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What did TR call investigative reporters? |
Muckrakers |
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What was their goal? |
To expose inequality and corruption |
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Who is considered the most progressive president? |
TR |
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What scientific managment expert conducted experiments dealing with efficiency? |
Federick Taylor |
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Who used the assembly line for mass production? |
Henry Ford |
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What phrase means to break up monopolies? |
Trustbusting |
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What was TR's son named that went to africa? |
Kermit |
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Name one famous muckraker |
Jacob Riis (how the other half lives), Henry Demarest Lloyd (the atlantic monthly), ida tarbell (the history of standard oil) |
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What was the secret ballot known as? |
The Austrailan ballot |
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What groups voted less because of the Austrailian ballot? |
americans who knew little to no english |
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Where did TR go after his wife's death? |
The badlands |
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What is it called when people lose their right to vote? |
Disenfranchise |
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What progressive reform allows each state to vote for their presidential nominee? |
The primary system |
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What progressive governor first implennted the primary system? |
Robert La Follette |
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What state was Follette from? |
Wisconsin |
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What was Wisconsin known as? |
The "laboratory of democracy" |
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What amendment allows voters to pick their senators? |
17th |
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What process allowes citizens to develop a law and have the state lawmakers vote on it? |
An initiative |
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What process allows citizens to vote on a bill that was developed by the lawmakers? |
A referendum |
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What enables citizens to vote an elected official out of office? |
A recall |
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Who create the american birth control leauge? |
Margaret Sanger |
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What did the American Birth Control Leauge eventually become? |
Planned Parenthood |
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Who was the famous progessive educational reformer? |
John Dewey |
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What change did TR implement regarding buisness and labor that previous presidents did not? |
While past presidents always sided w buisness over labor, TR tried ti mediate between the two sides |
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What did TR's mediation between buisness and labor become know as? |
TR's square deal |
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What strike occured in 1902 that Tr mediated? |
The anthracite coal strike |
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What railroad monopoly did TR break up? |
The Northern Securities Company |
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Did TR break up all monopolies? |
no - he only wanted to break up the bad trusts |
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What book about immigrants did alice read and give to TR? |
The jungle |
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Who wrote the jungle? |
Upton Sinclair |
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What did this book lead congress to pass? |
The pure food and drug act, and the meat inspection act (consumer protection) |
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What fire in NY killed 146 factory workers? |
Triangle shirtwaist factory |
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Why us TR considered a conservation president? |
He has congress set aside millions of acres of land for parks, refuges, and reserves |
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What conservationist influenced TR? |
John Muir |
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What conservation organization did muir create? |
The sierra club |
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Who did Taft defeat in 1908 |
william jennings byran (3rd defeat 🤧) |
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What monopoly did Taft break up that TR did not want broken up? |
US Steel |
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Whose company was this? |
J.P. Morgan |
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What amendment creat prohibition? |
18th |
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What amendment gave women the right to vote |
19th |
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What amendment creat income tax? |
16 |
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Name one of the progressive complaints against Taft |
• Taft signed on the payne-aldrich tariff (high tariffs were passed dispite him promising low tariffs). • Taft fired cheif forester gifford pinchot ( a favorite of progressives) when he critized Taft's secretary if the interior Ballinger for opening land in Alaska for private development. • Taft did not support progressives' efforts to reduce the powers of congressman Joe Cannon |
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What was TR's new party called in 1912 |
Progressive party - or the bull moose party |
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Who ran as a socialist? |
Eugene Debs (third defeat) |
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What democrat ran |
Woodrow Wilson |
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Why did Wilson win the election of 1912? |
The republican party was split between Taft and TR |
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What happened to TR in milwaukee on a campaign stop? |
He was shot, but he still gave his 8 minute speech |
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Who did TR invite to the white house causing controversy |
Booker T. Washington |
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Which progressive president was opposed to civil rights? |
Woodrow Wilson |
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What did congress pass ti make up for the lost money due ti lower tariffs? |
A graduated income tax (from 1% to 7%) 16th amendment |
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What did wilson encourage congress to pass to stregthen the sherman antitrust act? |
The Clayton antitrust act (1914) |
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What did congress also pass to investigate unfair tade practices? |
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) |
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What did congress pass to protect children? |
Child labor act (keating-owens act of 1916) |
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What suprenem court decision overturned Keating-Owens? |
Hammer v. Dagenhart |
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Name two civil rights movements led by WEB DuBois |
Niagara Movement, NAACP (national association for the advancement of colored people) |
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What feminist brije away from NAWSA (national american women suffrage association) to create a more militant organization? |
Alice Paul |
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What was Alice paul's organization called? |
The NWP (Nationals Womens Party) |
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What strategy did NWP use to gain attention for womens suffrage? |
They pucketed un front of the white house |
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What were immigrants called that came to us just to make money and then return home? |
Birds of Passage |
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Who was the first jewish supreme court judge? |
Louis Brandeis |
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What job was Taft appointed to after he serced as president? |
Cheif justice of the supreme court (only president to do so) |
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What act allowed the ICC to set railroad rates (increased government control) |
The Hepburn Act |
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What did progessives pass that angered big buisnesses? |
The Underwood tariff of 1913 - lowered taxes |
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What did wilson ecourage congress to create to oversee banking/monetary in the united states? |
The federal reserve |
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Desribe muller v. Oregon |
Jusitified gender discrimination in the work place (women could be paid less than men) |
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What was the first blockbuster movie in us history? |
The Birth of a Nation - glorifed the KKK |
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What was TR's sisters name? |
Bamie |
