Progressivism | ||
#1 | This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators. | 17th Amendment |
#2 | A cause taken by the Women's Christian Temperance Union | prohibition |
#3 | A term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big business corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines and newspapers | muckrakers |
#4 | This reform governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry a major target | Robert M. La Follette |
#5 | This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a settlement house, working as the Chief Inspector of Factories of Illinois, and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act? | Florence Kelley |
Teddy Roosevelt | ||
#1 | This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection still used today. | Meat Inspection Act |
#2 | Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a commission to investigate the meatpacking industry. | The Jungle |
#3 | This was the principle that guided Roosevelt's efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas. | conservation |
#4 | The legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits. | Sherman Antitrust Act |
#5 | This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive. | Square Deal |
Women in Public Life | ||
#1 | This amendment granted women the right to vote. | 19th Amendment |
#2 | This movement was given new strength by a growing number of college educated women | Suffrage movement |
#3 | What hastened the passage of woman's right to vote? | World War I |
#4 | An advocate for improving the lives of women and children that helped win the Illinois Factory Act | Florence Kelley |
#5 | NAWSA acronym stood for | National American Woman Suffrage Association |
Taft | ||
#1 | Roosevelt's successor was | William Howard Taft |
#2 | President Taft could not unify this party | The Republican Party |
#3 | The Progressive Party later became known as this Party and was led by Teddy Roosevelt | The Bull Moose Party |
#4 | Tafts' support of this House Speaker split the Republican Party | Joseph Cannon |
#5 | He was the head of the US Forest Service under Roosevelt, but was fired by Taft for disagreeing with Richard Ballinger | Gifford Pinchot |
Wilson | ||
#1 | The primary motivation for passing this Amendment was to replace revenue lost by repealing high tariffs | 16th Amendment |
#2 | This was intended as a replacement to provide revenue for the federal government, once high tariffs were repealed | income tax |
#3 | This was one of the most imprtant of Wilson's achievements and continues to serve as the basis for the nation's bankin system | Federal Reserve System |
#4 | This agency was given the power to investigate unfair business practices and to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes | Federal Trade Commission (FTC) |
#5 | This act prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly | Clayton Antitrust Act |
Final Question | |
After campaigning on a platform of lowering tariffs, President Taft angered progressive supporters by signing this bill | The Payne-Aldrich Tariff |