Chapter 23: From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism

Prohibition of Alcohol

Know the purpose of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Women's Suffrage

Know the purpose of the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Muller vs. Oregon/Brandeis Brief

Name the most effective proponent of "social jurisprudence".

Progressive reformers realize government could be crucial agency in accomplishing progressive ideologies

Identify where the commission form of government was pioneered.

Believed in experts solving problems

Know Progressives' attitudes toward the commissions they championed.

Robert M. La Follette

Name the most famous reform governor of the Progressive Era.

Brooker T. Washington

Name the individual Theodore Roosevelt invited to the White House which angered southerners.

Prepared to seize mines, Morgan urged settlement, companies retreated, wages increase, hours decrease

Know the response of President Theodore Roosevelt in the Great Coal Strike of 1902.

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and Pure Food and Drug Act

Identify the act passed in response to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Investigation of Chicago meatpacking plant after reading The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Identify a reason Roosevelt pushed to regulate the food and drug industry.

Skillful administrator

Know Taft's greatest strength before becoming president.

Woodrow Wilson, William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Eugene Debs

Know the candidates for president of the United States in 1912.

Republican split between Roosevelt and Taft, democrats win by default

Know the reason for Woodrow Wilson's victory in the election of 1912.

Progressive Party

Name the political party Theodore Roosevelt was a candidate for in 1912.

Allows congress to enforce income tax

Know the purpose of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution.

Prohibited unfair trade and prevent economy from spiraling

Know the purpose of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act of 1914.

Federal Trade Commission

Name the agency established in 1914 to oversee business practices.