Government Reforms

GOVERNMENT REFORMS

1.______local government that has a number of commissions to run the city. Was formed after a hurricane in Texas

2. ______local government run like a corporation

3. ______local services own by the city.

VOTING REFORMS

1.  ______people elect the candidates running for each party

2.  ______the people start bills in state governments

3.  ______the people vote on laws in local and state gov.

4.  ______the people get rid of politicians during their terms

5.  ______people elect their senators (12th amend)

6.  ______the first progressive governor elected (in Wis.)

WOMEN”S RIGHTS

1.  ______were granting voting rights to women in local and state elections

2.  ______- ______- ______were suffragettes and leaders in the women’s movement

CONSUMER REFORMS

3.  ______- rules on pricing and treatment by insurance companies

4.  ______- rules dealing with areas of the city to keep up property values

5.  ______- rules on how buildings should be built

6.  ______checks the safety of food and drugs

LABOR REFOMS

1.  ______court case that allowed states to limit working hours for women

2.  ______- laws that protected children in the work place

3.  ______16th amend ( allowed taxes on income)

4.  ______- name for a monopoly

5.  ______- law that tried to regulate trusts ( it didn’t work)

6.  ______- name for outlawing alcohol (18th amend)

TEDDY ROOSEVELT

1.  ______war he made a name for himself

2.  ______He was V.P. for him and became president after his assassination

SQUARE DEAL

1.  ______name of his reform program

2.  ______using the office to get things done

3.  ______what he used to end the coal strike of 1902

4.  ______his term for breaking up bad trusts

5.  ______book by Upton Sinclair that exposed immigration and meat packing evils

6.  ______- ______were 2 laws passed by Teddy because the this book

7.  ______- term for protecting the natural resources because big business was polluting and destroying to much

8.  ______- ______2 things he did that helped protect the land

9.  ______he was elected after Roosevelt

10.  ______- ______2 things he did better than Roosevelt

11.  ______the thing he did that made people angry

12.  ______the party of Roosevelt when he ran for a third term

13.  They believed in ______(federal power expanded to protect the public)

14.  ______he was the Democrat running

15.  ______name of Wilson’s program

16.  ______- ______- ______the 3 things in had in the program

17.  ______the reason Wilson wins the election