Robber Barons and Industry
How were the Granger movement and Populist party similar?
Improve conditions for farmers
Whose book The Jungle led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?
Upton Sinclair
What's one of the main reason people were anti-immigration at this point in history?
Fear of losing their jobs to immigrants
What was main purpose of Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Act?
Prevent monopolies
What 3 things most led to the Spanish-American War?
What area of the world did Big Stick diplomacy refer to?
Latin America
What geographic feature most influenced the ability to protect its mainland from attack during WWI?
Atlantic Ocean
Why were they called robber barons
Who were Muckrakers?
Investigative journalists
What type of people would have supported an open immigration policy?
Industrialists
Why was the Federal Reserve System created?
Regulate the nation's money supply
What did the Platt Amendment do?
What is "Big Stick Diplomacy"? Whose policy was this?
All of the following increased government power during WWI except....
War Industries Board
Dawes Plan
Sedition Act
Espionage Act
Dawes Plan
What is Social Darwinism?
What were the goal of adopting initiatives, referendums and recalls?
Why did political bosses try to help the community?
Votes
Why was the Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act passed?
Ensure safety of American consumers
Who was president during building of the Panama Canal?
Roosevelt
Why did Americans want to annex Hawaii?
Taxes on sugar, etc
How was Wilson's policy of neutrality tested during early years of WWI?
German violations of freedom of the seas
Why did employers black list or give yellow-dog contracts?
Prevent them from joining unions
"Prices and wages should be determined by the marketplace."
The author of this statement would most probably support...
wage and price controls
minimum wage laws
government ownership of utilities
laissez-faire capitalism
laissez-faire capitalism
List two reasons the 16th amendment may have passed.
More revenue for government
Resentment during Progressive movement for unequal distribution of wealth
Which president was anti-imperialism esp with Hawaii?
Cleveland
The Roosevelt Corollary (1904) to the Monroe Doctrine proclaimed the right of the US to.....
intervene in the internal affairs of Latin America
What most influenced the United States to enter WWI?
Unrestricted submarine warfare
Pay low wages
Make workers work long hours
Prevent workers from joining unions
Thought economic competition was inefficient and wasteful
List four goals of the progressive movement.
Strengthen labor unions
Unemployment insurance
Workers' comp
Direct Primary
Direct election of senators
ETC
repayment of all Allied war expenses by Germany
lower tariffs to promote free trade
across-the-board reductions in majority military weapons
creation of an international peacekeeping organization
repayment of all Allied war expenses by Germany