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#1 Why did Roosevelt think Taft had abandoned progressivism?
He did not lower the tariff and he tried to dismiss Gifford Pinchot. He wasn't as good at communicating his progressive reforms as Roosevelt was.
#2 Who ran as the Republican candidate in the 1912 election?
William Howard Taft
#3 Who was the Democratic candidate in the 1912 election?
Woodrow Wilson
#4 What party did Roosevelt create after he lost the Republican nomination in 1912?
Progressive Party
#5 Who won the election of 1912?
Woodrow Wilson
#6 Why did Wilson end up winning the election of 1912?
Theodore Roosevelt split the Republican party with his Progressive Party.
#7 How did muckrakers help progressive reforms?
They wrote books to expose society's problems.
#8 Name 2 muckrakers.
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens, John Spargo
#9 What Upton Sinclair did write/ what problem was it about?
The Jungle, the gross practices of the meatpacking industry
#10 What did Lincoln Steffens write/what problem was it about?
The Shame of the Cities, urban problems
#11 What did Ida Tarbell write/ what problem was it about?
The History of the Standard Oil Company, the unfair business practices of the Standard Oil Company, a giant trust
#12 What did John Spargo write/ what problem was it about?
The Bitter Cry of the Children, child labor
#13 List 2 changes in religion at the turn of the 20th century,
more interdenominational religious groups (YMCA...); more non-Protestant immigrants; growth in main denominations, new denominations, and cults
#14 Who wrote On the Origin of Species?
Charles Darwin
#15 What theory did On the Origin of Species promote?
evolution
#16 What is a muckraker?
a progressive journalist who exposed society's problems
