Progressive Presidents

Who had the idea to get involved in social issues

Theodore Roosevelt

Square Deal

Both sides get something they wanted

Hepburn Act

Cracking down on railroad behaviors by putting up signs for prices

Who is Upton Sinclair

Muckraker who investigated meat packing industries. Author of The Jungle

Food and drug act

Safe food and medications put in place by Roosevelt

Meat inspection Act

Guidelines on now meat can be processed. Put in place by Roosevelt

National forest system

Put in place by Roosevelt

Who is the creator of the labor dept.

William H. Taft

Roosevelts campaign running against Taft

New nationalism

What did Roosevelt say he wanted to do during this campaign

Transform us into becoming "steward of public welfare”

The Republican Party split in half between Roosevelt and Taft. What did Roosevelt call the new party

Bull Moose

Woodrow Wilson won the election and had a …. outlook

New freedom

Underwood Simmons tariff

Lowest tariff in U.S. History. He did not like big businesses so he wanted them to compete

Federal reserve act

12 districts across the U.S. Monitors the economies and they can fall on eachother

Keating-owen act

Prohibiting child labor, people under 18 can't work

Russo-Japanese war

Russia and Japan fighting over Manchuria for the land that had oil, copper, and tin

Treaty of portsmith

Roosevelt gets involved in the conflict giving Japan the land

Great white fleet

Roosevelt builds new navy, paints all boats white, and rides around the world to show that he was superior

What caused Roosevelt to add Roosevelt corollary to Monroe doctrine

Germanys attack on Venezuela

Why did we want the Panama Canal

Transporting goods faster

Who originally owned the Panama Canal when it was 60% built

French

Who had the dollar diplomacy ideas

William H. Taft

Dollar diplomacy

Getting Latin American nations hooked on American products for control

Who had the idea of moral diplomacy

Woodrow Wilson