Making Judgments Analyze how Taft's leadership led to increasing the power and authority of the federal government.

Use what you have learned about supporting generalizations to examine the data in the table above and to answer the questions below.

Explain the trend in the total value of imports represented on this table.

Explain why Roosevelt left the Republicans and helped form the Progressive party.

Between 1840 and 1870 , the percentage of agricultural workers F more than doubled. G declined. H remained the same. J increased slightly.

Cite two important achievements of William Howard Taft's administration.

Explain Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism program.

Analyzing Political Cartoons Study the cartoon on this page showing President Woodrow Wilson, then answer the questions that follow. a. Do you think the cartoonist has a favorable or unfavorable view of Wilson? Explain. b. What point is the cartoonist making? c. Write a title for the cartoon.

Explain why Roosevelt preferred regulation to trust-busting.

Explain why Wilson had congressional support for his programs.

Re-create the diagram shown here, and list various big-business practices and tactics in the early 1900 s and how each slowed or inhibited economic competition.

Define income tax.

Define rediscount, price-cutting, interlocking directorate.

Read the quotation below and answer the question that follows.

"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." -Thomas Jefferson

1. These words reflect the belief that A freedom is an unattainable goal. B the people of this nation are ignorant. C a system of laws is necessary to maintain freedom. D freedom is not possible when people are uneducated.

Define conservation.