Presidential Decisions
The president linked with "The Square Deal"
What is Roosevelt?
Name of the journalist who exposes societies ills.
What is a muckraker?
The movement of people to cities.
Definition of recall.
What is To force an official to resign?
Amendment prohibiting alcohol.
Ran as the 1908 Republican presidential candidate.
What is Taft?
What is Upton Sinclair?
A popular interdenominational religious organization.
What is YMCA, Salvation Army, Rescue Missions?
State with the most progressive reforms.
What is Oregon?
Amendment allowing women to vote.
What is the 19th?
Piece of legislature passed by Wilson that lowered tariff rates
What is The Underwood Tariff?
Name of a journal or novel written by a muckraker.
What is The Bitter Cry of the Children, The Shame of the Cities, On the Origin of Species?
Most popular writer of the day.
What is Samuel Clemens?
Definition of initiative.
What is allowed voters to propose their own legislation?
Idealistic Democrat.
What is Wilson?
The Act that Upton Sinclair helped spark.
What is the Pure Food & Drug Act?
Educational Trends.
What is larger number of free schools, colleges and universities, schools for blacks?
Definition of referendum.
What is allowed voters to pass judgment on acts that were already passed by state legislatures?
Amendment dealing with income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
Three progressive activities under Theo Roosevelt.
What is conserving land, regulating food and drug, and intervening in labor disputes?
2 significances of the muckrakers to Progressivism.
What is getting government involved, exposing corruption, increased influence of progressives?
Changes in religion.
What is growth of interdenominational organizations, rise of liberalism and agnosticism?
Federal Trade Commission
What is an agency set up to get data from corporations and stop abuse?
Reasons for political party split in 1912.
What is dispute over tariff, and in the cabinet?