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American History chapter 23
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the dates of the Progressive Era | 1900-1920 |
| the year of the Ford Motor Co. | 1903 |
| the year Henry Ford introduced the Model "T" | 1908 |
| the place and date of the first successful airplane flight | Kitty Hawk, North Carolina in 1903 |
| the year of KDKA | 1920 |
| the sinking of the Titanic | 1920 |
| the center of life for most Americans at the turn of the century | the home |
| the man who revolutionized transportation in America | Henry Ford |
| the most famous automobile ever built | Model T |
| Henry Ford engineered an automobile...,dramatically increasing the speed of production while cutting the cost of the Model T | assembly line |
| the two places Henry Ford established | Greenfield and the Ford Museum |
| the largest philanthropic organization in the world | Ford Foundation |
| the brothers who made the first successful powered flight | Wilbur and Orville Wright |
| the man who devised a wireless telegraph system | Guglielmo Marconi |
| the first commercial broadcasting station in the United States | KDKA |
| one important advance in the 20th century technology was the perfection of...in manufacturing | automation |
| the main indicator of increasing prosperity among all classes of people | the steady growth of the nation's savings banks |
| the youngest man ever to become President (at the age of 42) | Theodore Roosevelt |
| the most popular president of the early 1900s | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Roosevelt was part of this group which had won fame in Cuba | "Rough Riders" |
| the first two decades of the 20th century are often referred to as... | the Progressive Era |
| teddy roosevelt wanted a...for all americans | "square deal" |
| one of the early progressive leaders who earned the nickname "Battling Bob" | Robert M. La Follette |
| the three presidential administrations that were progressive in nature | Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson |
| the act which speeded up the handling of antitrust cases in the federal courts | Expedition Act |
| Roosevelt's action against these big businesses won him the title... | "trust-buster" |
| the act that made it illegal for a shipper to accept a rebate from a railroad | Elkins Act |
| the act that strengthened the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission over the railroads | Hepburn Act |
| the department established in 1903 that included a Bureau of Corporations, which had authority to investigate large industrial combinations | Department of Commerce and Labor |
| the workers who in 1902 went on strike (they were led by John Mitchell) | United Mine Workers |
| the author who published a series of articles entitled "history of the standard oil company" and attacked practices followed by big businesses | Ida M. Tarbell |
| the author who wrote "shame of cities", a condemnation of corrupt city politics | Lincoln Steffens |
| the author who published a novel entitled The Jungle, which portrayed conditions in Chicago's large meatpacking houses | Upton Sinclair |
| what Roosevelt called the writers "centered on the filth at his feet that he did not look up to see the 'celestial crown' before him" | muckrakers |
| the act which granted federal authorities the power to inspect all meat shipped in interstate commerce to see that it did not come from diseased animals and that it was processed and packaged under sanitary conditions | Meat Inspection Act |
| the act which was designed to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulterated foods and drugs | Pure Food and Drug Act |
| Roosevelt's chief forester who published conservation articles in National Geographic and other magazines | Gifford Pinchot |
| the commission established to inventory the nation's natural resources (Gifford Pinchot was its first chairman) | National Conservation Commission |
| the act that provided that money from the sale of public land in 16 western states was to be used to initiate irrigation projects to make arid land productive | Newlands Reclamation Act |
| the dam constructed in Arizona on the Salt River that provided water to irrigate more than 200,000 acres | Roosevelt Dam |
| the treaty (1850) that had stipulated that if such a canal were built, it would be under the joint control of the united states and great britain (this treaty was later eliminated to build the panama canal) | Clayton-Bulwer Treaty |
| the treaty that granted the united states the right to build and police a canal through central america | Hay-Pauncefote Treaty |
| the treaty that granted the united states a zone ten miles wide through the isthmus of panama | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty |
| the man who was appointed chief sanitary officer in the canal zone | Colonel William S. Gorgas |
| the army engineer who took charge of the panama canal project | Colonel George Washington Goethals |
| the year the Panama Canal was completed | 1914 |
| Teddy Roosevelt's slogan concerning his foreign policy | "speak softly and carry a big stick" |
| Roosevelt's statement added to the Monroe Doctrine that said that the United States would see that European powers were given no excuse to exert undue influence on Latin American nations | Roosevelt Corollary |
| large areas along China's coast where several nations controlled economic affairs and trade with the outside world | "spheres of influence" |
| the policy that each nation agree not to interfere with trade rights of other nations, or discriminate against citizens of other nations, within its sphere of influence | Open Door Policy |
| the rebellion where Chinese attacked foreigners and murdered over 200 westerners | the Boxer Rebellion |
| one of the most famous survivors of the Boxer Rebellion, a missionary from Canada | Jonathan Goforth |
| the war that took place after Japan was angered by Russian expansion in Manchuria | Russo-Japanese War |
| the agreement with Japan in which Roosevelt persuaded the San Francisco school board to allow Japanese children to attend regular schools and the Japanese government agreed to withhold passports from Japanese laborers seeking to come to the united states | Gentlemen's Agreement |
| the fleet Roosevelt sent to demonstrate America's increasing military strength to the world | Great White Fleet |
| the president after Roosevelt | William Howard Taft |
| the bill that lowered the rates on some items but kept most rates substantially as they were under the Dingley Tariff | Payne-Aldrich Bill |
| the rule that stated that only those combinations suspected of constituting an "unreasonable" restraint of trade should be prosecuted | "rule of reason" |
| the act which greatly strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission by giving it greater control over railroad shipping rates and bringing the supervision of telephone, telegraph, and cable companies under its control | Mann-Elkins Act |
| the bureau created to conserve natural resources and help protect the welfare of miners | Bureau of Mines |
| the foreign policy based on that American investment would promote friendly diplomatic relations by creating close economic ties | "dollar diplomacy" |
| what the Progressive Party was popularly known as | the "Bull Moose Party" |
| the man who won the election of 1912 | Woodrow Wilson |
| the only man to serve first as President and then as chief justice of the Supreme Court | William Taft |
| the first President since John Adams to make a personal appearance before Congress | Woodrow Wilson |
| the bill that one was on the most significant tariffs acts in American history because the act provided for a tax on personal incomes to make up for the loss of revenue anticipated by the lowering of tariff rates | Underwood-Simmons Bill |
| the levying of income tax had been made possible by.... | the 16th Amendment to the Consitution |
| the act that divided the nation into 12 banking districts with a Federal Reserve Bank located in each district | Federal Reserve Act (1913) |
| the commission that was empowered to investigate businesses engaged in interstate commerce and issue "cease and desist" orders against what it deemed to be unfair trade practices | Federal Trade Commission |
| the act which declared certain business practices illegal, such as the interlocking directorate and the holding company | the Clayton Antitrust Act |
| in 1917, the united states purchased...for 25 million dollars | the Danish West Indies (the Virgin Islands) |
| the man who overthrew Mexico's aging dictator Porfirio Diaz | Francisco Madero |
| the man who established a new bloody, dictatorial regime in Mexico after murdering Madero | Victoriano Huerta |
| Victorian Huerta's rivals whom arms and ammunitions were shipped to from America | Venustiano Carranza and Fransico ("Pancho") Villa |
| a squadron of American war vessels was stationed at Mexico's Atlantic seaport town of ... | Tampico |
| President Wilson sent American naval forces to occupy this city and keep Huerta's forces from receiving the German munitions | Veracruz |
| the ABC Powers are... | Argentina, Brazil, and Chile |
| President Wilson sent 15,000 American troops under the command of this man into Mexico to capture Villa | General John Pershing |
| the man who served as speaker of the House from 1903 to 1911 and became known for ruling the House with an especially uncompromising hand | Joseph G ("Uncle Joe") Cannon |
| the amendment that provided for the direct election of senators by the voters | the 17th Amendment |
| the amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote | the 19th Amendment |
| a process by which a stipulated percentage of voters in a state can initiate or begin the passage of a state law without waiting for the state legislature to propose the law | the initiative |
| the process by which a proposed law is referred to the voters, who can then pass or defeat it | the referendum |
| the process by which an official may be removed from office before his term expires | the recall |
| the election in which all of the registered voters of a party decide by ballot which candidate will run against the opposing party's candidate in the final election | primary election |
| the voting process in which policy making officers were to be elected and policy enforcing officers were to be appointed | the short ballot |
| the city that was almost destroyed by a tidal wave in 1900 | Galveston, Texas |
| the type of commissioner that is completely responsible for the operation of one department of city government | city commissioner |
| the manager hired by a city council that is supposed to be well qualified in the efficient management of municipal government | city manager |
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