8-history chapter 21
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- what did roosevelt do?
- he busted trusts and formed the progressive party
- what was a kickback?
- is an arrangement in which contractors padded the amount of their bill for city work.
- what was the bull moose party?
- was another name for the progressive party
- what was the clayton anti-trust act?
- was just like the sherman anti-trust act.
- who was abeth cady?
- was one of the founders of national women sufferigest association.
- who was frances willard?
- was the head of wtcu.
- who was jane adams?
- she established the hull houses
- What is the sherman anti-trust act?
- an act that band all trust and monpolies.
- what is the inter-state commerce act?
- required railroads to charge "reasonable and just" rates to publish those rates.
- who was booker t.washington?
- he founded the tuskegee instutute which taught blacks to farm and industrial skills. he believed if blacks had more economic power that they would be able to demand social equality. he also founded the national negro business league.
- who was woodrow wilson?
- was the president during this period of time.
- who was w.e.b du bois?
- was the first african american to recieve a docorate degree from harvard. he refused to accept racial inequality. he also did not agree with some of the things that booker t. washington believed and joined the NAACP.
- what happened during the election of 1908?
- roosevelt decided not to run for president because he did not want to break the tradition of only serving one ter. so, william howar taft ran and roosevelt made taft promise to to follow roosevelts policies and so taft won.
- what is the oregon system?
- this system enabled voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from their jobs.
- who was ida b. wells?
- was the editor of an african american newspaper in memphis, tenesee and was forced to leave town after publishing the names of the people involved in lynching.
- what was anti-catholicism?
- where catholics that where descrimnated.
- what is w.a.s.p?
- white angle saxton protestant
- name 3 women social workers.
- jane adams, mother cabrini, mary church terrell.
- who was susan b anthony?
- was one of the founders of the national womens sufferigest association.
- who was carrie nation?
- she protested for womens rights. her most famous is when she went into a saloon and broke kegs in half with an ax.
- what was the federal trade commission?
- to investigate corporations with unfair trade practices.
- what is the interstate commerce commission?
- to supervise the railroad industry and later the trucking industry.
- who is the KKK?
- they are a group of white angle saxton protestant people who descriminate against anyone who is not of their race or religion.
- who was descriminated against?
- the japenese, chinese, black, mexican, catholics and jews.
- who was carrie chapmen catt?
- an educator and newspaper editor.
- who was mary church terrel?
- she was an active leader for womens rights.
- who was mother cabrini?
- an italian women who came to the us and helped the poor.
- who was the youngest president that the US has ever had?
- theodor roosevelt
- who was boss tweed?
- a man named william m. tweed. he was the head of new york city's democratic politicial system. he controlled the police, the courts, and some news papers.
- who was anna howard shaw?
- was a minister and doctor.
- name 3 sufferigets.
- susan b anothony, elizabeth cady stanton, and anna howard shaw.
- what was the progressive party?
- a party formed by teddy roosevelt
- who was robert la follete?
- he led wisonsins reform minded republicans.
- who was running for president in 1904?
- roosevelt and mckinley
- what was the politicial boss?
- a person who would would represent and help those and in return they would have to vote for him. if they did not he would do horrible things to them.
- what happened in the election of 1912?
- roosevelt did not like what taft was doing and decided to run again. since, their was two republican canidates they split the vote and woodrow wilson won.
- how did roosevelt win?
- he won 57% of the popular vote