Speaker of the House who helped pass the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act

Which of the following roles did William Howard Taft serve in before becoming President of the United States?

How did the direct election of senators change the balance of power between state legislatures and the federal government?

How did the Supreme Court rule in the case of Northern Securities v. The United States, and what was the significance of this decision for Roosevelt's presidency?

Which acts were passed in 1906 as a response to concerns about food safety, and what did they aim to regulate?

Who was elected governor of Wisconsin and pushed for political reform during the Progressive Era?

Also known as the "Bull Moose Party", this political party was formed by Theodore Roosevelt in an attempt to advance progressive ideas and unseat President William Howard Taft in the election of 1912.

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Taft's Secretary of the Interior, allowed a private group of business people to obtain several million acres of Alaskan public lands

How did Taft's approach to the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act differ from the advice given to him by Roosevelt, and what were the consequences of his actions?

This 1906 law used the Interstate Commerce Commission to regulate the maximum charge that railroads to place on shipping goods.

What were the key differences between Roosevelt's 'New Nationalism' and Wilson's 'New Freedom' toward economic reform?

Explain how progressive reformers addressed the issue of child labor in the early 1900s.

a federal agency established in 1914 to investigate and stop unfair business practices

muckraker who shocked the nation when he published The Jungle, a novel that revealed gruesome details about the meat packing industry in Chicago. .

The most influential of the state-level progressive governors and a presidential aspirant in 1912

A system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls the means of production.

Interracial organization founded in 1909 to abolish segregation and discrimination and to achieve political and civil rights for African Americans.

a set of tax regulations, enacted by Congress in 1909, that failed to significantly reduce tariffs on manufactured goods

an election in which voters choose party nominees

the right to vote

a 1913 law that set up a system of federal banks and gave government the power to control the money supply

Which reform allowed voters to demand a special election to remove an elected official from office before their term expired?

Early 1900's muckraker who exposed social and political evils in the U.S. with his novel "How The Other Half Lives"; exposed the poor conditions of the poor tenements in NYC

A law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages