This act required the federal inspection of meat sold through interstate commerce.
What is Meat Inspection Act?
100
Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson could all be called this because of their actions against big business.
What is a trustbuster?
100
This controversial tariff actually raised tariffs on some goods.
What is the Payne-Aldrich tariff?
100
This was created by Roosevelt to oversee the newly created national parks, forests, and wildlife reservations.
What is the U.S. Forest Service?
200
Many people who were Progressives wanted to limit the manufacture, sale, and consumption of this product.
What is alcohol?
200
This was created to investigate and publicize problems with child labor.
What is the Children's Bureau?
200
This act gave the ICC power to set railroad rates.
What is the Hepburn Act?
200
This is a system of 12 regional banks run by a Board of Governors, who establishes interest rates and determines the amount of money in circulation.
What is the Federal Reserve?
200
Name the famous conservationist that urged Roosevelt to preserve America's natural resources and forests?
Who is John Muir?
300
This allows a group of citizens to introduce legislation.
What is initative?
300
This prohibited the manufacture, sale, and shipment of impure or falsely labeled food and drugs.
What is the Pure Food and Drug Act?
300
Roosevelt ended a strike in this industry by threatening to have the army come in and do their work.
What is the mining industry?
300
This tariff reduced the average tariff on imports by 30%.
What is the Underwood Tariff?
300
This person was fired by Taft for insubordination when he leaked to the newspapers that Richard Ballinger was selling government land to private interests.
Who is Gifford Pinchot?
400
He was the Progressive governor of Wisconsin.
Who is "Fighting Bob" Lafollette?
400
It prohibited the employment of children under age 14 in factories.
What is the Keating-Owen Child Labor Act?
400
Its primary job is to monitor American business and issue "cease and desist" orders if they are engaged in unfair business practices.
What is the FTC (Federal Trade Commission)?
400
This act gave loans to farmers at low interest rates.
What is the Federal Farm Loan Act?
400
This act authorized the use of federal funds for public land sales to pay for irrigation and land development projects.
What is the Newlands Reclamation Act?
500
This divided a city's government into several departments, each under the control of an expert.
What is commission plan?
500
This muckraker wrote about the horrible living conditions and poverty in American cities.
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
500
This president thought that monopolies were evil and should be eliminated.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
500
This amendment was added to the Constitution, requiring Americans to pay an income tax.
What is the 16th amendment?
500
The number of acres of national forests created by Theodore Roosevelt?