Quiz: 17.3 - 17.5

Roosevelt often compared his Square Deal programs to...

• ensuring that EVERY American got a "fair hand" of cards - it was up to each person to make the best of it
• the four pillars of the Constitution
• the type of assistance he recieved while serving in the Navy - 4 square meals a day

What was the goal of Americanization efforts?

• create better work place environments for American workers
• make a law requiring American born citizens to be paid more than foreign born workers
• teach new immigrants English and force them to assimiliate to American culture
• remove Native Americans from their lands and relocate them to reservations

Social Darwinism was used to justify...

• paying men more than women for factory jobs
• passing all kinds of Jim Crow laws, which segregated blacks and whites
• forcing new immigrants to learn English

The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson set which important precedent [standard to be followed]?

• "separate but equal" -- segregation was constitutional
• Asian immigrants would never be allowed to beomce US citizens
• male and female factory workers must receive the same hourly wage for the same position

The 1902 Pennsyvania Coal Miner's Strike was an early example of...

• the president using the authority of the federal government to intervene in worker-company conflict
• muckraking
• the federal government protecting trusts from being busted up

The main goal of Roosevet's Square Deal was...

• to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small business owners and the poor
• to clean up the gross cities who were ruined by industrialization
• reduce racial violence and inequality in the South

The goal of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) was to...

• oversee rail charges for shipments that passed through more than one state; the goal was to specifically protect farmers from greedy railroad companies
• charge higher taxes on goods shipped by rail, generating $$ for the government
• set minimuim rates for all passenger tickets on train routes that crossed state lines

TRUE or FALSE: Roosevelt saw a difference between "good" trusts and "bad" trusts

• True
• False

Which current governmental agency is MOST related to the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act ?

• Federal Reserve
• Food and Drug Administration
• Department of Agriculture
• Deparment of Food Safety and Production

Roosevelt agreed with Gifford Pinchot, who led the Division of Forestry in the US Department of Agriculture. He believed in the "rational use" policy of preservation. What did that mean?

• forests should be preserved for public use - so that the trees could mature enough to make good lumber
• forests should be set aside for conservation so that they would not be cut down
• the federal government should charge people a fee for visiting a National Park