The Elusive Eden

Chapter Eighteen
Progressive California

1. Who was Abraham Rueff?
2. Who was Bill Higgins?
3. Who were Martin Kelly and Phil Crimmins?
4. What was the importance of the Republican primaries in 1901?
5. What was the San Francisco Employers Association and what was the conflict with the Teamsters?
6. Who was James Phelan?
7. What was the Union Labor Party?
8. Who was Eugene Schmitz?
9. What were “French Restaurants” and the “Municipal Crib?”
10. How were the Pacific Gas and Electric, the United Street Railway Company and the Spring Valley Water Company related to San Francisco politics?
11. What was the importance of Fremont Older and the Bulletin?
12. Who was Rudolph Spreckles and how was he related to San Francisco politics?
13. Who were Theodore Roosevelt, William J. Burns, and Francis J. Heney and how were they related San Francisco politics?
14. What resulted fron a San Francisco Grand Jury in 1906?
15. Why was Hrancis J. Heney replaced by Hiram Johnson?
16. Why did there a Democratic gubernatorial failures in 1902 and 1906?
17. Who were William Randolph Hearst, Franklin K. Lane, and Theodore Bell?
18. Who were George C. Pardee and James N. Gillett?
19. How did railroad interests influence California politics?
20. What was the importance of Charles and James McClatchy, and the Sacramento Bee, Chester H. Rowell and the Fresno Republican, Harrison Grey Otis and the Los Angeles Times and Edwin T Earl and the Los Angels Express?
21. What was the importance of Frank Norris and The Octopus?
22. What was the connection between Chester H. Rowell, Edward Dickson and the Southern Pacific? Connection
23. What were “Lincoln Republicans?”
24. What were the Lincoln-Roosevelt League and associated clubs?
25. What were 1908 pro-Roosevelt delegates?
26. What was the call for popular non-binding votes for Senators?
27. What was the all for direct primaries?
28. Who was Hiram Johnson and who supported him?
29. Who was the “Western Theodore Roosevelt?”
30. Why did Hiram Johnson agree to run for governor?
31. Who was J. Stitt Wilson?
32. Who was Robert M. LaFollette?
33. What was the Johnson Progressive program and was it anti-business?
34. What was the Stetson-Eshelman Act and the Hepburn Act?
35. What was the Public utilities Act?
36. What powers did the PUC have and who controlled it?
37. What was the The Bank Act?
38. What were the Australian ballot, the Initiative, the Referendum, and the Recall?
39. What were Non-Partisanship and Cross-filing?
40. Who was Katherine Philips Edison?
41. What was the Los Angeles Woman Suffrage League?
42. When did women receive the vote in California and what progressive reform was use to implement it?
43. What were the Representative Assembly of Trade and Labor Unions and the Employer’s Association of San Francisco?
44. What was the Merchants’ and Manufacturers Association or (M&M) Eminem?
45. What was the American Federation of Labor?
46. Who was H. Gaylord Wilshire?
47. Who was Jack London?
48. Who was Eugene Debs?
49. What was the Los Angeles Times Bombing?
50. Who were John and James McNamara?
51. Who was Clarence Darrow?
52. What was the open shop principle?
53. What was the Law and Order Committee?
54. What was the Preparedness day bombing and when did it happen?
55. Were Progressives pro-labor?
56. What were the Employer Liability Act, the Industrial Accident Board, and the Industrial Welfare Commission?
57. What did organized labor want?
58. What was the Compulsory Arbitration Bill?
59. What were Strike injunctions, “Black lists,” and “yellow-dog” contracts?
60. Who was Emma Goldman?
61. What were the Industrial Workers of the World?
62. What were the “Wobblies?”
63. What were the Free Speech cases of 1910?
64. What was the Wheatland riot of 1913?
65. What was the Labor Camp Act of 1915?
66. What were the Asiatic Exclusion League, “The Gentlemen’s Agreement,” and the Alien Land Act?
67. Who were the Native Sons of the Golden West and the American Legion?
68. How did the Bolshevik Revolution and A. Mitchell Palmer “Palmer Raids” influence California?
69. What was the Criminal Syndication Act?
70. Who was Charlotte Anita Whitney?
71. According to the Elusive Eden hat events marked the beginning and ending of California’s progressive era?
72. What was the Red Light Abatement Act?