Unit 5 Test
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| 649463992 | Progressivism | A largely middle-class movement that aimed to use the power of government to correct the economic and social problems of industrialism | |
| 649463993 | Mudrakers | Popular journalists who used publicity to expose corruption and attack abuses of power in business and government | |
| 649463994 | Initiative | Progressive proposal to allow voters to bypass state legislatures and propose legislation themselves | |
| 649463995 | Recall | Progressive device that would enable voters to remove corrupt or ineffective officials from office | |
| 649463996 | Square Deal | Roosevelt's policy of having the federal government promote the public interest by dealing evenhandedly with both labor and business | |
| 649463997 | Hepburn Act of 1906 | Gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the ability to set the maximum railroad rates to stop bribes (free passes)/rebates | |
| 649463998 | Triangle Shirtwaist Company | Disastrous industrial fire of 1911 that spurred workmen's compensation laws and some state regulation of wages and hours in New York Underscored urban workers' news for government protection | |
| 649463999 | The Jungle | Upton Sinclair's novel that inspired pro consumer federal laws regulating meat,food and drugs. It was originally created to expose the social and immigrant treatment of the time | |
| 649464000 | Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) | Powerful women's reform organization led by Frances Willard | |
| 649464001 | Roosevelt Panic | Brief but sharp economic downturn of 1907, blamed by conservatives on the supposedly dangerous president. Roosevelt believed that it was staged by Wall Street to hurt Roosevelt and the Republican party before the election of 1908 | |
| 649464002 | Dollar Diplomacy | Generally unsuccessful Taft foreign policy in which government attempted to encourage overseas business ventures | |
| 649464003 | US Steel Corporation | Powerful corporation broken up by a Taft-initiated antitrust suit in 1911 | |
| 649464004 | Jacob Riis | Author of How the Other Half Lives, a shocking description of the New York slums | |
| 649464005 | Lincoln Steffens | Early mud raker who exposed the political corruption in many American cities | |
| 649464006 | Ida Tarbell | Leading mud raking journalist whose articles documented the Standard Oil Company's abuse of power | |
| 649464007 | 17th Amendement | Progressive measure that required US Senators to be elected directly by the people rather than by state legislatures | |
| 649464008 | Robert La Follette | The most influential of the state-level governors and a president aspirant in 1912 | |
| 649464009 | Anthracite Coal Strike | Dangerous labor conflict resolved by Rooselveltian negotiation and threats against business people | |
| 649464010 | Meat inspection Act of 1906 | The preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to Federal inspection (from corral to can). It aimed to curb the practices of those exposed in The Jungle | |
| 649464011 | Muller vs Oregon | Case that upheld protective legislation on the grounds of women's supposed physical weakness - limited women's access to jobs, which was the opposite of their goal of trying to get better wages and shorter work hours | |
| 649464012 | William Howard Taft | Politically inept inheritor of the Roosevelt legacy who ended up allied to the reactionary Republican "Old Guard" | |
| 649464013 | Lochner vs New York | Supreme court ruling that overturned a progressive law mandating a ten-hour workday | |
| 649464014 | Gifford Pinchot | Proconservation federal official whose dismissal by Taft angered Roosevelt progressives | |
| 649464015 | Old-time Populists, mud raking journalists, social-gospel ministers, and European socialist immigrants provided.. | The pioneering forces who laid the foundations for the Progressive movement | |
| 649464016 | Progressive concern about political corruption led to... | Reforms like the initiative, referendum, and direct election of senators | |
| 649464017 | Governors like Robert La Follette led... | The way in using universities and regulatory agencies to pursue progressive goals | |
| 649464018 | Roosevelt's threat to seize the anthracite coal mines forced... | A compromise settlement of a strike that threatened the nation's well-being | |
| 649464019 | Settlement Houses and women's clubs served... | As the launching pad for widespread female involvement in progressive reforms | |
| 649464020 | Upton Sinclair's The Jungle... | Outraged consumers and led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Acts | |
| 649464021 | Roosevelt's personal interest in conservation ended... | The era of uncontrolled exploitation of nature and involved the federal government in preserving natural resources | |
| 649464022 | Taft's political mishandling of tariff and conservation policies... | Incensed pro-Roosevelt progressives and increased their attacks on the Republican "Old Guard" | |
| 649464023 | Russia's and Japan's hostility to an American role in China made.. | Taft's Dollar Diplomacy policy a failure | |
| 649464024 | Roosevelt's feeling that he was cheated out of the Republican nomination by the Taft machine laid... | The basis for a third-party crusade in the election of 1912 | |
| 649464025 | Elkins Act of 1903 | Authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to impose large fines on railroads that offered rebates and also on the shippers who accepted the discounts | |
| 649464026 | Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 | Designed to prevent the adulteration and mislabeling of foods and pharmaceuticals | |
| 649464027 | Newlands Act of 1902 | Authorized Washington to collect money from the sale of public lands and use it to fund the development of irrigation systems in the west The difference between this act and the land acts in the past is that it was a benefit to the environment; past acts were merely for the expansion of Americans and for the paying off of debts with little regard for the environmental outcomes | |
| 649464028 | Aldrich-Vreeland Act of 1908 | Authorized national banks to issue emergency currency, backed by various kinds of collateral | |
| 649464029 | Payne-Aldrich Bill of 1909 | Raised tariffs - betrayed his platform and outraged the Republican party | |
| 649464030 | Postal Savings System of 1910 | The legislation aimed to get money out of hiding, attract the savings of immigrants accustomed to saving at Post Offices in their native countries, provide safe depositories for people who had lost confidence in banks, and furnish more convenient depositories for working people. | |
| 649464031 | Mann Act of 1911 | Prohibited white slaves and the trafficking of females for "immoral purposes" |
