Teddy Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Muckrakers
Potpourri
Key Terms
100
A piece of legislation aimed at resource conservation enacted during TR's presidency
What is the Newlands Act?
100
The purpose of the Federal Reserve.
What was able to affect the amount of money in circulation?
100
The class most progressive reformers were from.
What is the middle class?
100
The first Jewish person to sit on the Supreme Court
Who is Louis Brandeis?
100
17th Amendment
Which amendment that provides for the direct election of senators?
200
2 laws passed during TR's administration that dealt with regulation of railroads
What are the Elkins and Hepburn Acts?
200
Wilson's slogan in the 1916 election
What is "He Kept Us out of War!"
200
Wrote "The Shame of the Cities."
Who is Lincoln Steffens?
200
The parties that progressives got much of their inspiration from.
What are the Populists and the Greenback Labor Parties?
200
Social Darwinism
What was used as "evidence" that wealthy industrialists deserved the wealth they accumulated.
300
How TR got the owners of the anthracite coal mines to the bargaining table
What is by threatening to nationalize the mines?
300
Wilson broke with precedent dating back to Thomas Jefferson
Why was Wilson personally delivering his presidential address to Congress significant?
300
What Upton Sinclair intended to expose when he wrote "The Jungle."
What is the plight of the workers?
300
The case in which the Supreme Court handed down its "rule of reason" interpretation of the Sherman Antitrust Act
What is US v. Standard Oil?
300
Lochner v. New York
Which case held that a state law limiting bakers to 10 hour days violated the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?
400
The event that spurred banking reform during TR's administration
What is the Panic of 1907?
400
Wilson's action toward African Americans
What is accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy?
400
A photojournalist
Who is Jacob Riis?
400
The progressives highest priority at the city level of government.
What is efficiency?
400
Muller v. Oregon
Which case held that female workers were entitled to special rules and protection on the job?
500
When she put TR's name in nomination for the presidency in 1912, it symbolized the rising political status of women.
Who is Jane Addams?
500
Exempted agricultural and labor organizations
What is the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
500
The target of his criticism was conspicuous consumption
Who is Thorstein Veblen?
500
Who TR saw as the "lunatic fringe" of the progressive reform movements.
Who are the Socialists?
500
Dollar Diplomacy
What is Taft's approach to American imperialism?
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