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| What years are considered the "Progressive Era"? |
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| What scandal/corruption did the book, The Jungle, dealt with? |
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| He dealt with the Meat Inspection Act. It required federal inspection of mean and Agriculture Department to set standards of cleanliness in meatpacking plants due to how unsanitary The Jungle pretrayed them to be. |
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| How did the Commission Plan work in city government? |
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| It worked well, more cities soon followed the comission plan. This is when a city's government would be divided into several departments, which would each be placed under the control of an expert comissioner. |
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| Which state is known as the Laboratory of Democracy? |
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| What is the 19th Amendment and when was it passed? |
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| The Women Suffrage Ammendment in 1918. |
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| Why were labor laws passed? Who were "breaker boys"? What happened at the Shirtwaist Company? |
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| The Child Labor Laws passed stated that children had to be a certain age to work and they could only work for a maximum of a certain amount of hours. Breaker Boys were boys hired at the age 9 or 10 to pick slack out of coal and were pain 60 cents for a 10-hour work day. The Shirtwaist company burned down and killed 150 women working trapped by doors locked from the oustide caustin strict building codes like fire hazards and working conditions. |
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| Who called their progressive reforms the Square Deal? |
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| What industry was the "Northern Securities" associated with? |
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| The Railroads in which Roosevelt took them to court and won. |
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| Was Roosevelt involvement in "Northern Securities vs. United Sates" and the coal workers strike? Was he victorious? |
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| Yes, It was his first step toward establishing the Federal Government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society. |
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| Do you agree with the Pure Food and Drug Act? |
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| Yes, because people should only be using drugs to help heal themselves not for recreational purposes. That is not what they were made for. |
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| Who did Roosevelt support in the election of 1908? |
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| Who won the election of 1908? |
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| How was Taft unlike Roosevelt? |
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| Roosevelt was a dynamic person who loved the spot light and the rough-and-tumble world of politics. He had grand ideas and schemes but left the details of administering them to other. Taft was the opposite in many ways. He was a skillful administrator and judge. He disliked political maneuvering and preferred to avoid conflict with other. |
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| Why did Roosevelt reenter the 1912 Presidential election? |
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| He reentered the election to attempt to replace Taft as the Republican nominee for president. |
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| What happened to the Republican party when Roosevelt tried to run against Taft? |
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| It divided making the Progressive Party |
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| What was the nickname of Roosevelt's newly formed Progressive Party? |
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| What was Roosevelt's program called? |
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| What was Wilson's program called? |
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| Which one wanted monopolies destroyed? |
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| Who won the election of 1912? |
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| Did the Underwood Tariff reduce or raise tariffs? |
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| What is the Federal Reserve Bank? |
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| The law that set up central banking in 1913 |
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| Why was the Federal Reserve Act created? |
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| It was created because the Board of Governors was indirectly controlling the interest rates of the entire nation and the amount of money in circulation. |
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| One of the 23 African Americans that met up at Niagra Falls to demand full political rights and responsibilites for African Americans. |
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| Why did W.E.B. Du Bois's group meet in Canada? |
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| To demand full political rights and responsibilites for African Americans. |
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| What group was founded as a result of this meeting? |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| reform movement that believed the solution to social problems lay in a more active role on the part of government. |
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| journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption |
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| muckrakers who wrote about poor conditions facing many immigrant neighborhoods in New York City |
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| Republican governor of Wisconsin who attacked the way political parties ran their conventions and introduced the direct primary. |
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| A party election in which all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election. |
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| A reform that allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it. |
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| A reform that allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired |
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| Suffragist who formed the National Woman's Party |
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| The moderation or elimination of alcohol. |
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| Laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol. |
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| The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole. |
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| The reform programs of President Roosevelt. |
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| A giant holding company broken up by Theodore Roosevelt. |
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| A union for mine workers. |
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| A settlement imposed by an outside party |
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| A law intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission |
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| Author of The Jungle, which described horrible conditions in the meatpacking industry. |
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| Speaker of the House under President Taft |
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| A law passed during the Taft administration that did not effectively lower tariffs. |
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| Taft's secretary of the interior who was a conservative corporate lawyer |
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| newly formed political party, nicknamed the Bull Moose Party |
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| suggested reform programs of Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 |
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| Direct Tax on the earnings of individuals and corporations. |
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| Law that set up a central banking system in 1913. |
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| Agency created by Congress to monitor American Buisness |
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| Buisness practices that unfairly limited competion |
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| (NAACP) Association formed in 1909 to bring an end to lynching and racial discrimination |
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| National Association for the Advancement of Colored People |
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| What did most progressives believe was the cause of the nation's social problems? |
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| They believed that industrialism and urbanization had caused most social problems |
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| From where did efficiency progressives get their ideas on how to run city government? |
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| They got their ideas from buisnesses. |
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| What election reform did Robert La Follette introduce? |
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| He introduced the Direct Primary. |
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| How did the National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association differ regarding gaining suffrage for women? |
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| The Nationals wanted them to pass and guaruntee women suffrage and the Americans just wanted the right to vote. |
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| What reforms did progressives work for regarding labor? |
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| They made reforms for child labor, compensation laws, and prohibition and moderation (temperance) of alcohol. |
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| In what two ways did progressives believe big business should be regulated? |
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| Some wanted the people to be wealthy other wanted socialism. |
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| What was President Roosevelt's view of big corporations? |
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| He believed that large corporations were an important part of the reason for the nations prosperity and they also hurt the government. |
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| What was the subject of the Upton Sinclair's The Jungle? |
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| The subject was about the unsanitary conditions in mealpackaging. |
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| How did Americans' view of the federal government change during the Roosevelt administration? |
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| They started to think that they should be the ones solving the nations social and economic problems. |
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| What were President Taft's views on tariffs? |
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| President Taft believed that high tariffs limited competition so he opposed them. |
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| What led to the break between Roosevelt and President Taft? |
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| Taft brought up an antitrust suit against U.S. Steel, and Roosevelt was mad because he didn't agree. |
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| How did Roosevelt's and Wilson's views of trusts differ? |
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| Wilson believed that trusts were "required monoplies" and that requlating them gave the government a lot of power. Roosevelt liked them, he wanted big business and that trusts were a postive force on the economy. |
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| Why did President Wilson support the Federal Reserve system? |
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| He set up the Federal Reserve Act to give confidence in the bank and it would provide a safety net for the smaller banks or they would go bankrupt. |
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| What program did President Wilson support to help farmers? |
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| The Federal Farm Loan Act let farmers barrow loans for more time. |
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| What group of people failed to benefit from Progressive reforms? |
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| What Conflicts did Taft run into with Progressives? |
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Taft supported the Payne-Aldrich Tariff,
He backed speaker of the house, Joseph G. Cannon
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| What Progressive Reforms regulated the economy? |
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-The Income Tax
- The Federal Reserve Act
- The Underwood Tariff
- The Federal Trade Comission |
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| What did Progressives believe caused many social problems? |
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| Industrialism and Urbanization |
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