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History
Wilsonian Progressivism Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the basic contrast between the two progressive candidates? Theodore Roosevelt & Wilson | Roosevelt wanted the federal government to regulate the economy and promote social welfare. Wilson wanted to restore economic competition and social equality. |
| What was the four-footed symbol of Roosevelt's Progressivism third party in 1912? | Bull Moose |
| What was the fourth political party, led by a former labor union leader, that garnered nearly a million votes in 1912? | Socialist, Debs |
| What was the primary reason Wilson won the election of 1912? | Taft and Roosevelt split the former republican vote. |
| What was Wilson's primary weakness as a politician? | His tendency to be inflexible and refuse to compromise. |
| What was the "triple wall of privilege" that Wilson set out to reform? | The tariffs, the banks, and the trusts. |
| What was Wilson's political philosophy of restoring democracy through trust-busting and economic competition? | New freedom |
| How did Wilson believe the president should provide national leadership? | Appeal directly to people |
| What did he use to push through his progressive reforms of the tariff, monetary systems and trusts? | Popular appeal |
| During Wilson's administration, Congress exercised the authority granted by the newly enacted Sixteenth Amendment and passed what tax? | A federal income tax |
| What was the twelve-member agency appointed by the president to oversee the banking system under a new federal law of 1913? | Federal Reserve Board |
| What was the new regulatory agentry created by the Wilson administration in 1914 to attack monopolies, false advertising, and consumer fraud? | The Federal Trade Commission |
| While it attacked business trusts, what organizations were exempted from antitrust prosecution under the Clayton Anti-Trust Act? | Agriculture and labor organization |
| Who was the labor leader who hailed the Clayton Anti-Trust Act as the "Magna Carta of labor"? | Gompers |
| Who was a leading progressive reformer and the first Jew named to the U.S. Supreme Court? | Brandeis |
| How did Wilson effectively reform the banking and financial system? | Establishing a publicly controlled 12 member Reserve Board with Regional Banks under bankers control. |
| What was Wilson's reform law that established an eight-hour day for railroad workers? | bankers control Railway Labor Act. |
| What groups did Wilson's progressive measure substantially aid? What group did it leave out? | Blacks, (workers, farmers, children) |
| What foreign policies of Roosevelt and tAft did Wilson attempt to reverse, especially in Latin America? | Taft - dollor diplomacy Roosevelt - big stick policy |
| What was Wilson's initial attitude toward the Mexican revolutionary government? | to refuse recognition of General Huerta's regime but avoid American intervention. |
| Who was Huerta's successor as Mexican president, who took aid form the United States but strongly resisted American military intervention in Mexico? | Carranza |
| What troubled Caribbean island nation had a president murdered leading Wilson to send in the marines and assume American control of the police and finances? | Haiti |
| What were the port cities where clashed between Mexicans and American military forces nearly led to war in 1914? | Tampico, Vera Cruz |
| Who was a Mexican revolutionary whose assaults on American citizens and territory proved a U.S. expedition into Mexico? | Villa |
| Who was the commander of the American military expedition into Mexico in 1916-1917? | Pershing |
| Who were the ABC powers and what were they able to do in 1914? | Argentina They don't want to be involved in Mexican- Brazil American war Chile |
| General Pershing's expedition into Mexico was a particular response to what actions? | They killed American Citizens. |
| What as the small European nation in which an Austro-Hungarian heir was killed, leading to the outbreak of World War I? | Serbia |
| What World War I alliance was headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary? | Central Powers |
| Who was the autocratic ruler who symbolized ruthlessness and arrogance to many pro-Allied Americans? | Kiser, Wilhelm II |
| What is the coalition of powers - led by Britain, France, and Russia - that opposed Germany and its supporting nations in World War I? | Allies |
| What strengthened the sympathy of a majority of Americans for the Allies and against Germany? | The German invasion of Belgium |
| What was the new underwater weapon that threatened neutral shipping and apparently violated traditional norms of international law? | Submarines |
| What enabled Wilson to successfully pressure the German government to cease from sinking merchant and passenger ships without warning? | Lusitania, Sussex, Arabic |
| Describe the type of ship the Lusitania was. | British passenger ship |
| After the sinking of the Lusitania, Which section of the country favored war with Germany? What did the other sections want? | East, negotiate |
| What was Germany's highly conditional agreement in 1916 not sink passenger and merchant vessels without warning? | Sussex pledge |
| What was Wilson's most effective slogan in the campaign of 1916? | He kept us out of war. |
| What key electoral state gave Wilson a tiny majority to tip the balance against Hughes in 1916? | California |
| What Caribbean Territory was purchased by the United States from Denmark in 1917? | Virgin Islands |
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