C5 Mr. Trang Vocab Quiz

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Capacity

the maximum amount that something can contain. Wilson had once written that the president is at liberty in law and conscience. He wants the president to lead the country. His [-] will set the limit or the law of the country.

Levying

the act of imposing a tax, fee, or fine. An important section of the Underwood Tariff Act was the provision of [-] an income fee.

Income Tax

a direct tax on earnings of individuals and corporations. Even though the Constitution prohibited direct taxes on individuals, the 16th Amendment allowed this. The Underwood Tariff Act was thus allowed to levy an [-] tax.

Unfair trade practices

trade practices that hurt competition. The FTC could investigate companies who had suspicions of [-] trade practices.

Labor

work, especially hard physical work. In 1916, Wilson signed the first federal law regulating child [-].

Foundation

an underlying basis or principle. During his presidency, Wilson built upon Roosevelt’s [-], expanding the role of the federal government and the president

Progressive Party

nicknamed the Bull Moose Party. Roosevelt became the presidential candidate for it.

New Nationalism

a program of reforms by Roosevelt. He favored legislation to protect women and children in the labor force. He supported workers’ compensation for those injured on the job. He wanted a federal trade commission to regulate industry.

New Freedom

Wilson’s counter to Roosevelt’s New Nationalism. He criticized it as one that supported “regulated monopoly.” He also believed Roosevelt gave too much power in regards to economics to the government

Federal Trade Comission

created by Wilson to monitor American business. FTC had the power to investigate companies for unfair trade practices. They could also file “cease and desist” orders

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

founded by Progressives in 1909. Du Bois and other founders believed voting was essential to stop lynching and racial discrimination. Was started by many meetings, including the Niagara Movement, that preceded it.

Dynamic

characterized by constant change, activity, or progress. Roosevelt and Taft were very different people. Roosevelt was a very [-] person, loving the spotlight and the rough-and-tumble world of politics.

Schemes

a large-scale plan for attaining a particular object or putting a particular object or idea into effect. Roosevelt had grand ideas and [-] but left the details to do them to others. This was due to his dynamic nature. 

Syndicate

a business group. Pinchot charged the new secretary with having plotted to give valuable land in Alaska to a private [-] for personal profit. He took the charges to the president.

Insubordination

another word for disobedience. Pinchot leaked the story to the press and asked Congress to investigate. Taft fired him for [-] after.

Established

to set up a thing. Taft [-] the Children’s Bureau, a federal agency similar to Roosevelt’s Bureau of Corporations. This group investigated and publicized problems with child labor.

Joseph Cannon

Speaker of House during Roosevelt’s presidency. Taft needed his help to pass a new tariff.

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

a deal which cut tariffs barely and raised them on some goods. The head of the Senate Finance Committee wanted to protect high tariffs. This led to the [-] Tariffs.

Richard Ballinger

a more conservative corporate lawyer. He replaced James R. Garfield to be Roosevelt’s secretary of the interior. He was suspicious as he tried making a million acres of public forests and mineral reserves available for private development.

Trigger

during Roosevelt’s first year in office, a fight for control of the Burlington Railroad erupted on the New York Stock Exchange. This [-] a financial panic. This could have possibly plunged the nation into a recession.

Arbitration

a settlement imposed by an outside party. Roosevelt urged the union and the owners to accept [-]. The union agreed while the mine workers did not. This is because they were determined to destroy the UMW

Issue

a problem or important topic for debate or discussion. When Roosevelt took office, he was not greatly concerned about consumer [-]. But, by 1905, consumer protection had become a national issue

Environmental

something that relates to the environment. Roosevelt put his stamp on the presidency most clearly in the area of [-] conservation

Square Deal

Roosevelt’s reform programs during the second term. To him, it was inconsistent to believe in Social Darwinism and Progressivism. He believed both and wanted the U.S. to adopt progressive reforms

Northern Securities

a giant new holding company. It was created by E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, and J.P. Morgan. Their stock battle almost caused a recession, which led to them making the [-] as a compromise

United Mine workers

a union for mine workers. They ordered a strike of miners who dug anthracite, or hard coal. Nearly 150,000 workers walked out of eastern Pennsylvania’s anthracite mines. They demanded a pay increase, reduction in work hours, and recognition for their union

Hepburn Act

an act that intended to strengthen the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC). Pushed through Congress in 1906 by Roosevelt. Did this by giving the ICC power to set railroad rates

Upton Sinclair

the author of the book “The Jungle.” Published in 1906, the book was based on Sinclair’s close observations of the slaughterhouses in Chicago. It was a best seller and made consumers ill. As a result, Roosevelt and Congress responded with the Meat Inspection Act

Progressivism

[-] was not a tightly organized political movement with a specific set of reforms. Instead, it was a collection of different ideas and activities. [-] had many different views about how to fix the problems they believed existed in American society

Muckraker

Among the first people to articulate Progressive ideas was a group of crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption. These writers became known as [-] after a speech by President Theodore Roosevelt

Commission plan

Under the [-], a city’s government would be divided into several departments, which would each be placed under the control of an expert commissioner

Direct primary

La Follette pressured the state legislature to require each party to hold a [-], in which all party members could vote for a candidate to run in the general election

Initiative

The [-] allowed a group of citizens to introduce legislation and required the legislature to vote on it

Legislation

laws, considered collectively

Referendum

The [-] allowed proposed legislation to be submitted to the voters for approval

Recall

The [-] allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before his or her term had expired

Suffrage

The movement for women’s voting rights became known as the [-] movement. [-] is the right to vote

Strategy

The American Woman Suffrage Association believed that the best [-] was to convince state governments to give women the right to vote before trying to amend the Constitution

Funds

These laws established insurance [-] financed by employers. Workers injured in industrial accidents received payments from the funds

Temperance

The [-] movement, which advocated the moderation or elimination of alcohol, emerged from these concerns

Advocated

The temperance movement, which [-] the moderation of elimination of alcohol, emerged from these concerns

Prohibition

Later it pressed for [-]- laws banning the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol

Socialism

The idea that the government should own and operate industry for the community as a whole.

Jacob Riis

In his influential book How the Other Half Lives, published in 1890, [-] described the poverty, disease, and crime that afflicted many immigrant neighborhoods in New York City.

Robert La Follette

Political reform first came to the state level when Wisconsin voterselected Republican [-] to be governor. La Follette used his office to attack the way political parties ran their conventions.

Alice Paul

a Quaker social worker who headed NAWSA’s congressional committee, had organized the Washington march. Paul, a graduate of Swarthmore college who also received a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, was jailed three times for demonstration for woman’s suffrage.