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History Test 9/26
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the most powerful industry of all of the industrys? | railroads |
| what was roosevelts view of coorporations? | good and bad cooprs |
| direct primaries | people choose candidates |
| initiative | voters get to create new legislation |
| what were the problems with cities? | overcrowding sanitation water not clean poor health care corrupt police departments |
| what were the progressive leaders usually? | urban middle class women professionals journalists |
| what were the progressive leaders not? | african americans |
| australian ballot | secret ballot |
| referendum | allows citizens to accept or reject particular legislation |
| recall | have another election |
| civil service | tests ability not who they know |
| women's suffrage | 19th ammendment 1920 |
| who was the only american president who left presidency and went on to be chief justice of the supreme court? | william howard taft |
| ballinger pinchot controvery | balinger was secretary of interier, pinchot was chief forester |
| joe cannon dispute | cannon was speaker of the house |
| federal reserve act | created 12 bakers baks around country |
| ben bernanke | chairman of federal reserve board today |
| naturalist | honestly portrayed human misery and poverty |
| social gospel | walter rauchenbusch came up with it; havers need to give to the have nots |
| Jane Addams | Hull House |
| Margaret Sanger | Planned Parenthood |
| Booker T. Washington | Tuskegee Institute |
| What did the Tuskegee Institute do? | taught African Americans trade skills |
| W.E.B. DuBois | Founder of the NAACP |
| Thomas Nasts work | political cartoons about political corruption |
| Jacob Riis work | How the Other Half Lives... living conditions of urban poor |
| Ida B. Wells work | A Red Record... lynching of African Americans |
| Frank Norris work | The Octopus.. railroad practices |
| Ida Tarbell work | History of Standard Oil Company |
| Lincoln Steffans work | The Shame of the Cities... political corruption in cities |
| Upton Sinclair work | The Jungle... conditions and procedures in meant-packing industry |
| City Commissioner Plan | Cities hired experts in different fields to run a single aspect of city government |
| City Manager Pla | A professional city manager is hired to run each department of the city and report directly to the city council |
| Newlands Reclamation Act | Allowed the building of dams and irrigation systems using money from the sale of public lands |
| Elkins Act | Outlawed the use of rebates by railroad officials or shippers |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | companies label the ingredients contained in processed food items |
| Meat Inspection Act | meat processing plants be inspected... response to The Jungle |
| Hepburn Act | Strengthened Interstate Commerce commission, allowing it to set maximum railroad rates |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | strengthened sherman antitrust act; outlawed the creation of a monopoly through any means, and states that unions were not subject to antitrust legislation. |
| Federal Trade Act | Established the FTC |
| 16th Amendment | Granted Congress the power to tax income (taft) |
| 17th Amendment | Provided for the direct election of US Senators (taft) |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibited making, selling, or transporting alcohol (wilson) |
| 19th Amendment | Provided women suffrage (voting) (wilson) |
| Adamson Act | established 8 hour work day and overtime pay for railroad workers |
| Which reform resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory? | workers compensation laws |
| Political machines | corrupt organizations built by city officials |
| temperance movement | the campaign to promote the practice of never drinking alcohol |
| Florence Kelley | formed the Womans trade union leeague |
| NCL | identified products made under healthful working conditions and encoureaged women to buy these products |
| suffrage | the right to vote |
| Alice Paul | founded the National Women's Party |
| Who founded the National Association of colored Women to help AA families and those who were less fortunate? | Ida B. Wells |
| The NWP and the NAWSA primarily differed in their | strategies |
| the 1903 Muller v Oregon decision upheld | limited work hours for women |
| Niagara Movement | denounced gradual progress |
| urban league | helped poor AA workers find jobs in cities |
| mutualists | made loans and provided legal systems for mexicans |
| Which event led to the formation of the NAACP? | the 1908 Springfiels riot |
| Which group formed the Anti-Defation League to defend itself against verbal attacks and false statements? | jews |
| In 1913 California forced Japanese Americans to | sell their land |
| what park is oriented with John Muir? | Yosemite National Park |
| The ______ Act gave the gov the authority to set and limit shipping costs | Hepburn |
| The concept of "rational use" suggested that | forests be preserved for public use |
| The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of which natural resource? | water |
| Wilson tried to protect workers by | lowering import tariffs |
| Why did the US banking system need to be reformed int he early 1900s? | the nation had no central authority to supervise banks |
| President Wilson pushed for the passage of the Adamson Act to | prevent a nationwide railroad strike |
| What was Roosevelts program for fair gov | Square Deal |
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