Quiz Two Terms

William McKinley

William McKinley

• Republican nominee for the election of 1896

• 25th president of the US

• Known for his support of a high protective tariff

• Also considered a friend of labor

• Well liked, well traveled president

• Leader during the war with Spain in 1898

• Helped make the US a world power

Gold Standard

• The coinage of gold only

• Since gold is limited, this limited the amount of money in circulation

JP Morgan

• American Banker

• Invested European money into American businesses

• Took over poorly run companies and helped them get back on their feet

• Took over the bankrupt railroad companies

  • This technique eliminated competition, stabilized the rates, and reduced debts

• Bought Carnegie’s Steel and Iron holdings

Jacob Riis

• American writer

• Wrote a series of articles that was published into a book (How the Other Half Lives)

  • Wrote about tenement life in these articles

Lincoln Steffens

• American writer

• Most known for Tweed Days in St. Louis, which was a series of muckraking articles published into a book

  • These articles were about the corruption and cruelty of urban politics

  • One of the articles, The Shame of St. Louis, is considered one of the first muckraking articles

Ida Tarbell

• American writer

• Most known for The History of the Standard Oil Company, which was a series of muckraking articles that got published into a book

  • In these articles, she revealed how John D. Rockefeller used illegal means to monopolize the early oil industry

Jane Addams

• Social worker

• Created the Hull House in Chicago

  • The Hull House was a settlement house

• These settlement houses housed immigrants, taught them English, and provided other social services

Upton Sinclair

• American author and journalist

• Wrote the novel called The Jungle

  • The novel goes in explicit detail about the awful conditions of the meat packing industry

Northern Securities

• A railroad trust formed by J.P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill, and their associates

• Formed in 1901

• They controlled the Northern Pacific Railway, Great Northern Railway, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, etc.

• Company was sued in 1902 by the Justice Department under President Theodore Roosevelt under the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890

• Government won the case and the company was dissolved

Anthracite Coal Strike

Pure Food and Drug Act

Meat Inspection Act

Food and Drug Administration

Hepburn Act

Antiquities Act

Gifford Pinchot

John Muir

Hay-Herran Treaty

Panama Canal

William Gorgas

Walter Reed

Trust Busting

Standard Oil

American Tobacco Co.

American Telephone and Telegraph

William Howard Taft

US Steel

Big Stick Diplomacy

Dollar Diplomacy

Ballinger Pinchot Affair

Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Bull Moose Party

Woodrow Wilson

New Freedom

New Nationalism

Underwood Tariff

Federal Reserve Act

Louis Brandeis (brief)

Muller V Oregon

Henry Ford

Model T