APUSH Chapter 28 Cause and Effect

Cause: Old-Time populists, muckraking jornalists, social-gospel ministers, and European socialist immigrants

Effect: Provided the pioneering forces who laid the oundation for the Progressive movement

Cause: Progressive concern about political corruption

Effect: Led to reforms like the initiative, referendum, and direct election of senators

Cause: Governors like Robert La Follette

Effect: Led the way in using universities and regulatory agencies to pursue progressive goals

Cause: Roosevelt's threat to seize the anthracite coal mines

Effect: Forced a compromise settlement of a stroke that threatened the national well-being

Cause: Settlement houses and women's clubs

Effect: Served as the launching pads for widespread female involvement in progressive reforms

Cause: Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Effect: Outraged consumers and led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

Cause: Roosevelt's personal interest in conservation

Effect: Ended the era of uncontrolled exploitation of nature and involved the federal government in preserving natural resources

Cause: Taft's political mishandling of tariff nd conservation policies

Effect: Incensed pro-Roosevelt progressives and increased heir attacks on the Republican Old Guard

Cause: Russia's and Japan's hostility to an American role in China

Effect: Made Taft's dollar-diplomacy policy a failure

Cause: Roosevelt's feeling that he was cheated out of the Republican nominated by the Taft machine

Effect: Laid the basis for a third-party crusade in the election of 1912