harm than good.

Secretary of War

Theodore Roosevelt supported the Republican nomination of William Howard Taft in the 1908 election after Taft served as his _____________________.

Scientific Management

Through ____________, a company could become more efficiant by breaking tasks down into small parts and using standardized tools.

Direct Election

To counter Senate corruption, progressives called for _________________ of senators by all state voters rather that election by state legislature.

Federal Reserve system

To restore public confidence in the banking system, Woodrow Wilson supported the establishment of a _________________________.

Richard A. Ballinger

Tried to open nearly a million acres of public land to private development.

Alice Paul

Was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempts to use protests to force suffrage

Keating-Owen Act

Was passed in order to regulate child labor.

Robert M. La Follette

Wisconsin became a model of politcal reform under his leadership

Monopolies

Woodrow Wilson wanted the Federal Trade Commission to break up ____________________________.

Ida Tarbell

Wrote articles criticizing Standard oil.