Theodore Roosevelt as Pres.
Which U.S President was assassinated leading to Theodore Roosevelts presidency?
Who is President William Mckinley
This US State that was commonly seen as a "democratic laboratory" in this era
What is Wisconsin
What party did Roosevelt form after losing to Taft for the Republican nomination?
What is the Progressive Party
This created the 12-bank system and stabilized currency and credit.
What is the Federal Reserve Act
These restrictions, like poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clause,s limited working-class power at the polls while embodying elitism and racial prejudice.
What are voting restrictions?
The term Roosevelt used to describe wealthy businessmen who abused their power.
What are "Malefactors of great wealth"
This group, created in 1909, was founded to develop more rights for African - Americans.
What is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Who ran for president as a socialist during this Election?
Who is Eugene V. Debs
This tax was passed in the 1890s but rejected by the Supreme Court, and was then reenacted as the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified by the states in February 1913.
What is the Progressive Income Tax
Founding editor of the progressive magazine New Republic who in 1914 noted Americans had “no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn’t made for a simpler age.”
Who is Walter Lippmann?
Roosevelt's approach differed from laissez-faire because he believed the federal government should do this to large corporations.
What is regulate or control them.
This Democratic Idea allowed citizens to directly vote an unpopular politician out of office.
What was the Right of Recall
What were 3 out of the 4 of New Nationalism?
What are:
Federal child labor law
A national minimum wage for women
Women’s suffrage
Curbs on the power of federal courts.
This law gave the Justice Department greater power to pursue antitrust cases to prevent corporations from exercising monopoly power, and also protected labor unions.
What is the Clayton Antitrust Act
Hostile courts struck down key regulatory laws passed by reformers, forcing them to try again by different means amid opposition from powerful business interests.
What are courts?
The Square Deal reflected this broader progressive era goal in American society.
What is increased government intervention to promote fairness and social justice?
This labor - focused experiment allowed states to provide aid if a family's "breadwinner" died. However, these also involved "home visits" to determine eligibility.
What were "Mother's Pensioners"
Which group did Roosevelt want to receive more political and workplace recognition under New Nationalism?
What are Labor unions and working people
This reform legislation regulated unfair business practices.
What is the Federal Trade Commission
Divisions among Black, immigrant, and native-born white laborers who viewed each other as enemies rather than united by common class interests.
What are divisions in the American working class?
The purpose of the Bureau of Corporations, created in 1903
What is to investigate business practices and support antitrust actions?
This Supreme Court decision upheld a law restricting the length of a female laborer's workday. It also showed a change in opinion from Lochner vs. New York from 3 years ago.
What is Muller vs. Oregon?
What brought the end of ARU during the Pullman Strike?
What was the arrest of Debs and other ARU
This act expanded labor protections and established an 8-hour workday.
What is the Adamson Act
Programs like health insurance and pensions waited until this decade.
What are the 1930s?