Deck 2: 1900-1917: The Progressive ERA

Question 1

Populism flourished among which group(s)?

A) The middle class
B City dwellers
C) Farmers
D) All of the above

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Progressivism flourished among which group(s)?

A) The middle class
B) City dwellers
C) Farmers
D) All of the above

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which was not one of the central issues tackled by Progressives seeking to improve the conditions of factory workers?

A) Regulating the hours and wages of working me
B) Regulating the hours and wages of working women
C) Compensating workers injured on the job
D) Restricting child labor

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Which was not among the features of early-twentieth-century America to which mainstream Progressivism was a response?

A)Racial segregation
B) Urban slums
C) Corporations
D) Municipal corruption

Question 5

How many people lived in New York City in 1910

A) 1 million
B) 3 million
C) 5 million
D) 10 million

Question 6

"Do everything" was the motto of what group?

A) National Congress of Mothers
B) Women's Christian Temperance Union
C) National Federation of Women's Clubs
D) Women's Trade Union League

Question 7

When did New York's shirtwaist strike take place?

A) 1908-1909
B) 1909-1910
C) 1910-1911
D) 1911-1912

Question 8

The Industrial Workers of the World organized a strike in what city

A) Boston
B) Columbus, Ohio
C) Paterson, New Jersey
D) Trenton, New Jersey

Question 9

Muckraker was a name for an individual in what field?

A) Journalism
B) Politics
C) Meatpacking
D) The Law

Question 10

What group opposed Progressive reform?

A) Muckrakers
B) Social Darwinists
C) Women's-rights advocates
D) Liberal Church leaders

Question 11

Which early-twentieth-century Supreme Court Justices supported Progressivism?

A) Louis D. Brandeis
B) Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
C) Roscoe Pound
D) All of the above

Question 12

What was not among the early-twentieth-century anti-immigration arguments mentioned in the text?

A) The new immigrants were less able to assimilate into American society
B) The new immigrants depressed wages
C) The new immigrants could not be adequately cared for
D) The new immigrants retarded the growth of trade unions

Question 13

In 1896, there were how many black voters in Alabama?

A) 60,000
B) 100,000
C) 140,000
D) 180,000

Question 14

In 1904, there were how many black voters in Alabama?

A) 3,000
B) 6,000
C) 9,000
D) 12,000

Question 15

Who was the first president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

A) Oswald Garrison Villgard
B) W.E.B. Dubois
C) Jane Addams
D) Moorfield Storey

Question 16

Theodore Roosevelt's wife died of what disease?

A) Tuberculosis
B) Bright's disease
C) Smallpox
D) Cancer

Question 17

In what year was Theodore Roosevelt elected president?

A) 1896
B) 1900
C) 1904
D) 1908

Question 18

Theodore Roosevelt's first-term policies became known by what expression?

A) The New Deal
B) The Square Deal
C) The Square Deal
D) The New Nationalism

Question 19

In what year did Jack Johnson win the boxing heavyweight title?

A) 1908
B) 1909
C) 1910
D) 1911

Question 20

Who was Theodore Roosevelt's handpicked successor?

A) William H. Taft
B) William Jennings Bryan
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) Robert Dylan

Question 21

Talk About:
-conservation

Question 22

Talk About:
-Jane Addams

Question 23

Talk About:
-muckraker

Question 24

Talk About:
-Muller v. Oregon

Question 25

Talk About:
-NAACP

Question 26

Talk About:
-National Consumers' League

Question 27

Talk About:
-nativism

Question 28

Talk About:
-New Freedom

Question 29

Talk About:
-New Nationalism

Question 30

Talk About:
-Progressivism

Question 31

Talk About:
-prohibition

Question 32

Talk About:
-slum

Question 33

Talk About:
-Square Deal

Question 34

Talk About:
-Theodore Roosevelt

Question 35

Talk About:
-W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 36

Talk About:
-white primary

Question 37

Talk About:
-William H. Taft

Question 38

Talk About:
-woman suffrage movement

Question 39

Talk About:
-Woodrow Wilson

Question 40

What was the relationship between race and social reform in early-twentieth-century America? How did many white progressives justify excluding racial discrimination from the issues to be addressed via social reform? Are the justifications valid? Why or why not? How did black progressives build on the assumptions underlying progressive reform in order to promote calls for racial equality?

Question 41

Was progressivism, taken as a whole, a consistent position, or did it establish arbitrary limits to reform? What groups benefited most from the reforms undertaken by progressives?