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History chapter 21
lesson 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt | took office after McKinley died |
| Square Deal | balanced interests of business people, laborers, and consumers for the public good |
| Arbitration | a formed process to settle disputes |
| Pure Food and Drug Act | law that prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transport of mislabeled or contaminated food and drugs |
| Who was the 1st president to use the 1860 Sherman Antitrust Act to break a monopoly? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Conservation | protection or nature and its resources |
| Gifford Pinchot | 1st head for the resources of the Forest Service |
| Forest Service | valued forests for the resources that provided to build "Prosperous homes" |
| William Howard Taft | favored regulation and opposed socialism/ Roosevelt's Secretary of war |
| Progressive Party | party created by Theodore Roosevelt and was nicknamed the bull moose party |
| Woodrow Wilson | biggest goal was passing reform legislation / was apart of the 16th amendment and Federal Reserve Act |
| Sixteenth Amendment | allows government to impose direct taxes on citizens' incomes |
| Federal Reserve Act | created a national banking system called the federal reserve to regulate economy |
| Clayton Antitrust Act | strengthened federal laws against monopolies |
| Federal Trade Commission | had the power to investigate and punish unfair trade practices |