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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APUSH CHAPTER 29
EXAM QUESTIONS
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Question 1: "rule of reason"
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under the Sherman Act, contracts or conspiracies are illegal only if they constitute an unreasonable restraint of trade or an attempt to monopolize
Question 2: Elkins Act
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imposed heavy fines on railroads that gave rebates and on the shippers that accepted them; 1903
Question 3: RIchard Ballinger
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Secretary of State who opened public lands in the West during the Ballinger-Pinchot quarrel in 1912
Question 4: Meat Inspection Act
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1906; decreed that the preparation of meat shipped over state lines would be subject to federal inspection
Question 5: Upton SInclair
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wrote "The Jungle", an exposé of Chicago's meatpacking industry
Question 6: Payne-Aldrich Act
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1909; a protective act that placed a high tariff on many imports
Question 7: Frances Willard
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founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union; allied with the Anti-Saloon League
Question 8: Theodore Dreiser
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a novelist who used blunt prose to banter promoters and profiteers in The Financer (1912) and The Titan (1914)
Question 9: dollar diplomacy
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Taft's foreign policy in which he replaced "bullets with dollars" and involved investors instead of the military
Question 10: Muckrakers
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journalists who sometimes exaggeratedly exposed political corruption or incorrectly covered controversial events
Question 11: Sierra Club
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oldest and largest grassroots environmental association; founded by John Muir in 1892
Question 12: Jacob Riis
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author of "How the Other Class Lives", a "damning indictment of the slums", which was published in 1890; it influenced Roosevelt
Question 13: Ida Tarbell
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exposed the Standard Oil Company in a very factual exposé
Question 14: Triangle Shirtwaist fire
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exposed the true extent of the bad conditions in many factories; many people died, mostly women
Question 15: Muller v. Oregon
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1908; Louis
- Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court to accept the constitutionality of laws protecting women
workers by presenting evidence of the harmful effects of factory labor
Question 16: Newlands Act
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1902; authorized the federal government to collect money from the sale of public lands in western states and use these funds for the development of irrigation products
Question 17: Henry Demarest Lloyd
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author of "Wealth Against Commonwealth", which was published in 1894
Question 18: Robert M. LaFolette
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a progressive governor from Wisconsin who returned power to the people and regulated public utilities
Question 19: Gifford Pinchot
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TR's chief forester; believed "wilderness was waste"; wanted to use resources intelligently
Question 20: 17th Amendment
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established direct election of senators; passed in 1913
Question 21: conservation
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wanted to preserve nature and forests
Question 22: Women's Trade Union League
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made up of both working class and wealthy women; formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labor unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions
Question 23: Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
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Secretary of State Richard Ballinger vs. Gifford Pinchot; Ballinger opened public lands in Wyoming, Montana, and Alaska; he was criticized by Pinchot
Question 24: John Muir
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famed naturalist of the Sierra Club
Question 25: Florence Kelley
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Illinois' first chief factory inspector
Question 26: Lochner v. New York
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1905; Supreme Court invalidated a NY law establishing a 10-hour workday for bakers
Question 27: Hepburn Act
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free passes were severely restricted; it expanded the Interstate Commerce Commission to include express companies, sleeping car companies, and pipelines; 1906
Question 28: Northern Securities Case
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Roosevelt challenged the most powerful and wealthy company led by Morgan and Hill; in 1904 the Supreme Court ordered the company to be dissolved, a decision that jolted Wall St. and enhanced TR's popularity