Deck 21: The Republican Progressives in Power

Question 1

Workers' compensation was

A)rejected by the state legislature in both 191l and 1913.
B)employer liability for industrial accidents.
C)one reform about which progressives and labor union leaders profoundly disagreed.
D)an archaic doctrine of common law.

Answer 1

employer liability for industrial accidents.

Question 2

Woman suffrage in California was adopted in

A)1879 under the revised state constitution.
B)1896 under a state supreme court decision.
C)1911 under a state constitutional amendment.
D)1920 under the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S.Constitution.

Answer 2

1911 under a state constitutional amendment.

Question 3

The 1906 order to segregate Japanese public school children in San Francisco

A)affected nearly 1,000 Japanese students in the city.
B)was severely criticized by the California progressives.
C)led to a diplomatic crisis between the U.S.and Japan.
D)remained in effect until the 1930s.

Answer 3

led to a diplomatic crisis between the U.S.and Japan.

Question 4

Allen Allensworth was the

A)founder of an all-black town in Tulare County.
B)leader of an anti-Japanese league in Fresno County.
C)president of the California Anti-Saloon League.
D)organizer of a movement to relocate African Americans from California to Louisiana.

Question 5

Under a 1911 California constitutional amendment all public officials--including judges--were made subject to recall by the voters.

Question 6

Laura de Force Gordon

A)was one of the first women to practice law in California.
B)lobbied the legislature to allow women to be admitted to the bar.
C)helped found the California Woman Suffrage Association.
D)all of the above

Question 7

Women gained the right to vote in California mainly because

A)woman suffrage enjoyed strong support from Hiram Johnson.
B)woman suffrage was supported strongly by the progressive movement as a whole.
C)the Nineteenth Amendment was added to the Constitution.
D)a number of able and determined California women had campaigned for woman suffrage for decades.

Question 8

Most of the people who organized the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republicans were from the

A)urban working class.
B)urban upper middle class.
C)most wealthy elements of California society.
D)farming regions of the state.

Question 9

The Southern Pacific Railroad vigorously opposed the 1911 railroad regulation law.

Question 10

Jefferson Edmonds

A)founded the Liberator.
B)headed the Afro-American Council of Los Angeles.
C)rose to the highest military rank of any African American.
D)none of the above

Question 11

A major force contributing to the decline of the progressive movement in California was

A)Theodore Roosevelt's strong criticism of California progressive reforms.
B)a decline in Hiram Johnson's popularity among voters.
C)personal quarreling among progressive leaders.
D)Hiram Johnson's pro-Japanese sentiment.

Question 12

The referendum enabled voters to

A)enact laws or constitutional amendments.
B)veto acts of the legislature.
C)recall public officials.
D)remove newly initiated members of the judiciary.

Question 13

Governor Hiram Johnson was

A)more sympathetic toward organized labor than many of his fellow Republican progressives.
B)not supported by union members in the election of 1914.
C)of the opinion that unionism was a temporary evil.
D)openly hostile toward labor unions.

Question 14

The California progressives had a strong faith in the political abilities of "the people".

Question 15

Support for the women's suffrage amendment was

A)strongest in San Francisco and Oakland.
B)undercut by opposition from the Los Angeles Friday Morning Club.
C)far higher in working-class than middle-class districts.
D)all of the above

Question 16

The initiative and referendum were examples of progressive reforms

A)limiting the direct participation of the people in lawmaking.
B)emphasizing the importance of "representative" government.
C)increasing the direct participation of the people in lawmaking.
D)opposed by Governor Hiram Johnson.

Question 17

The 1913 alien land law

A)was supported by President Wilson.
B)was opposed by most California Republican progressives.
C)prohibited all persons of Japanese ancestry from owning land in California.
D)had loopholes which allowed many Japanese to avoid its impact.

Question 18

The recall enabled voters to veto acts of the state legislature.

Question 19

The Johnson-Reed National Origins Quota Act of 1924

A)established an annual 20 percent quota of foreign nationals residing in the United States in 1920.
B)prohibited all further immigration from Japan.
C)permitted immigration of East Asians of "high caliber."
D)ordered the expulsion of all "undocumented aliens."

Question 20

The cross-filing system

A)was rejected by state voters in 1913.
B)permitted a candidate to be the nominee of more than one political party.
C)restricted candidates to file in only one primary.
D)required candidates to list their party affiliation on primary ballots.

Question 21

The attitude of California progressives toward liquor and gambling was surprisingly tolerant.

Question 22

The California progressives strongly opposed a state minimum wage law for women and children.

Question 23

Describe the role of women in California's reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Cite specific examples.

Question 24

Explain the major reforms achieved by the Republican progressives in California.

Question 25

The California progressives supported legislation to improve the working conditions of the state's farm labor.

Question 26

What were the major reasons for the decline of progressivism in California?

Question 27

Explain Hiram Johnson's role in the California progressive movement.What role did his personal leadership and popularity play in the success of the state's progressive reformers?

Question 28

The California legislature enacted legislation in the early 1900s which banned Japanese "picture brides" from entering the state.

Question 29

The "cross-filing" system seriously weakened the political party system in California.

Question 30

What was the relationship between the progressive leaders and the anti-Japanese movement in California? What rationalizations and political considerations motivated them to support this movement?

Question 31

Both organized labor and the California progressives were hostile toward Japanese immigrants in California.