CH18 ProgressiveNational

What was Teddy Roosevelt's program on regulating big business and protecting consumers was called

• New Frontier

• Square Deal

• New Horizons

• Square Freedom

What did Taft do that made progressives mad?

• Lowered taxes

• Protected criminals

• Received bribes

• Raised tariffs

Who won the 1912 election?

• Democrat Woodrow Wilson

• Bull Moose Teddy Roosevelt

• Republican William Taft

• Labor Eugene V. Debs

Under his New Freedom, Wilson hoped to do all of the following EXCEPT?

• Eliminate or limit trusts that limited economic freedom

• Increase corporate influence on government actions

• Reduce corruption in the Federal government

• Create the Federal Trade Commission

What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Act do?

• Made trusts and monopolies illegal

• Made child labor illegal

• Legalized big businesses trusts

• Legalized tenement housing for immigrants

Did the Clayton Act help or hurt trusts out to destroy competition?

• Help because it made Sherman act illegal

• Hurt because it added to Sherman act

What was an effect of muckraker writing like THE JUNGLE?

• Pure food and drug act to regulate prescriptions

• Meat inspection Act to ensure meat safety for consumers

• Both A and B

• None of the Above

Wanting to protect forests from being developed is an example of?

• Reservationism

• Nationalism

• Preservation

• Elevation

As a supporter of Preservation, what did Teddy Roosevelt do?

• Built hotels on unused lands to support tourism

• Created the U.S. Forest Service and First National Park Yellowstone

• Campaigned and lobbied for businesses to gain control of national parks

• Established national recycling program

Which of the following describes jobs of the Federal Reserve System?

• Regulates amounts of money in circulation

• Setting interest rates

• Regulates how much money banks can loan

• All of these listed above