Pageant Chapter 29

Front 1

How many immigrants came to the United States between 1900 and 1917?

Back 1

About 17 million

Front 2

What policy did progressives want to stop because they felt that the "let-alone" policy concerning big business was hurting American people?

Back 2

Laissez-faire

Front 3

Which presidential style of government did the progressives say was not complex enough to handle the new industrial age?

Back 3

Jacksonian

Front 4

What form of monopoly did many of the Democrats rail against saying that it was a stigma of corruption and wrongdoing in America?

Back 4

The Northern Securities Company

Front 5

Who was the author of the book Wealth Against Commonwealth, which tried to uncover the corruption in the Standard Oil Company?

Back 5

Henry Damarest Lloyd

Front 6

What was meant by the term "conspicuous consumption"?

Back 6

Buying of luxurious things for one's own good

Front 7

What book did Jacob A. Riis publish in 1890 which showed photographs and told stories about the dirt, disease, vice and misery of the rat-gnawed human rookeries known as New York slums? (muckraking journalist)

Back 7

"How the Other Half Lives"

Front 8

What Old World movement did many of the writers of the late 19th and early 20th Century turn towards to base their demand for better living conditions in the inner cities?

Back 8

Progressivism

Front 9

Which president is responsible for coining the term "muckrakers"?

Back 9

Theodore Roosevelt

Front 10

What was meant by the term muckraking journalism?

Back 10

Writing lies about the public

Front 11

Which woman was greatly responsible for the break of the Standard Oil Company because of her muckraking exposé?

Back 11

Ida M. Tarbell

Front 12

What was the name of the exposé in #11?

Back 12

"The History of the Standard Oil Company"

Front 13

What amendment to the Constitution will be added to create the direct election of US Senators in 1913 particularly because of the muckraking journalism?

Back 13

The 17th Amendment

Front 14

What blight did Ray Stannard Baker's book Following the Color Line (1908) expose?

Back 14

The racial divide in America

Front 15

What was Theodore Roosevelt's problem with the muckraking journalists?

Back 15

Writing about things, but not taking action

Front 16

What late-nineteenth century social movement proposed the direct election of US Senators?

Back 16

Increase public participation in government, Progressive Movement

Front 17

What other political reforms, besides the creation of the 17th Amendment will the Progressives be responsible for creating? Hint: all came from the Populists

Back 17

Initiative, Referendum, Recall

Front 18

This progressive political reforms allowed the people to directly propose legislation themselves, thus bypassing the boss-brought state legislatures.

Back 18

Initiative

Front 19

This progressive political reform would place laws on the ballot for final approval by the people.

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Referendum

Front 20

This progressive political reform would enable voters to remove faithless elected officials, particularly those who had been bribed by bosses or lobbyists.

Back 20

Recall

Front 21

This type of progressive system was instituted by many cities around the country designed to take politics out of municipal administration.

Back 21

The Progressive inspired city manager system of government.

Front 22

What women's activism groups helped to expose women to the problems plaguing America's cities, including poverty, political corruption, and intolerable working and living conditions?

Back 22

Settlement House Movement

Front 23

What area of society did the Nineteenth-century notion of "separate spheres" drive women to help during the Progressive Era?

Back 23

Moral and Maternal Issues

Front 24

Why was the Women's Peace Party formed in 1915 by Jane Addams?

Back 24

Response to World War 1

Front 25

What was the justification of Louis Brandeis's position in the SCOTUS decision in Mueller v. Oregon?

Back 25

Upheld the working hours of women and sex discrimination

Front 26

What was the Brandeis Brief in the Mueller v Oregon case?

Back 26

Brandeis Brief is to rely more on scientific information and social science that on legal citations.

Front 27

How much was the fine that Muller refused to pay in the State of Oregon, when he was fined for asking an employee to remain after hours to do an extra load of laundry?

Back 27

$10

Front 28

What precedent was established in the SCOTUS case Lochner v. New York (3 years prior to Mueller v Oregon)?

Back 28

Limiting the hours that a baker could work, and the terms of employment

Front 29

This tragedy will result in the death of 146 young immigrant women in New York City when the doors of their textile factory will be locked and a fire breaks out (1911).

Back 29

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Factory Fire

Front 30

What laws will come about because of the tragedy described in #29?

Back 30

Safety Regulations for all work establishments

Front 31

Who is the founder of the WCTU?

Back 31

Frances Willard; Annie Wittenmyer

Front 32

What are "dry" laws?

Back 32

Prohibits the selling or manufacturing of alcohol

Front 33

Which amendment will be passed in 1919 causing prohibition?

Back 33

18th Amendment

Front 34

What is the name of the radical female in the temperance movement that would enter bars with a axe and would begin destroying property?

Back 34

Carrie Nation

Front 35

What was the name of Theodore Roosevelt's economic plan for the United States?

Back 35

The Square Deal

Front 36

What were the three C's of the program in #34?

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Conservation of Natural Resources, Control of Corporations, Consumer Protection

Front 37

How did Theodore Roosevelt help improve working conditions for coal miners?

Back 37

Pay Increase, A change in hours worked

Front 38

What compromise decision was reached between Roosevelt and coal mine owners?

Back 38

Work day reduced, better pay

Front 39

What was the name of the coal strike which Theodore Roosevelt will solve?

Back 39

Anthracite Coal Strike

Front 40

What newly created cabinet position will Roosevelt push Congress to create in order to probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce?

Back 40

Department of Commerce and Labor

Front 41

This Act will be created in 1903 to help curb the rebates given by the railroads to many companies for shipping a lot of goods with them?

Back 41

Elkins Act

Front 42

Why was the Hepburn Act of 1906 more effective than the Act in #40?

Back 42

Because it had greater regulations of railroads, including maximum freight rates for railroads.

Front 43

This will be the first major Trust "busted" by the Roosevelt Administration?

Back 43

Trust bust on the Northern Securities Company

Front 44

What food related trusts will be declared unconstitutional by the justice system?

Back 44

Beef Trust

Front 45

Which US President actually "busted" more trusts than TR?

Back 45

William Howard Taft

Front 46

This muckraking journalist will expose the meatpacking industry in his book The Jungle?

Back 46

Upton Sinclair

Front 47

What was the cynical jingle of the time concerning the meatpacking industry?

Back 47

mary had a little lamb, and when she saw it sicken, she shipped it off to packing town, and now its labeled chicken

Front 48

What acts will be passed because of the publication of the book The Jungle?

Back 48

Pure Food and Drug Act; Meat Inspection Act

Front 49

This man was the father of the Sierra Club which felt that all non-developed land should remain that way?

Back 49

John Muir

Front 50

What was the name of the man who is known as the father of the modern Forest Service?

Back 50

Gifford Pinchot

Front 51

What was the name of Pinchot's policy concerning the Forest?

Back 51

Forrest Policy

Front 52

What caused the "Panic of 1907"?

Back 52

The Stock Exchange fell almost 50%

Front 53

What type of solution will come, post-Roosevelt administration which will solve our currency woes until the present?

Back 53

The New Deal

Front 54

Who will be the handpicked Republican candidate by Theodore Roosevelt which ran in the election of 1908?

Back 54

William Howard Taft

Front 55

What was the White House called by the press during TR's administration?

Back 55

The Roosevelt Renovation

Front 56

What was the term used to describe the use of US financial backing of Latin American countries to prevent European intervention?

Back 56

Dollar Diplomacy

Front 57

What did Taft's Secretary of the Interior, Richard Ballinger do which upset Gifford Pinchot?

Back 57

Sold Alaska land, with lots of coal, to Seattle businessmen, they in turn sold it to a consortium of New York bankers.

Front 58

What did Theodore Roosevelt do in 1912 which will eventually lead to Woodrow Wilson becoming president?

Back 58

Creating the Progressive Party

Front 59

Place the following in Chronological Order:

Back 59

...

Front 60

Northern Securities case, Pure Food and Drug Act, Muller v. Oregon, Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire, Direct Election of Senators, Women's Suffrage Amendment

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1904 Northern Securities case 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act 1908 Muller v. Oregon 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire 1913 Direct Election of Senators 1920 Women's Suffrage Amendment