Homework Check 6.2

William Howard Taft brought many more antitrust cases during his term than Theodore Roosevelt did during his presidency.

• True

• False

Progressives were pleased with William Howard Taft for pushing through the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.

• True

• False

Theodore Roosevelt believed that most trusts benefited the economy and breaking them up would do more harm than good.

• True

• False

In international affairs, Theodore Roosevelt was a Social Darwinist.

• True

• False

By intervening in the labor dispute surrounding the coal strike of 1902, Roosevelt took the first step toward establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society.

• True

• False

Theodore Roosevelt supported the Republican nomination of William Howard Taft in the 1908 election after Taft had served as his

• Secretary of State.

• Secretary of Defense.

• Attorney General.

• Secretary of War.

Theodore Roosevelt warned William Howard Taft that tariff reform would

• anger progressives.

• increase spending.

• anger powerful business leaders.

• divide the Republican Party.

In the coal strike of 1902, the United Mine Workers agreed to accept _____________________, a settlement negotiated by an outside party, but the mine owners refused.

• regulation

• recall

• arbitration

• prohibition

In what area did Taft's contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt's?

• muckraking

• conservation

• prohibition

• suffrage

Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies, protect waterpower sites from private development, and

• create national seashores.

• expand the national forests.

• curb industrial pollution.

• encourage hunting laws.