Definitions
Voters are given the opportunity to either approve or turn down laws passed by a state government.
Referendum
True or False: Taft lowered tariffs as soon as he got into office
False
This third-party was created by Teddy Roosevelt after he was severely upset with what Taft did while in office.
Which President was known to be an anti-socialist?
Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
Tariff
enables the voters to remove from office an ineffective politician.
Recall
What are the three areas during Progressivism that needed reformed and give an example of one of them.
Political, social, and economic
Teddy Roosevelt created the Forestry Administration and set aside acres of land to help with the environment. What was this called?
Conservation
Which President was also the Secretary of War before he came into office?
William Howard Taft
Upton Sinclair wrote this book exposing the meat-packing industry
The Jungle
Journalists who exposed the ills of society and called for reform.
Muckrakers
The United Mine Workers went on strike due to low wages. TR intervened due to the fact that without coal the nation would be without a major source of heating fuel. What is this event?
1902 Anthracite Coal Strike
What amendment allows the people to elect senators through voting?
The 17th amendment
Which President went after trusts and attempted to "bust them up" (break them up?)
Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt
Teddy Roosevelt also created this specific group of the government to watch over the manufacturing of food, drinks, and medicine.
The FDA
What is a trust?
a type of legal corporate monopoly
What is new nationalism?
Called for greater regulation of business and workplaces, income and inheritance taxes, and electoral reforms.
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Improved the quality of food and drugs for the American people
Which President oversaw the Clayton Antitrust Act?
What did the Clayton Antitrust Act do?
Woodrow Wilson
The Federal Trade Commission was created to set up fair trade laws and to enforce antitrust laws.
Who was Jacob Riis?
Was a muckraker who took pictures of the lives of immigrants and children who were living and working under awful conditions
What is socialism? What is capitalism? How are they different?
Public ownership of goods and services
Private ownership of goods and services
With socialism products are owned by the people as a collective, in capitalism, they are owned by private companies.
What is a primary election?
An election in which the voters choose the candidates to run for office. The direct primary is an election in which the voters, not political bosses, choose the candidates.
What is the 19th amendment? What are two examples of how that affected women?
Gave women the right to vote
More women were out of the home getting jobs, more women were divorcing their husbands.
This president was called a "puppet of big business" and was criticized by another President. Who was the puppet, and who did the criticizing?
William Howard Taft was the puppet, Teddy Roosevelt criticized him
What are the three "big evils" that Woodrow Wilson attacked when he became President?
Tariffs, trusts, and the banking system