Chapter 28: Part 3
The Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving?
Standard Oil.
Define: Ballinger-Pinchot affair
Where Gifford Pichot, chief of the Agriculture Department's Division of Forestry, was fired by President Taft for insubordination after criticizing Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger.
Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because?
William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies.
Define: Newlands Act
1902 act which authorized Washington to collect money from the sale of public lands in the sun-baked western states and then use these funds for the development of irrigation projects.
Define: Yosemite National Park
National Park in California where a dam was allowed to be built in 1913 in an area known as the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the?
Newlands Act.
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was especially facilitated by the publication of?
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as?
a middle-of-the-road reformer.
While president, Theodore Roosevelt?
greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency.
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring achievement may have been?
his effort supporting the environment.
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the?
plight of workers in the stockyards and the meat-packing industry.
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ____________ trusts.
regulating
As president, William Howard Taft?
was wedded more to the status quo than to progresive change.
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed?
dollar diplomacy.
Define: Lochner v. New York
A 1905 case in which the Supreme Court invalidated a New York law establishing a ten hour work day for bakers.
Define: Northern Securities case
A case where the Supreme Court upheld Teddy Roosevelt's anti-trust suit and ordered the Northern Securities company to be dissolved.
Define: Women's Trade Union League
A female activist organization that gravitated towards maternal issues such as safety in the workplace, health and children in the workplace. These were just a few of the causes they focused on.
What was the meaning of the term skid row ?
A way in which cut logs were pulled out of the forrest by loggers. It could also be referred to as skid road, a way that cut logs were pulled out of the forrest by loggers. A sleazy section of logging towns often frequented by loggers in the offseason.
Define: Pure Food and Drug Act
Act passed in 1906 that was designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
Define: The Jungle
Book by Upton Sinclair depicting the unsanitary conditions of the meat-packing industry.
Define: Sierra Club
Dedicated itself to preserving the wildness of the western landscape.
Define: New Nationalism
Doctrine promoted by Teddy Roosevelt in 1910 that urged the national government to increase its power to remedy economic and social abuses.
Define: Old Guard
The existing non-reformist faction of the Republican party during the early 1900s.
Define: dollar diplomacy
The foreign policy praticed by William Howard Taft.
Define: Muller v. Oregon
Would be looked at as discriminatory and limiting for women in the future. Was argued by famous lawyer Louis Brandeis in 1908. Landmark case where the Supreme Court accepted the constitutionality of laws protecting women workers by presenting evidence of the harmful effects of factor labor on women's weaker bodies.
Define: Triangle Shirtwaist fire
Would eventually lead to safer workplace conditions and worker's compenation laws being put on the books in most states. A tragic fire at a garment factory in New York where 146 workers were killed. A tragedy that resulted in a strike by women workers for better working conditions.
During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following EXCEPT? a. tame capitalism. b. provide an international perspective. c. expand presidential power. d. aid the cuse of the environment.
a. tame capitalism.
Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he?
announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president.
The idea of "multiple-use resource management" included all of the following practices EXCEPT? a. summer stock grazing. b. damming of rivers. c. sustained-yield logging. d. recreation.
b. damming of rivers.
The Panic of 1907 stimulated reform in __________________ policy.
banking.
