Key Terms
Reform-minded journalists who wrote articles in magazines that exposed corruption and scandal.
What are Muckrakers?
This author was a critical part of the standard Oil Company in 1894 with his book, Wealth Against Commonwealth
Who is Henry Demarest Lloyd
This program consisted of 3 parts: control of the corporations, consumer protection, and conservation of natural resources
What is the "Square Deal"
This established the direct election of U.S Senators in 1913
What is the 17th Amendment
This New York reporter wrote, "The Shame of the Cities" which unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.
A short economic downturn that resulted in financial reforms
The panic of 1907
The Progressives sought 2 goals:
1.) To use state power to control trusts
2.) To improve the common person's conditions of life and labor.
In 1903, Congress passed this act, which fined railroads that gave rebates and the shippers that accepted them.
What is the Elkins Act?
This act restricted free passes and expanded the Interstate Commerce.
What is the Hepburn Act of 1906
This person took control of the National Consumers League in 1899 and mobilized female consumers to pressure for laws safeguarding women and children in the workplace
Who is Florence Kelly?
This term could be used to describe how Taft encouraged Wall Street bankers to invest in foreign areas of strategic interest to the United States
What is Dollar Diplomacy
Progressives supported the "initiative" so that the voters could directly________
What is propose legislation?
In 1902, TR challenge this Railroad trust company that sought to achieve a monopoly of Northwest railroads. The supreme court upheld the President and the Trust was forced to dissolve.
Who is the Northern Securities Company
This act was designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
in 1909, this secretary of state proposed that Americans buy the Manchurian railroads and then turn them over to China.
Who is Philander C. Knox?
The National Progressive Republican League was formed in 1911 with this leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination
Who is La Follette
Progressive reformers also supported the "referendum" and the "recall" which allowed voters to directly vote on laws to__________
remove corrupt elected officials
During the panic of 1907 congress passed, with the help of TR, which authorized national banks to issue emergency currency in the event of a currency shortage.
What is the Aldrich-Vreeland Act
This act distributed federal land to the states on the condition that it be irrigated and settled.
What is the Carey Act of 1891?
This WI Governor took control from the corrupt corporations and returned it to the people.
Who is Robert M. La Follette?
The Supreme Court stated that a trust was illegal only if it unreasonably restrained trade.
The 1911 "Rule of Reason" doctrine
The supreme court ruled that it was constitutional to enact laws that specifically protected women factory workers.
What is Muller vs. Oregon (1908)
This bill placed a high tariff on many imports and made republicans very mad at Taft
What is the Payne-Aldrich Bill (1909)
This act stated that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines was subject to federal inspection
Meat Inspection Act of 1906
This person was a strong conservative but his conservative record was tarnished when he fired the CHief of Agriculture Department's Divison of Forestry.
Who is William Howard Taft?