USH: Taft

How did progressive and conservative Republicans feel about labor unions in the early 1900s?

• Conservatives advocated for labor unions, but progressives wanted to limit their power.

  
  

• Progressives advocated for labor unions, but conservatives wanted to limit their power.

  
  

• Both progressives and conservatives advocated for labor unions.

  
  

• Both progressives and conservatives disliked the labor unions.

  
  

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Conservative Republicans wanted to use tariffs to protect American industry from

• interstate competition.

  
  

• foreign competition.

  
  

• immigrant laborers.

  
  

• unskilled laborers.

  
  

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Why did many conservative Republicans oppose conservation efforts in the early 1900s?

• They wanted to create more space for towns and cities.

  
  

• They wanted to make hunting and ranching illegal.

  
  

• They wanted to use natural resources for business purposes.

  
  

• They wanted to preserve natural areas.

  
  

To which post did Theodore Roosevelt appoint William Howard Taft in 1904?

• secretary of state

  
  

• secretary of war

  
  

• secretary of the interior

  
  

• assistant secretary of the navy

  
  

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Why did Theodore Roosevelt want William Taft to succeed him as president?

• Roosevelt valued Taft’s former experience as a governor of the Philippines.

  
  

• Roosevelt valued Taft’s former experience as a judge.

  
  

• Roosevelt thought Taft would carry out Roosevelt’s progressive reforms.

  
  

• Roosevelt thought Taft had been a valuable vice president.

  
  

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Which position did Taft hold after his presidency?

• lawyer

  
  

• Supreme Court justice

  
  

• senator

  
  

• presidential adviser

  
  

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Why were Theodore Roosevelt and his supporters disappointed in Taft’s presidency?

• Taft was less conservative than they had hoped.

  
  

• Taft was less progressive than they had hoped.

  
  

• Taft did not pass any business reforms.

  
  

• Taft did not pass any social reforms.

  
  

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A major progressive business reform that President Taft enacted was

• strengthening labor unions.

  
  

• decreasing tariffs.

  
  

• strengthening weaker trusts.

  
  

• breaking up large monopolies.

  
  

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President Taft’s passage of the Mann-Elkins Act in 1910 continued Roosevelt’s legacy of railroad reform by

• strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  
  

• establishing the Interstate Commerce Commission.

  
  

• continuing to lower railroad rates.

  
  

• reestablishing the practice of giving rebates to large companies.

  
  

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President Taft’s creation of the Children’s Bureau was an example of

• a progressive Republican social reform.

  
  

• a conservative Republican political reform.

  
  

• a Democratic political reform.

  
  

• a Democratic business reform.

  
  

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