1302 AMERICA Study Guide Ch. 24
Lone Star College
Mrs. Laura Whisler
TRUE / FALSE:
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Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business. 941
Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name. 942-3
William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president. 962
Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history. 966
Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies. 972
6. The phrase “Square Deal” is associated with president ______________________________ 950
7. This president was a minister’s son from the South _________________________________ 967
8. The author of The Shame of the Cities was _______________________________________ 943
9. The subject of Wealth against Commonwealth was:________________________________ 943
10. _______________________________________ wrote The Jungle.
11. _______________________________________ was the Socialist party presidential candidate.
12. What did the National Child Labor Committee push for? 948
13. What was the 17th Amendment about? 966
14. What book and author described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry? 955
15. What was President Roosevelt’s response to the coal strike? 951
16. What was Roosevelt’s stance on the issue of conservation and natural resources? 959
17. What was President Taft’s stance on the tariff? 962
18. What was President Taft’s stance on conservation and natural resources? 966
19. What did the Hepburn Act of 1906 do? 955
20. In the presidential election of 1912 what were the parties, candidates, and outcome? 969
21. What did the Underwood-Simmons Tariff state and did the president back it? 973
22. What was the Clayton Anti-Trust Act? 975
23. What did the Federal Reserve Act do? 974
24. What was the muckrakers primary objective? 942
25. The Progressives supported the following measures. Define them. P. 944
Initiative
Referendum
Party Primary
Popular election of Senators
26. Who was Gifford Pinchot? 958
27. What did Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom platform stand for? 970
28. Wilson’s secretary of state was ___________________________________________ 972
29. What was the WCTU – Women’s Christian Temperance Union? 947
30. In 1917 which amendment to the Constitution became the prohibition amendment? 949
31. Jane Addams was involved with what? 949
32. ________________________________Company refused to turn over its records to the
government, leading to a suit and the breakup of the company in 1911. 954
33. _______________________________ became chief justice of the Supreme Court in 1921. 962