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1
Q

Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican Party and became presidential candidate for the newly formed _____________ party in the election of 1912.

A

Progressive party

2
Q

Who rallied behind Taft?

A

Conservative Republicans

3
Q

Wilson was what kind of Democrat?

A

a progressive Democrat

4
Q

Roosevelt’s program was called?

A

Square Deal

5
Q

Wilson’s program was called?

A

New Freedom

6
Q

Who won the election of 1912?

A

Woodrow Wilson

7
Q

Five weeks after taking office Wilson appeared before congress with his bill to ___________

A

reduce tariffs

8
Q

In 1913, Congress passed _____________, and Wilson signed it into law, which reduced the average tariff on imported goods

A

Underwood Tariff

9
Q

The Underwood Tariff provided for levying a what?

A

Income Tax

10
Q

To restore public confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a __________ system

A

Federal Reserve

11
Q

What created 12 regional banks to be supervised by a Board of Governors?

A

Federal Reserve Act

12
Q

What was created to monitor American businesses? (FTC)

A

Federal Trade Commission

13
Q

the FTC had the power to investigate companies and issue what types of orders against what type of companies?

A

cease and desist orders, companies engaging in unfair trade practices

14
Q

Wilson wanted to do what to big business?

A

break it up

15
Q

Progressives in Congress passed the what? that broke up big business and trusts?

A

Clayton Antitrust ACt

16
Q

in 1916, Wilson signed the first federal law regulating what?

A

Child Labor

17
Q

What prohibited the employment of children under the age of 14 in factories?

A

Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

18
Q

What did the supreme court do with the child labor law?

A

Declared it unconstitutional

19
Q

What Act created an 8 hour work day?

A

Adamson Act

20
Q

Americans expected what to play a more active role in regulating the economy and solving socail problems?

A

Federal governmentq

21
Q

Who led the Niagara Falls mmeting?

A

W.E.B. Du Bois

22
Q

what does NAACP stand for?

A

National Association for the Advancment of Colored People

23
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who started the Anti-defamation League?

A

Sigmund Livingston