Chapter 17 Section 3-5 review
Section 3
Term or Name
NAACP
The Jungle
Definition
This started the prominent African-American and white reformers
Roosevelt responded to this book by appointing a commission to investigate
the meatpacking industry
Square Deal
This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive
Conservation
Upton Sinclair
Meat Inspection Act
Sherman Antitrust Act
This was the principle that guided Roosevelt’s efforts to organize water
projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas.
This muckraking journalist shocked readers with his nauseating account of the
meatpacking industry’s conditions
This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meat-packers and
created the program of federal meat inspection still used today.
This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits.
Theodore Roosevelt
at 42 years old, he was the youngest president ever elected.
1902 Coal Miner’s Strike
This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations.
Pure Food and Drug Act
This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs and called for
truth in labeling.
Section 4
1. Gifford Pinchot was head of the US Forest Service under President Roosevelt
2. Woodrow Wilson supported the antitrust legislation, banking reform, and reduced tariffs under a
progressive platform.
3. Eugene V Debs ~ Socialist presidential candidate who failed to capture any electoral votes.
4. The progressive and conservative wings of the Republican Party began to fragment under Taft.
5. The Progressive Party became known as the Bull Moose Party.
6. President Taft angered progressive supporters by signing the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.
Section 5
Terms and Names
Civil Rights
Definitions
Woodrow Wilson appeared to support this issue during his campaign but during
his presidency, he did more to support those who opposed it.
Income tax
Woodrow Wilson
This was intended to provide revenue lost by the lowering of tariffs.
This person was a former governor of New Jersey who became president in 1912.
Underwood Tariff
Woman’s Suffrage
This substantially reduced import taxes for the first time since the Civil War.
This movement was given new strength by a growing number of collegeeducated women.
Federal Reserve Act
Carrie Chapman Catt
Clayton Antitrust
Act
This established the Federal Reserve System
This person was the president of NAWSA
This specified that labor unions and farm organizations not only had a right to
exist, but would also no longer be subject to antitrust laws.
Federal Reserve
System
Nineteenth
Amendment
Federal Trade
Commission
This is decentralized private banking system under government control
This granted women the right to vote
This agency was given the power to investigate unfair business practices and to
issue orders to “cease and desist.”