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1
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As a ___________ Theodore Roosevelt believed that the United States was in competition with other nations.

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Social Darwinist

2
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To regulate big business without breaking up trusts, Roosevelt convinced Congress to pass the _______________ to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission

A

Hepburn Act

3
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In the Coal Strike of 1902, Roosevelt urged the union and the owners to accept __________,, which is a settlement imposed by an outside party

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Arbitration

4
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In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s observations in “The Jungle” resulted in passage of the ____________, regulating food industry

A

Pure Food and Drug Act

5
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Realizing the nation’s bountiful resources were being used up at an alarming rate, Roosevelt urged Americans to _______ these resources.

A

Conserve

6
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In 1902, Roosevelt supported passage of a law authorizing the use of funds from _______________ to pay for irrigation projects in the west.

A

Public Land

7
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Roosevelt backed efforts to save ___________ and established many new national parks and wildlife refuges.

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Nations Forests

8
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Taft believed ___________- limited competition , hurt consumers, and protected the trusts.

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high Tariffs

9
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When Taft accepted the __________, which cut tariffs hardly at all and raised them on some goods, his standing among Republiccan progressives deteriorated.

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Payne-Aldrich Tariff

10
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Suspicion of Tafts secretary of the interior grew when he tried to make nearly a million acres of ___________available for private development

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Public Forests

11
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Taft established the ___________, a federal agency that investigated and publicized child labor problems.

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Childrens Bureau

12
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Taft also set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the mining companies, expanded ___________, and prevented development of waterpower sites.

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National Forests

13
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wrote the jungle, a book describing conditions in the meatpacking industry

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Upton Sinclair

14
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disobedience to authority

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insubordination

15
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appointed to head the United States Forest Service

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Gifford Pinchot

16
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a settlement negotiated by an outside party

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aRBITRATION

17
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Roosevelts reform programs

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square deal

18
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What incident did Roosevelt criticize as an example of groups pursuing their private interests at the expense of the nation?

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Formation of the Nothern Securities

19
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In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attourney general to fild a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against

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Northern SEcurities

20
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In what area did Taft’s contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt’s

A

Conservation

21
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IN October 1911, Taft announced an antitrust lawsuit against?

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U.S. Steel

22
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Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies,k protect waterpower sites from private development and

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expand the national forests