Multiple Choice Questions

A naturalist and conservationist. Founded the Sierra Club.
  • john muir
  • colonel edward house
  • woodrow wilson
  • louis brandeis
Name of TD's programs of reform. Focused on busting trusts, gov't regulation of big biz, fair chance for labor, and environmental conservation. everyone equal!
  • national reclamation act
  • elkin's act
  • hepburn railroad regulation act
  • square deal
Signed by Taft in March of 1909 in contrast to campaign promises. Was supposed to lower tariff rates but Senator Nelson N. Aldrich of Rhode Island put revisions that raised tariffs. This split the Repulican party into progressives (lower tariff) and conservatives (high tariff).
  • colonel edward house
  • payne-aldrich tariff
  • portsmouth conference
  • george perkins marsh
the policy of granting equal trade opportunities to all countries
  • open door
  • dollar diplomacy
  • portsmouth conference
  • john muir
Theodore Roosevelt's program in his campaign for the presidency in 1912, the New Nationalism called for a national approach to the country's affairs and a strong president to deal with them. It also called for efficiency in government and society; it urged protection of children, women, and workers; accepted "good" trusts; and exalted the expert and the executive. Additionally, it encouraged large concentrations of capital and labor.
  • woodrow wilson
  • New Nationalism
  • panama canal
  • louis brandeis
(TR) , negotiations with Colombia, six mile strip of land in Panama, $10 million, US could dig canal without British involvement
  • clayton antitrust act
  • federal reserve act
  • hay-pauncefote treaty
  • national reclamation act
Passed in 1913, this amendment to the Constitution calls for the direct election of senators by the voters instead of their election by state legislatures.
  • 17th amendment
  • square deal
  • federal trade commission act
  • 16th amendment
governor from wisconsin who avidly opposed trusts
  • "speak softly, but carry a big stick"
  • senator robert LaFollette
  • underwood simmons tariff
  • yellow peril
Also known as the "Bull Moose Party", this political party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election ofAfter Taft won the Republican Party's nomination, Roosevelt ran on the Progressive party ticket.
  • progressive party
  • payne-aldrich tariff
  • woodrow wilson
  • portsmouth conference
Amendment to the United States Constitution (1913) gave Congress the power to tax income.
  • square deal
  • federal trade commission act
  • 16th amendment
  • 17th amendment
Aide of Woodrow Wilson in his attempts in 1915 and 1916 to mediate an end to the European conflict.
  • john muir
  • george perkins marsh
  • colonel edward house
  • woodrow wilson
(WW) 1914, New antitrust legislation constructed to remedy deficiencies of the Sherman Antitrust Act, namely, it's effectiveness against labor unions, also made labor unions not dependent on antilaws
  • federal reserve act
  • clayton antitrust act
  • national reclamation act
  • hepburn railroad regulation act
Prohibited the sale of interstate commerce goods produced by children (wilson)
  • elkin's act
  • federal reserve act
  • clayton antitrust act
  • keating-owen act
the threat to Western civilization said to arise from the power of Asiatic peoples
  • yellow peril
  • porfirio diaz
  • gifford pinchot
  • senator robert LaFollette
a dictator who dominated Mexico, permitted foriegn companies to develop natural resources and had allowed landowners to buy much of the countries land from poor peasants
  • porfirio diaz
  • gifford pinchot
  • JP Morgan
  • pancho villa
backed by Roosevelt in 1902, it provided federal funds for the construction of damns, reservoirs, and canals in the West—projects that would open new lands for cultivation and provide cheap electric power later on.
  • clayton antitrust act
  • national reclamation act
  • hay-pauncefote treaty
  • hepburn railroad regulation act
TR est. this dept armed with the Bureau of Corporations meant to probe businesses engaged in interstate commerce and clearing the road for trust-busting era
  • Department of Commerce and Labor
  • hepburn railroad regulation act
  • federal reserve act
  • square deal
a 10 mile strip of land along the panama canal, once governed by the U.S
  • JP Morgan
  • porfirio diaz
  • canal zone
  • great white fleet
Roosevelt's 1904 extension of the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the United States has the right to protect its economic interests in South And Central America by using military force
  • northern securities company
  • underwood simmons tariff
  • roosevelt corollary
  • great white fleet
Sparked by the Panic of 1893 and 1907, the 1913 Federal Reserve Act created the Federal Reserve System, which issued paper money controlled by government banks.
  • federal reserve act
  • hepburn railroad regulation act
  • national reclamation act
  • hay-pauncefote treaty
Woodrow Wilson's program in his campaign for the presidency in 1912, the New Freedom emphasized business competition and small government. It sought to reign in federal authority, release individual energy, and restore competition. It echoed many of the progressive social-justice objectives while pushing for a free economy rather than a planned one.
  • New Freedom
  • square deal
  • 16th amendment
  • federal trade commission act
aimed primarily at reducing abuse of rebates used by railroads
  • elkin's act
  • hay-pauncefote treaty
  • federal reserve act
  • square deal
This law authorized a presidentially-appointed commission to oversee industries engaged in interstate commerce, such as the meatpackers. The commissioners were expected to crush monopolies at the source.
  • federal trade commission act
  • 17th amendment
  • 16th amendment
  • federal reserve act
1914, lowered tariff, substantially reduced import fees. Lost tax revenue would be replaced with an income tax that was implemented with the 16th amendment. (wilson)
  • northern securities company
  • roosevelt corollary
  • porfirio diaz
  • underwood simmons tariff
Had made a legendary reputation for himself and his Wall Street banking house by financing the reorganization of railroads, insurance companies, and banks, He did not believe that "money power" was dangerous
  • porfirio diaz
  • canal zone
  • JP Morgan
  • gifford pinchot
Forest Service, felt Ballinger had shown special preference to the purchasing group, protested to a congressional committee then was fired by Taft
  • pancho villa
  • porfirio diaz
  • gifford pinchot
  • great white fleet
The meeting between Japan, Russia, and the U.S. that ended the Russo-Japanese War inRoosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping the fighting between those two countries.
  • payne-aldrich tariff
  • george perkins marsh
  • progressive party
  • portsmouth conference
A giant conglomerate of railroads that had a monopoly over the Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines; President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the company broken up in 1902, and it was dissolved by the Supreme Court inviolated sherman antitrust act. jp morgan and hill.
  • pinchot-ballinger controversy
  • roosevelt corollary
  • porfirio diaz
  • northern securities company
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