20TH CENTURY HISTORY

                                                              CHAPTER 9

                                                          REVIEW SHEET

      

VOCABULARY: Bully Pulpit, Holding Company, Arbitration, Mediation, Loose Interpretation, Strict Interpretation, Rough Riders, Trust, Northern Securities Company, Literacy Test, Nativism, Socialism, Capitalism, Minority President, Interlocking Directorate, Eugenics, Collective Bargaining,  Xenophobia, Jim Crow Laws,  Progressivism, Muckraker, Laissez Faire, Scientific Management, Commission Government, Initiative, Referendum, Recall, Direct Primary, Election At Large, Prohibition, Suffrage, Franchise, Bull Moose Party , Tariff, Square Deal, Rough Rider, Anti-saloon League, Political Machine. Symbiotic Relationship, Migrants, Immigrants, Protectionism, Mugwumps, Platform, Assimilation, New Freedom, Xenophobia, Jim Crow Laws, Unit Rule, Electoral College, Winner Take All

 

LEGISLATION: Newlands Reclamation Act, Sherman Anti-Trust Act, Meat Inspection Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act,  Federal Trade Commission,  Pure Food and Drug Act, Elkins Act, Hepburn Act, Paine Aldrich Tariff

 

PERSONALITIES: John Muir, Gifford Pinchot, J. P. Morgan, Eugene Debs, Woodrow Wilson, John L Lewis, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Florence Kelly, Louis Brandeis, Robert LaFollette, Frances Willard, Carry Nation, William Howard Taft, W.E.B. Dubois , Carry Chapman Catt, Upton Sinclair, John Dewey, Ida Tarbell

 

ACRONYMS:  FDA, FTC, WASP, UMW, FRS, NAACP, WCTU, ICC, NAWSA, PUC, OSHA

 

ESSAY QUESTIONS

 1.    Discuss the irony of the situation in which Theodore Roosevelt was tabbed as the VP candidate on the

       Mc   Kinley ticket.

 2.    Differentiate between the views held by T. Roosevelt and Taft as to the office of President.

 3.    Apply the following statement to both T. Roosevelt and Taft. "Walk softly and carry a big stick".

 4.    Differentiate between strict constructionism and loose constructionism of the constitution. Apply the appropriate principle to the Roosevelt presidency via examples.

 5.    Define arbitration and mediation. Apply the pertinent view to how T. Roosevelt handled the 1902 U.M.W. strike.

 6.    Apply the phrase "Trust Buster" to the mystique of T. Roosevelt. Illustrate with as many examples as possible.

 7.    Discuss and exemplify how T. Roosevelt and Taft expanded the power of the Presidency with regard to consumer protection.

 8.    Discuss the election of 1912 comparing the views (platforms) of the opposing candidates along with analyzing the outcome of the election.

 9.    Define tariff. What is its intent? How does it affect consumers? What is a worse-case scenario of a tariff war?

10.   Define Trust, Holding Company, and Interlocking Directorate - Differentiate how each might be considered as a restraint of trade - then apply the particular legislation which was intended to curtail the particular abuse by Big Business.

11.   What was the rationale for the creation of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission?

12.   Compare and contrast the views of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois with regard to the strategy to be used to advance the black agenda towards equality.

13.      Why were tariffs an important issue for the Progressives?

14.   List the advantages and disadvantages of immigration to a culture. What is your view as to the impact of immigrants on a society? Support your view with documentation.

15.   Discuss the Irony of the intent of the Sherman Anti Trust Act when it was initially passed and the way it was administered and against whom it was administered.

16.   Correlate Americanization, Eugenics, and Nativism to the influx of immigrants to the U.S..

17.   What was the Progressive attitude toward African Americans, immigrants and the labor movement?