Homework Check 6.3

By the end of the progressive Era, American 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

• gold-based currency system.

• federal reserve system.

• Federal Trade Commission.

• loan system.

The Keating-Owen Act was passed in order to regulate

• child labor.

• price discrimination.

• farm loans

• railroad workdays.

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

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Keating-Owen Act

• Underwood Tariff

• Payne-Aldrich Tariff

One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned

• racial discrimination.

• income tax.

• child labor.

• price discrimination.