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| What was the population of America in the early 1900s? |
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| What was the key concept of the Progressive Movement? |
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| The demise of monopolies, trusts and corporation inefficiency. |
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| What two previous parties were credited with being the roots of the Progressive Movement? |
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The Greenback Labor Party(1870s&80s)
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The Populist Party (1890s) |
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| Who wrote Wealth Against Common-Wealth? |
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| Who wrote Theory of the Leisure Class? |
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| What were the Muckrakers? |
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| The group that exposed trusts. Primarily Jacob Riis and Theodore Dreiser |
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| Who wrote How the Other Half Lives? |
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| What two important women joined the Progressive fight? |
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| Lillian Wald and Jane Addams |
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| What started the attacks(accusations, NOT battles) on trusts and monopolies |
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| A group of magazines began flinging dirt in 1902. (Cosmopolitan, Collier's and Everybody's) |
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| Who launched the series of articles called "The Shame of Cities" |
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| Who launched an expose against standard oil? |
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| Who said that 75/90 US Senators did not represent the people? |
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| Who wrote Following the Color Line |
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| Ray Stannard Baker, it was about the illiteracy of black people. |
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| Who wrote The Bitter Cry of the Children? |
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| John Spargo wrote it about child labor. |
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| Who exposed frauds that sold "potent patent medicine"? |
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| What was the progressive movement mainly? (Who made it up) |
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| What was the "Progressive Initiative" |
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| Voters directly proposing legislation |
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| What was the "Progressive Referendum" |
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| People could vote on laws that affected them |
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| What was the "Progressive Recall" |
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| To remove bad officials from office |
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| What did the 17th Amendment do? |
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| Called for direct election of Senators. |
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| What system did Galveston, TX use to manage urban affairs of the city? |
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| The City-Manager System, which established a committee of leaders |
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| What governor of Wisconsin tried to get control of the trust and give power back to the people? |
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| What Governor of New York investigated malpractices of Gas and Insurance companies? |
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| What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911? |
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| A fire that killed 146 workers |
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| What did the Muller vs Oregon case establish? |
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| Louis D Brandeis persuaded the Court to accept laws that protected women workers. |
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| What did the Lochner vs New York case establish? |
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| It set a 10 hour work day for bakers |
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| What did the Woman's Christian Temperance Organization do? |
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| Pushed for the ban of alcohol |
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| What did the 18th amendment do? |
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| What were the three c's of the square deal? |
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Control of Corporations
Consumer Protection
Conservation of Resources. |
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| What happened in a Pennsylvania coal mine in 1902? |
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| A strike in which 140,00 workers wanted a pay increase. |
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| What did the Department of Commerce and Labor do? |
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Allowed the investigation of business.
Useful for trust busting. |
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| What did the Elkins Act do? |
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| Fined railroads that give rebates to shippers that accept them |
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| What did the Hepburn Act do? |
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| Restricted free passes on Railroads |
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| What did the Meat Inspection act do? |
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| Allowed for federal inspection of meat from "corral to can" |
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| What did the Pure food and Drug Act do? |
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| Tried to prevent adulteration and mislabeling of food. |
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| Who wrote The Jungle? What was it about? |
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| Upton SinClair wrote it about the meat packing industry |
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| What was attempted by the Desert Land Act |
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| Conservation of Natural Resources |
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| What was a more successful version of the Desert Land Act? |
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| What was the Division of Forestry? |
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| Helped initiate massive conservation projects |
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| What did the Newlands Act of 1902 do? |
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| Initiated irrigation projects for western states |
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| Who wrote the Call of the Wild? |
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| What was the Roosevelt Panic of 1907? |
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| When TR decide not to run for re-election |
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| Who did TR pick as his successor? |
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| What was the Aldrich-Vreeland Act do? |
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| Authorized National banks to issue emergency currency |
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| What was the surprise in the 1908 election? |
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| Socialist Eugene Debs got an unprecedented 420,793 votes. |
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| Who won the 1908 election? |
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| What was the idea of dollar diplomacy? |
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| When Taft encouraged investors to invest in foreign business. |
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| How many trusts did Taft bring suit in his term? |
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| 90 (about double what TR did) |
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| What did Taft do in 1911? |
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| He dissolved the standard oil company. |
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| What did the Payne-Aldrich Bill do? |
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| It was originally to lower a tariff, but changes caused it to be an embarrassing failure. |
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| What two things caused the Split of the Republican party? |
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| Tariff and Conservation of Lands |
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| What was the Ballinger-Pinchot Quarrel? |
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| Secretary of Interior Ballinger opened public lands and was criticized by Pinchot |
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| What happened in the election of 1912? |
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| TR decides to run again and runs against Taft. |
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