HIST 2020 Chapter 21 – Flashcards
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According to Theodore Roosevelt, the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901
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the government had power to control the trusts
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What was the outcome of the strike by 147,000 anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania in 1902
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A reduction in hours worked and an increase in wages
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Taken together, what did President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrate about the US government?
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Roosevelt's administration would act independently from big business
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The Hepburn Act 1906 marked the first time that
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a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and to set prices
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The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for
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writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing
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What did J.P Morgan receive in return for his actions in the panic of 1907
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the tacit approval of President Roosevelt for US Steels acquisition of Tennessee Coal and Iron
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What did President Roosevelt believe was the best way to deal with trusts in the first decade of the 20th century?
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allow them to continue but with federal government regulation
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Robert La Follette, a critic of the Roosevelt administration believed the progressive president's greatest work was in
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the conservation of natural resources
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How did President Roosevelt impact land conservation during his administration
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He more than quadrupled the acreage of government reserves
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Which of the following statements describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early 20th century
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Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use
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Which of the following beliefs formed the basis for Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy?
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civilized nations should police the world and hold less-civilized nations in line
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To obtain the Panama isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States
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backed up an uprising in Panama arranged by NY investors
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What was president Roosevelt's primary reason for supporting a canal that would connect the Caribbean and the Pacific?
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National defense
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The Roosevelt's Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere
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set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere
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President Roosevelt inherited the Open Door Policy, which was designed to
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Ensure American commercial entry into China
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President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Price in 1906 for his role in
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the Russo-Japanese war
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Which of the following describes a significant difference between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt's presidency?
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Taft believed it was up to the courts, not the president to arbitrate social issue
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What happened to progressive reform after democrats swept the congressional election of 1910?
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It continued in areas such as mine a railroad safety
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Which of the following describes President Taft's dollar diplomacy in the Caribbean?
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Dollar diplomacy set commercial rather in the region by hiring nationals and paying them US dollars
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What factor explained Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election?
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Theodore Roosevelt entered the race as a third party candidate (bull moose) and split the Republican vote
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Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?
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It incorporated his belief in federal planning and the regulation of big business
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To compensate for the revenue that would be lost as a result of the new Underwood tariff, in 1913, the House of Representatives passed
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the federal income tax
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Which of the following statements describe the Federal reserve act of 1913?
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it was the most significant piece of domestic legislation in Wilson's presidency
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What did President Wilson hope to accomplish by supporting the Clayton Act of 1914?
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the promotion of legislation that would reinstitute competition among businesses without regulation
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Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor's demand for an end to injunctions during his first terms as president because he
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opposed affording special privileges to any group
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Why did President Wilson champion the Keating-Owen child labor law, an eight hour workday for railroad workers, and other social reforms in 1916?
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He wanted to with support and votes in the West and Midwest
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What did Eugene V Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats
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Debs urged men and women to liberate them selves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery
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Margaret Sanger promoted birth control issues in the 1910's because she
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believed that it would usefully alter social and political power relationships
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What was the response to Margaret Sanger's first efforts to launch a movement for birth control in 1915
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She was faced with the prospect of arrest for distributing obscene information
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The efforts of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in
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woman suffrage
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Beginning in the 1890's, progressive southerners sought to reform the electoral system in the South by
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disenfranchising black voters
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The Progressive's Jim Crow Laws in the south were designed to
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legalize and expand racial segregation in public facilities
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What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T Washington and WEB du Bois during the progressive period?
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Washington focused on education and economic progress while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership
