Chapter 10 Study Guide
1. What were the major parts for Woodrow Wilson’s 1912 platform? (what did he promise
to do)
2. What did TR’s New Nationalism hope to do?
3. Why were the commissioners who served in Galveston, Texas chosen? (What were their
skills)
4. What were some of Taft’s main legislative accomplishments?
5. What was the main electoral reform included in the Wisconsin Idea?
6. What did the Clayton Antitrust Act do?
7. What is the name of the electoral reform that allows voters to kick some one out of
office before their term expires?
8. Who elected Senators before the 17th Amendment was passed?
9. What did the Underwood Tariff Act do?
10. What process did the National Woman’s Party use to get the right to vote?
11. What was the primary reason the Department of Labor was established?
12. What right did Carrie Chapman Catt earn while at college?
13. What secretary of the interior authorized the sale of coal lands in Alaska?
14. What allows citizens, with enough votes, to put items on the ballot?
15. What amendment allows citizens to directly elect their senators?
16. Who proposed the New Freedom platform in the 1912 election?
17. What governor passed reforms that were copied by many other states?
18. Who founded the Bull Moose Party?
19. What is arbitration?
20. Who won the 1900 presidential election?
21. Was the Secretary of War before he was the President?
22. Who authorized the use of funds from the sale of public lands for reclamation?
23. Who was the first person to use the term “conservation” in connection with saving the
environment?
24. Author of “The Shame of the Cities”
25. Did progressives Taft and Wilson want to end segregation?
26. What does the Pure Food and Drug Act require manufacturers to do?
27. Was the secret ballot a progressive reform?
28. What was the name of the novel and who wrote it that detailed unsanitary conditions in
meatpacking plants?
29. What is an initiative?
30. Did Robert La Follette get along with RR and lumber interests?
31. Who were some of the founding members of the NAWSA?
32. Why did the United Mine Workers go on strike? (2 main reasons)
33. What two consumer protection laws were passed in 1906?
34. How did TR become president in 1901?
35. Why was the 1902 coal miner’s strike of national importance?
36. Why are political machines undemocratic?
37. What did TR mean by a “Square Deal”?
38. How did Alice Paul try and win women the right to vote? (discuss her new strategy and
tactics)
39. Why did Wilson win the 1912 election?