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29 Cards in this Set
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Who were the Progressive Presidents?
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Theodore Roosevelt - R
William Taft - R Woodrow Wilson - D |
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How did Theodore Roosevelt become president?
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McKinley assassinated
At 42 (Rep) youngest president More active role in economic, society, politics |
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What did T Roosevelt promise between business and labor which used the government as a tool to protect people from big business?
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"Square Deal"
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What event happened when a coal strike threatened America in 1902 and T Roosevelt called leaders and mine owners for mediation and threatened federal takover when mine owners refused to attend?
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Anthracite Coal strike of 1902
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What agreement was reached in the Anthracite coal strike of 1902?
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10% wage increase
9 hour work day |
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What Supreme Court case in 1895 reduced the power of the federal government to break up monopolies using the Sherman Antitrust Act?
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US v Knight & Co
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What Supreme Court case in 1904 upheld T Roosevelt's use of the Sherman Anittrust Act to break up a railroad monopoly?
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Northern Securities v US
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Who was the first President to use the Sherman Antitrust Act and made a distinction between :"good trusts" and "bad trusts"?
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Theodore Roosevelt
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What kind of trust (good or bad) harmned consumers by raising prices and stifling competition?
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Bad
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What kind of trusts (good or bad) dominated the market through efficiency and low prices?
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Good
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What federal organization oversaw the railroad industry?
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Interstate Commerce Commision
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What act in 1903 strengthened the regulatory power of the ICC?
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Mann Elkins Act
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What act in 1906 allowed the ICC to fix railroad rates?
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The Hepburn Act
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What 2 laws motivated by Upton Sinclair's The Jungle did T Roosevelt enact to protect consumers?
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Pure Food and Drug Act
Meat Inspection Act |
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What 3 things did T Roosevelt do for conservation?
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1) Protect natural resources
2) 150 million acres as national reserve 3) Newlands Reclamation Act (money for irrigation in west) |
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What amendment to the Constitution authorized the US government to collect income taxes?
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16th Amendment
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Who was the bigger trust-buster - T Roosevelt of Taft?
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Taft
- by almost 2 times |
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What Act gave the ICC power to suspend new railroad rates and oversee telephone, telegraph, and cable companines?
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Man-Elkins Act, 1910
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Why were Republican progressives unhappy with Taft?
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1) Payne-Aldrich Tariff (promised lower tariff but raised them)
2) Didn't support reducing power of conservative speaker of house 3) Supported Conservative candidates in 1910 election |
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In election of 1912 who won the Republican nomination for President - Taft or T Roosevelt?
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Taft
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What Republican left the party in the election of 1912 and formed a new party and what was it called?
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T Roosevelt
The Progressive Party/ Bull Moose Party |
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Who were the 4 presidential candidates in 1912 and from what parties?
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Taft - Republican
T Roosevelt - Progressive/Bull Moose W Wilson - Democrat Debs - Socialist Party |
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Who won election of 1912?
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Wilson - 45% polular vote and 435 electoral votes (1st Domcrat since Civil War)
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What was the name of T Rooevelts platform in 1912 that advocated a strong central government, women's suffrage, social welfare, and eliminating "bad trausts"?
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New Nationalism
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What platform in 1912 limited big business, corrupt government, and restored competition by eliminating trusts?
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New Freedom 9 Wilson)
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What policy of W Wilson attacked tariff's, banking, and trusts and wanted to restore competition?
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New Freeedom
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What law under Wilson lowered tariffs on imports to lower prices to consumers and made up for it by raising the income tax?
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Underwood Tariff of 1913
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Which is true about bank reform under Wilson?
a) Banks served teh poor b) Wilson accepted Republicans private national bank c) National banking system with 12 districts supervised by the federal reserve board |
c) National banking system with 12 districts supervised by the federal reserve board
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What technologies changed life during Progressive Era?
a) Wright brothers' airplane b) Edison's movie camera c) Coca Cola d) Henry Ford's assembly line e) All of the above |
e) All of the above
Also, electricity, mail order catalogs, skyscrapers |
