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Result:
*10% wage increase
*A nine hour work day
*Create a labor control board to
arbitrate disputes
Significance:
The federal government stepped in
to help the people!!!!
Identification
Supply the correct identification for each numbered
description.
1.__________A largely middle-class movement that aimed to
use the power of government to correct the economic and
social problems of industrialism
2.__________Popular journalists who used publicity to
expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business
and government
3.__________Progressive proposal to allow voters to bypass
state legislatures and propose legislation themselves
4.__________Progressive device that would enable voters to
remove corrupt or ineffective officials from office
5.__________Roosevelts policy of having the federal
government promote the public interest by dealing
evenhandedly with both labor and business
Elected in 1904. Roosevelt became the
Trust Buster!
Trusts that harm and stifle competition are bad and
should be broken up, but trusts that run efficiently
and have low prices are good
Elkins Act
- prevented railroad rebates to favored customers
Hepburn Act
- government could set just and reasonable rates
- access to financial records for taxation
He established :
- 51 Bird Reserves,
- 4 Game Preserves
- 150 National Forests.
- signed into law the creation of 5 National Parks
- proclaimed 18 national monuments
- placed under public protection approximately
230,000,000 acres
Legislation:
Antiquities Act -
Allowed President to create national
monuments by proclamation,
without congressional approval
Tired of the presidency, Roosevelt endorsed
Legislation:
Mans - Elkins Act :
ICC can suspend RR rates and oversee
communications companies
16th Amendment :
Authorizes the government to collect
an income tax (on the very rich
only)
These and other acts split the Republican Party and led to the return
of
Teddy Roosevelt
And the establishment of
The Bull Moose Party
The Progressives in disguise
6.__________Effective railroad-regulation law of 1906
that greatly strengthened the Interstate Commerce
Commission
7.__________Disastrous industrial fire of 1911 that
spurred workmens compensation laws and some
state regulation of wages and hours in New York
8.__________Upton Sinclairs novel that inspired pro-
consumer federal laws regulating meat, food, and
drugs
9.__________Powerful womens reform organization
led by Frances Willard
10.__________Brief but sharp economic
downturn of 1907, blamed by
conservatives on the supposedly
dangerous president
11.__________Generally unsuccessful
Taft foreign policy in which government
attempted to encourage overseas
business ventures
12.__________Powerful corporation
broken up by a Taft-initiated antitrust suit
in 1911
Often a broad historical movement, such as progressivism, can best be understood by
breaking it down into various component parts. Among the varieties of progressive
reform discussed in this chapter are
(A) political progressivism
(B) economic or industrial progressivism
(C) consumer progressivism
(D) environmental progressivism
1. __________ The Newlands Act of 1902
2. __________ The ten-hour law for bakers
3. __________ The movement for womens suffrage
4. __________ The anthracite coal strike of 1902
5. __________ Direct election of senators
6. __________ The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
7. __________ The Pure Food and Drug Act
8. __________ Initiative, referendum, and recall
9. __________ Muller v. Oregon
10. __________ The Hepburn Act of 1906
11. __________ Yosemite and Grand Canyon National Parks
12. __________ Workmens compensation laws
1. What caused the Taft-Roosevelt split, and how
did it reflect the growing division between Old
Guard and progressive Republicans?
2. The two key goals of progressivism, according
to the text, were to use the government to curb
monopolistic corporations and to enhance the
ordinary citizens welfare. How successful was
it in attaining these two goals?
Put Chapter 29 Put the following events in correct order
by numbering them from 1 to 5.
1.__________Wilson extracts a dangerously conditional
German agreement to halt submarine warfare.
2.__________Wilsons superb leadership pushes major
reforms of the tariff and monetary system through Congress.
3.__________The bull moose and the elephant are both
electorally defeated by a donkey bearing the banner of New
Freedom.
4.__________The heavy loss of American lives to German
submarines nearly leads the United States into war with
Germany.
5.__________Despite efforts to avoid involvement in the
Mexican revolution, Wilsons occupation of a Mexican port
raises the threat of war.
Cause Effect
He believed:
- The President should lead the nation
Warehouse Act
Loans based on growth of staple crops
- basic crops (corn, wheat)
12 private regional Federal reserve banks each with its own branches,
board of directors and district boundaries
nationally chartered banks must become members of the Federal Reserve System.
Federal reserve banks act as fiscal agents for the United States government
(loan it money).
But Wilsons greatest foe was just around the corner.
Roosevelt Wilson