Questão 1
Questão
What was Teddy Roosevelt's "Square Deal"?
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It focused on conservation, controlling corporations, and consumer protection
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It focused on immigration, initiative, and Indian relations
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It focused on progressive movements like Temperance and women's suffrage
Questão 2
Questão
How did Teddy Roosevelt (properly) use the Sherman Antitrust Act?
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He used it to break up the Northern Securities Company (J.P. Morgan)
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He used it to break up the Standard Oil Company (John D. Rockefeller)
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He used it to break up U.S. Steel (Andrew Carnegie)
Questão 3
Questão
What was important about Roosevelt's behavior in relation to the Anthracite Coal Strike?
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He threatened to seize the mine unless the owners negotiated with the employees, meaning he supported the workers
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He threatened to seize the mine unless the employees submitted to the owners, meaning he supported the employers
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He refused to side with either party and remained neutral
Questão 4
Questão
What was the Hepburn Act?
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It expanded the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and limited the power of the railroad to give free passes
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It limited the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) and expanded the power of the railroad to give free passes
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It expanded the power of the Wobblies and expanded the power of the railroad to give free passes
Questão 5
Questão
What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?
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It created the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and required that all food had proper labels and restricted the sale of certain medications
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It created the Meat Inspection Committee (MIC) and abolished the previously-standing law that food had to have proper labels
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It created the Free Drug Commission, which prohibited the restriction of the sale of certain medications
Questão 6
Questão
What piece of muckraking journalism inspired the passing of the Meat Inspection Act?
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The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
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The Shame of the Cities by Lincoln Steffens
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The History of the Standard Oil Company by Ida Tarbell
Questão 7
Questão
What is considered to be Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring achievement?
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Conservationism
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Conservatism
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Bipartisanism
Questão 8
Questão
What was the Newlands Act?
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The government could use money from the sale of land for irrigation projects
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The government could use money from irrigation project for the sale of land
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The government could use taxpayer dollars for irrigation projects
Questão 9
Questão
What were some causes of the Panic of 1907?
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Overspending, overspeculation, and stock market issues
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Underspeculation and a stock market crash
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The amount of money spent on land conservation, small yet effective farmer rebellions on bank branches
Questão 10
Questão
How did Teddy Roosevelt fix the Panic of 1907?
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JP Morgan purchased Tennessee Iron and Coal Company to support the bank, and it succeeded
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Teddy Roosevelt purchased Tennessee Iron and Coal Company to support the bank, and it succeeded
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William Howard Taft purchased Tennessee Iron and Coal Company to support the bank, and it failed
Questão 11
Questão
Who did Teddy Roosevelt pick to be president after him?
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William Howard Taft
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Andrew Carnegie
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Woodrow Wilson
Questão 12
Questão
What was the Payne-Aldritch Tariff?
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Barely lowered tariff rates at all
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Raised tariffs considerably
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Lowered tariffs considerably
Questão 13
Questão
What important person in Roosevelt's administration did Taft dismiss?
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Gifford Pinchot
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JP Morgan
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Charles Fairbanks
Questão 14
Questão
What was Teddy Roosevelt's new political philosophy (in response to Taft) called?
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New Nationalism
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Old Nationalism
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Reformed Nationalism
Questão 15
Questão
What was included in Roosevelt's philosophy of New Nationalism?
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Increased power of federal government, individual taxes, worker's compensation, and tariff reduction
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Limited power of federal government, fewer taxes, no compensation for workers, and increased tariffs
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Increased power of federal government, individual taxes, no worker's compensations, tariff increase
Questão 16
Questão
What was Teddy Roosevelt's new political party called
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The Progressive/"Bull Moose" Party
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The Laborer's/"Wobbly" Party
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The Conservative/"Cow" Party
Questão 17
Questão
Who won the presidential election of 1912?
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Woodrow Wilson
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William Howard Taft
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Grover Cleveland
Questão 18
Questão
What was the Underwood Tariff?
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Increased tariffs
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Decreased tariffs
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Abolished tariffs
Questão 19
Questão
What was the Federal Reserve Act?
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Increased and decreased the money supply
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Changed to a completely different currency
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Changed to a completely different banking system
Questão 20
Questão
What was the Clayton Antitrust Act?
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It gave more power to the Sherman Antitrust Act and made labor and agricultural unions exempt from it
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It gave less power to the Sherman Antitrust Act and made labor and agricultural unions exempt from it
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It overturned the policies of the Sherman Antitrust Act