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| Who was the American President who was the "right man at the right time"? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Identify 4 areas in which TR was a dynamic leader. | Conservation, trust-busting, imperialism, and reform. |
| What was TR's domestic policy called? | The Square Deal |
| What New York city tragedy brought the nation's attention to the need for safer factory working conditions? | Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire |
| What principle did the Supreme Court uphold in Muller v. Oregon? | The legitimacy of protective labor laws for women in factories |
| Who was the Harvard educated Black leader who founded the NAACP to work for immediate and full civil and political equality for Negroes? | W.E.B. DuBois |
| Who was the Black educator who ureged vocational training and economic improvement for Negroes? | Booker T. Washington |
| What Badger State Progressive gained national prominence for the "Wisconsin Idea" of using experts to assist in constructing rules and laws that were fair to consumers, labor and business? | Robert LaFollette, Sr. |
| What group thought it was the function of government to lead reform in society? | The Progressives |
| Who were the Muckrakers? | Investigative journalists who exposed problems in the workplace and business and urged reform. |
| What 3 Populist reforms were pursued as political goals by the Progressives? | Direct election of US Senators, secret ballot and initiative, recall and referendum |
| Why did it take so many years for women to gain the right to vote? | They had to overcome strong social role expectations |
| What Democratic President was a scholar and a moralist who was reelected in 1916 on the slogan"He kept us out of war"? | Woodrow Wilson |
| What Progressive Republican worked on government reform and went on to become a respected Supreme Court justice? | William Howard Taft |
| What were the major political reforms of the Progressives? | XIX (19th) Amendment for suffrage, direct primaries, initiative, direct election of U>S> Senatorsrecall and reform |
| What were the main economic reforms of the Progressives ? | Sherman Anti Trust Act and Clayton Anti Trust Act and the Federal Reserve Act |
| What were the main environmental and conservation reforms of the Progressives? | National Park System and states also set aside natural resources |
| What were the main social reforms of the Progressives? | New York passes work safety laws, 1916 national Child Labor Act, Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat inspection law |
| What group in society did NOT have governmental reforms to help them? | African Americans |
| What was the Wisconsin Idea? | Robert LaFollette's plan to have university experts help lawmakers to write good laws |
| What is the direct primary? | A political reform that let voters choose candidates for political parties |
| What is the initiative reform? | A political reform where citizens can tell lawmakers what issues to discuss and make laws about |
| What is referendum? | A political reform where voters not elected lawmakers) directly vote on changes to the law |
| What is recall? | A political reform that lets voters demand an early election to get rid of a bad lawmaker |
| What was the result of the ational Child Labor Committee, John Spargo and Lewis Hine's work? | The 1916 National Child Labor Law |
| What b ook did John Spargo write to describe the dangers and results of child labor? | The Bitter Cry of the Children |
| What book did Jacob Riis write to describe the misery of immigrants, sweatshops, and tenement? | How the Other Half Lives |
| What book did Upton Sinclair write that desribed the dangers of meatpacking to workers and consumers? | The Jungle |
| Who went undercover in an insane asylum and made New York set up inspections to protect mentally ill people? | Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) |
| Who set up HUll House in Chicago to help immigrants? | Jane Addams |
| Why did it take so long for women to get the vote? | Traditional patterns of women in the home were hard to overcome |
| Who wrote the book exposing the evils and greed of the Standard Oil monopoly? | Ida Tarbell |
| What reformers worked to protect natural resources and set aside public lands? | John Muir, Aldo Leopold, T. Roosevelt |
