The Wilson Years

By the end of the Progressive Era, Americans expected the government, particularly the federal government, to play a more active role in regulating the economy and solving social problems.

• True

• False

Woodrow Wilson entered politics as a firm conservative

• True

• False

The most conspicuous limit to progressivism came in its failure to address economic reform issues

• True

• False

Woodrow Wilson wanted the Federal Trade Commission to break up big business

• True

• False

In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson called his program the New Freedom

• True

• False

To restore public confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a

• federal reserve system

• Federal Trade Commission

• gold-based currency system

• loan system

The Keating-Owen Act was passed in order to regulate

• Child labor

• Farm Loans

• Price Discrimination

• Railroad Workdays

What law reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30% of the value of the goods?

• Payne-Aldrich Tariff

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Keating-Owen Act

• Underwood Tariff

One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned

• Child Labor

• Income Tax

• Price Discrimination

• Racial Discrimination