ch 28 people

Question 1

Henry Demarest Lloyd

Answer 1

1894, criticizes Standard Oil

Question 2

Thorstein Veblen

Answer 2

“Conspicuous consumption” “predatory wealth” criticizes the rich capitalists for producing just for the sake of producing instead of what the public needs, 1900 to 1910s

Question 3

Jacob A. Riis

Answer 3

Describes the “grease” of the New York slums and tenements, 1900-1910s, “How the Other Half Lives”

Question 4

Thomas Lawson

Answer 4

Made $50 million from the stock market, exposes his associates and gets many enemies, 1900 to 1910s

Question 5

David G. Phillips

Answer 5

Says that 75% of the 90 Senators do not represent the people, but rather the trusts and RRs, 1900 to 1910s

Question 6

Lincoln Steffens

Answer 6

Criticizes cooperation and alignment between big business and the government, 1900 to 1910s

Question 7

Ida M. Tarbell

Answer 7

Criticizes Standard oil

Question 8

Elkins Act

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1903, bans rebates and being involved in rebates at all

Question 9

Hepburn Act

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1906, gives the ICC “teeth,” allows it to increase or decrease rates, free passes for RRs are banned

Question 10

Desert Land Act

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1877, the gov’t sells arid land for cheap on the condition that the owner will irrigate the land in 3 years

Question 11

Forest Reserve Act

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1891, gov’t is authorized to set land aside for conservation and reservations – 46 million acres saved

Question 12

Newlands Act

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1902, passed under TR, money from land sold in the West can be used for irrigation projects – funds many dams

Question 13

Aldrich-Vreeland Act

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1908, passed in response to the Panic of 1907, allows national banks to issue emergency currency backed by collateral

Question 14

Payne-Aldrich Bill

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Passed under Taft in 1909, increased tariffs on some imported goods, Taft says that it was one of the best bills passed ever which was unliked by TR

Question 15

Ballinger-Pinchot Quarrel

Answer 15

1910, Ballinger is the Secretary of the Interior and he opens up Western lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska for corporate development. Gifford Pinchot, a conservationist, criticizes Ballinger, and Taft dismisses Pinchot for subordination. Taft is greatly criticized by conservationists like TR

Question 16

Hetch Hetchy Valley

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1913, in Yosemite National Park, beautiful forestry, massive loss for conservationists when the San Francisco gov’t is authorized to build a dam for San Francisco’s water supply. Preservationists of the Sierra Club like John Muir don’t want, but other conservationists wanted to actually use nature’s resources, just sustainably

Question 17

Initiative

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The people can directly propose legislation

Question 18

Referendum

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Legislation is put on the ballot

Question 19

Recall

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People can vote out corrupt leaders who did not fulfill promises

Question 20

Australian Ballot

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Secret ballot that prevents party bosses from controlling votes

Question 21

Square Deal

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TR’s progressive plan, involves the 3 C’s, Control of corporations, Consumer protection, and Conservation

Question 22

Anthracite Coal Mine Strike

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1902, in Pennsylvania. Coal mine strikers walk off and mine owners refuse compromising thinking gov’t will side with the business, TR actually threatens to seize the mine and bring in troops, and a compromise is made

Question 23

Muller vs. Oregon

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1908, SCOTUS ruling that women should be given protections in the workplace because they are physically weaker, restricted some women from getting jobs but was a big win for workplace regulation over the existing law

Question 24

Lochner vs. New York

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1905, loss for progressives, SCOTUS ruling that a 10-hr workday MAX for bakers was unconstitutional

Question 25

Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire

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1911 in New York, fire in the clothing factory, locked doors and other violations of fire code cause over 100 mostly young, immigrant women to die, spawns protests and legislation for workplace protections and injury compensation laws

Question 26

Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Founded by Frances E. Willard, advocates for prohibition of alcohol

Question 27

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

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1906, intended to describe plight of workers in meatpacking industry, actually ended up causing drastic change in public view about sanitation in the meat industry, causes TR to send an investigative commission to Chicago's meatpacking plants, also led to the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 28

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 28

1906, meat can be inspected by gov't

Question 29

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 29

1906, drugs and food can be inspected to make sure there is no spiking or mislabeling

Question 30

Root-Takahira Agreement

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Agreement between U.S. and Japan in 1908, both parties promise to respect each other's territories in the Pacific

Question 31

Gentlemen's Agreement

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1907, averts war between U.S. and Japan

Question 32

Rule of Reason

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Established in 1911 by federal government suit against Standard Oil to break up the company by the Sherman Antitrust Act, says that only corporations that are "unreasonably" restrictive of trade and against public interest are illegal

Question 33

National Progressive Republican League

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Established in 1911 with Robert La Follette as the leader, TR kicks Follette aside and becomes the nomination for the Election of 1912

Question 34

Election of 1912

Answer 34

Wilson under Democrats, TR under Progressive Republicans, and Taft under Republicans, Wilson wins by a lot because the Republicans were split up, Eugene Debs gets 900k votes as a Socialist