APUSH Unit 9A Quiz

Social Gospel movement

Had its origin in Protestant efforts to __aid the urban poor__

Muckrakers

Nickname given to __young reporters of popular magazines__

* Influenced the passage of key legislation that __strengthened protections for workers and consumers__
* __Exposed much corruption in American society__

17th Amendment

__Allowed voters__, instead of the state legislatures, __to directly elect U.S. senators__

Initiative Process

Allowed __citizens to propose a new law__

Referendum Process

Allowed __citizens to vote on a law that was being considered for adoption__

Recall Process

Allowed the __voters to remove an elected official from office__ before his or her term was up

Direct Primary

Allowed __party members to vote for prospective candidates__ instead of having them hand-picked by the party boss

National Consumers League

An __organization made up largely of women__ who lobbied at the state and national levels for legislation that would __protect both women and children at home and in the workplace__

Settlement Houses

Gave __poor and immigrant women advice on countless problems__ that they encountered in the city

Hull House

* Founded by __Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr__ in Chicago
* Model for __settlement house__ construction in other cities
* __Clubs for adults and children, rooms for classes, and a kindergarten__

Acts Roosevelt Supported

* __Interstate Commerce Act__
* __Pure Food and Drug Act__
* __Meat Inspection Act__

Interstate Commerce Act

Designed to __further regulate interstate shippers__

Pure Food Drug Act

__Insured__ consumers were eating __safe, uncontaminated food__

Meat Inspection Act

Set __standards of sanitation for meat packing plants__

Forest Reserve Act

Preserve __150 million acres of federal land__ that __couldn’t be sold to private individuals or companies__

U.S. Forest Service

Acted to __set aside 200 million acres of land for national forests__

Ballinger-Pinchot Affair

Richard A. Ballinger __allowed private business interests to gain access to several million acres of land in Alaska__

* A __conflict rooted in contrasting ideas about how to best use and conserve western natural resources__

New Nationalism

Called for a __national approach to the country’s affairs__ and a __strong president to deal with them__

Bull Moose Party

Its platform included many __Progressive causes,__ including the __elimination of child labor, suffrage for women, and an eight-hour workday__

New Freedom Policy

Emphasized __business competition and small gov.__

Roosevelt also used the federal gov. to…

Aggressively investigate and __prosecute illegal__ __**trusts**__ and __**holding companies**__

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

A federal law that __committed the American government to opposing monopolies__

* Under this enforcement, more than __40 large corporations were dismantled__

Square Deal

The __president got more involved in conflicts between labor and capital__

* Would be used throughout Roosevelt’s time in office to __emphasize that gov. intervention could help the plights of ordinary Americans__
* Anthracite Coal Miners’ Strike
* Made a deal for both the workers and the corporation

William Howard Taft

* __Broke up twice as many trusts as TR__
* Continued __TR’s conservation policies__

Woodrow Wilson

Took up the fight against the __Triple Wall of Privilege (tariffs, banking, and trusts)__

* __Underwood Tariff__ (lowered tariffs)
* __Federal Reserve Act__ (bank)


* __Clayton Anti-Trust Act__

Federal Reserve Act

Established a __national banking system overseen by twelve district banks that were federally regulated__

* Creation of __Federal Reserve notes__

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

__Strengthened and clarified__ the requirements of the __Sherman Anti-Trust Act__

* __Outlawed__ certain __specific strikes__ and __other labor activities legal__

Federal Trade Commission

Organization that its main job was to __investigate illegal business practices__

16th Amendment

Authorized the __collection of federal income taxes__

* Could be __collected largely from the wealthy__

Anti-Saloon League

Members that __felt alcohol was the major cause for the woes of the lower classes__

18th Amendment

__Banned the manufacture and sell of alcohol__

* Prohibition

National American Woman Suffrage Association

* Created by a merger of two women’s suffrage groups
* Led in its early years by __Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony__
* __Crucial in the final push for women’s suffrage__ after World War 1

Woman’s Party

* Founded by __Alice Paul__


* __Crucial in the final push for women’s suffrage__ after World War 1

Feminism

* Word was first used by a __group of women meeting in New York City__ in 1914
* Feminists __wanted to remove themselves from the restrains that society had placed on them because they were female__

19th Amendment

Officially acknowledged the __women’s right to vote__

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

One of the horrible events that __convinced many Progressives to push for reforms of safety and health condition in factories__

* The deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city

Election of 1912

* __Theodore Roosevelt__ (__Bull Moose Party__)
* __William Howard Taft__ (Republican)
* __Woodrow Wilson__ (Democrat)
* Because of the split votes between Rep. and former Rep., __W.W wins__