Ch.9 MAH History Reveiw
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- This muckraking journalist, in speaking about his famous novel, said, "I aimed at the nation's heart but by accident I hit it in the stomach."
- Upton Sinclair
- This legislation put forth strict cleanliness requirements for meatpackers and created the program of federal meat inspection still used today.
- Meat Inspection Act
- Which party won the 1912 election.
- Democractic Party
- Which party nominated Woodrow Wilson for president.
- Democractic Party
- To which party did William Howard Taft belong.
- Republican Party
- Which party nominated Eugene V. Debs for president in the 1912 election.
- Socialist Party
- This was started by prominant African-American and white reformers.
- NAACP
- This was the principle that guided Roosevelt efforts to organize water projects to transform dry wilderness areas into agricultural areas.
- conservation
- Which party was known as the Bul Moose Party.
- Progressive Party
- Which party ran the most conservative cadidate in the 1912 election.
- Republican Party
- This progressive championed the rights of women and children by moving into a settlement house, working as the Chief Inspector of Factories for Illinois, and helping to win passage of the Illinois Factory Act.
- Floence Kelley
- This was settled when Roosevelt got involved in the negotiations.
- 1902 coal miners' strike
- This is another name for progressivism.
- progressive movement
- This legislation halted the sale of contaminated foods or drugs and called for truth in labeling.
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- As a symbolic gesture, Roosevelt invited him to dine at the White House.
- Booker T. Washington
- This is a vote on an initiative.
- Referendum
- This is what Roosevelt promised that the common people would receive.
- Square Deal
- Members of the Women's Christain Temperance Union fought for this cause by entering saloons, singing, praying, and asking saloonkeepers to stop selling alcohol.
- prohibition
- Which party split over the Payne-Aldrich Tariff and other issues.
- Republican Party
- This so upset Roosevelt that he appointed a comission to verify its accuracy.
- The Jungle
- This legislation was used by Roosevelt to file 44 antitrust suits.
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- This is a bill initiated, or launched, by citizens.
- initiative
- This is a term used to describe a journalist who exposed government abuses and big buisness corruption to the readers of mass circulation magazines an newspapers.
- muckraker
- This was one of the inspirations for the creation of assembly lines at the Ford Motor Company.
- scientific management
- This allowed for the popular, or direct, election of U.S. senators.
- 17th Amendment
- This allows voters to force public officals to face another election before the end of their terms if enough voters ask for it.
- recall
- This reform govenor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin made the railroad industry a major target.
- Robert M. La Follette