Chapter 20 Review Quiz – Flashcards

President Theodore Roosevelt attempts to arbitrate the coal strike; the Justice Department breaks up the Northern Securities Company.

Hull- House, a settlement house, opens in Chicago

Congress passes the Elkins Act

Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; Upon Sinclair's The Jungle is published

The Supreme Court issues the Muller. Oregon decision

Congress passes the Mann- Elkins Act

William Taft is inaugurated president.

congress passes the Federal Reserve Act

Louis Brandeis is nominated to fill a seat on the Supreme Court

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire occurs

Nineteenth Amendment, guaranteeing women's suffrage is ratified

Congress passes the Clayton Anti- Trust Act

Alice Paul was arrested for opening the first birth control center in the United States

All of the following are correct about the Women's Christian Temperance Union except: a) largest women's group in the nation by 1900 b) was led by Ida M. Tarbell c) it was lobbied for an end to child labor and for eight- hour day d) wanted to close saloons.

Among the reasons why the 1912 election is significant is that

Around 1916 Wilson renewed his support for progressive reforms because

As a white southerner, Woodrow Wilson was especially sensitive to the rights and needs of black Americans

As president, Theodore Roosevelt preferred achieving reform through congressional action

Before 1917 states adopting universal women's suffrage were in the

by the end of the nineteenth century, few women worked outside of the home

During the Progressive Era, the US Supreme Court

in 1912 the progressive party nominated Robert M La Follette for president

In the case against the Northern Securities Company, Theodore Roosevelt sought to

One characteristic of Wilson's progressivism was

One of the most important progressive reforms that democratized government was the direct primary

Religion either Christianity or Judaism was a source of energy for progressive reformers

Settlement houses suck as a Hull House in Chicago were community centers designed to help the poor in the urban slums

The 1912 election was significant because it brought southerners back into influential positions in national affairs

The Clayton Anti- Trust Act attempted to regulate trusts by

the Federal Reserve system came into existence during President Taft's administration

The Meat Inspection Act and the Hepburn Act are examples of the federal action to

the seventeenth amendment

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire spurred interest in laws to

The Underwood-Simmons Tariff of 1913 sought to lower consumer prices and restore competition by lowering import duties

the Women's Christian Temperance Union emerged in part from the concern felt by Protestant church women about the influence of alcohol had on deocracy

the impulse for reform in the Progressive Era began

The progressives emphasis on efficiency drew on the ideas of

The role of city manager was devised in an attempt to make local government more democratic

Theodore Roosevelt created Yellowstone National Park in 1907

To conserve the nation's natural resources, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to

Under President Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot directed programs related to the

Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle which helped bring about regulation of the meatpacking industry