Deck 19: Visions of the Modern Nation: the Progressive Era, 1900-1912

Question 1

The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine justified __________.

A) American intervention in China
B) assassination attempts on foreign leaders
C) American intervention in Latin American countries
D) the use of tariffs as a tool of American diplomacy

Answer 1

American intervention in Latin American countries

Question 2

More than any previous president, Roosevelt used the federal government to __________.

A) decrease income inequality
B) reduce crime
C) manage the natural world
D) improve race relations

Answer 2

manage the natural world

Question 3

Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" sought to stabilize the economy and institute social reforms by __________.

A) giving power back to the states
B) deregulating key industries
C) funding private charity organizations
D) expanding the size and scope of the federal government

Answer 3

expanding the size and scope of the federal government

Question 4

Prior to becoming president, Theodore Roosevelt served as __________.

A) Secretary of War
B) mayor of Boston
C) Grover Cleveland's vice president
D) governor of New York

Question 5

__________ argued that "Dollar Diplomacy" was the best way for the United States to exert influence in the world.

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) William Howard Taft
C) Calvin Coolidge
D) Alfred Thayer Mahan

Question 6

In an effort to advance the Panama canal project, Theodore Roosevelt __________.

A) aided Panamanian nationalists in their uprising against Colombia
B) sent troops to Colombia and Venezuela
C) had the president of Colombia assassinated
D) lied to the public about the true cost of the canal

Question 7

Why was Taft skeptical about Roosevelt's extensions of the powers of the presidency?

A) They had proved unpopular.
B) He thought they might be unconstitutional.
C) They had upset the balance among the branches of government.
D) They had been used to appease imperialist powers in the Pacific.

Question 8

In 1900, Roosevelt sent U.S. troops to __________ to crush the Boxer uprising.

A) China
B) Japan
C) the Philippines
D) Guam

Question 9

How did William Howard Taft differ from Theodore Roosevelt?

A) He initiated far more antitrust suits than Roosevelt.
B) He wanted to expand the powers of the presidency.
C) He was a fierce advocate of the use of military force.
D) He refused to support the Payne-Aldrich Tariff.

Question 10

Which of the following best characterizes Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy?

A) He was a strong supporter of American involvement around the world.
B) He was a strident isolationist.
C) He preferred "Dollar Diplomacy" to the use of military force.
D) He wanted to withdraw from Latin America so that the United States could focus on Asia.

Question 11

In the "Gentlemen's Agreement" of 1907, the __________ government agreed to limit the number of immigrants to the United States.

A) Japanese
B) Chinese
C) Mexican
D) Italian

Question 12

In the early twentieth century, the ______________ was home to the greatest concentration of foreign-born residents.

A) Northeast
B) upper Midwest
C) Southeast
D) Northwest

Question 13

The Bull Moose platform called for __________.

A) less government intervention in the economy
B) women's suffrage
C) a temperance amendment to the Constitution
D) equal rights for blacks

Question 14

What impact did Upton Sinclair hope his novel The Jungle would have?

A) He hoped it would lead to improved hygiene in meat packing plants.
B) He hoped it would turn the country toward socialism.
C) He hoped it would contribute to anti-immigrant sentiment.
D) He hoped it would turn the country toward vegetarianism.

Question 15

In 1910, Roosevelt promoted a plan called the "New __________."

A) Nationalism
B) Freedom
C) Deal
D) Day

Question 16

Between 1900 and 1910, nearly __________ immigrants entered the United States.

A) 500,000
B) 2 million
C) 9 million
D) 50 million

Question 17

Which of the following immigrant groups was least likely to return to their native land?

A) Russian Jews
B) Italian agricultural workers
C) Balkan laborers
D) Spanish factory workers

Question 18

Roosevelt used the Sherman Anti-Trust Act to __________.

A) break up monopolies
B) bankrupt the railroads
C) punish his Democratic opponents
D) increase transparency in government

Question 19

What led Theodore Roosevelt to issue the Roosevelt Corollary?

A) German aggression in Africa
B) Japanese imperialism
C) the threat of revolution in China
D) fear of political uprisings in Latin America

Question 20

___________'s The Jungle depicted the brutal exploitation of immigrant workers in the meat packing industry.

A) Mark Twain
B) Frank Norris
C) Ida B. Tarbell
D) Upton Sinclair

Question 21

Why was Thomas Edison's kinetoscope significant?

A) It led to the motion picture industry.
B) It led to the telephone.
C) It led to the light bulb.
D) It led to improvements in medical diagnosis.

Question 22

The vast majority of Jewish immigrants to the United States came from _______________.

A) western Europe
B) eastern Europe
C) southern Europe
D) northern Europe

Question 23

Which of the following led many Japanese to immigrate to Brazil?

A) Japan declared war on China.
B) The U.S. cut off all diplomatic relations with Japan.
C) Brazil actively recruited Japanese immigrants.
D) The United States and Japan forged the "Gentlemen's Agreement."

Question 24

Which of the following best explains why the number of Chinese people living in the United States declined dramatically between 1890 and 1920?

A) the passage of the Chinese Exclusion Act
B) political turmoil in China
C) economic hard times in the United States
D) the forced deportation of Asian Americans

Question 25

Ida Tarbell wrote a powerful exposé of the ruthless business practices of _________.

A) Jay Gould
B) J. P. Morgan
C) John D. Rockefeller
D) Andrew Carnegie

Question 26

Boston marriages were __________.

A) lifelong unions between two women
B) marriages of convenience
C) encouraged by most moral reformers
D) most common among the lower classes

Question 27

Why did Henry Ford embrace the industrial techniques developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor?

A) He wanted to improve the lives of his workers.
B) He wanted to make his factories more efficient.
C) He wanted to improve his public image.
D) He wanted to increase the size of his workforce.

Question 28

The first motion picture audiences were drawn mainly from the __________.

A) rural laboring classes
B) urban elite
C) middle classes
D) urban working classes

Question 29

In 1907, __________ became the first state to enact a eugenic sterilization law.

A) Kentucky
B) California
C) Massachusetts
D) Indiana

Question 30

In addition to calling attention to the needs of the disabled, Helen Keller was a passionate advocate of __________.

A) women's rights
B) temperance
C) free markets
D) wilderness conservation

Question 31

Most Progressive reformers were __________.

A) members of the working classes
B) labor activists
C) recent immigrants
D) Protestants

Question 32

__________'s 1900 novel Sister Carrie narrates the story of an independent young woman who uses her sexuality to advance her ambition.

A) Theodore Dreiser
B) Upton Sinclair
C) F. Scott Fitzgerald
D) Virginia Woolf

Question 33

Which of the following was true of child labor in late nineteenth-century America?

A) Most child workers were employed in small shops and stores.
B) Efforts to restrict child labor were most successful in northern states.
C) Child labor had all but disappeared.
D) Child labor was ignored by Progressive reformers.

Question 34

Eugenicists claimed that social problems resulted from __________.

A) the high birthrate of immigrants
B) poor public schools
C) governmental indifference
D) economic inequality

Question 35

Who did Theodore Roosevelt call on to prevent race suicide?

A) Anglo-Saxon men
B) Eastern European immigrants
C) Anglo-Saxon women
D) the people of western Europe

Question 36

__________ was an expert in the field of industrial efficiency.

A) Frank Bunker Gilbreth
B) Frederick Winslow Taylor
C) Upton Sinclair
D) Lincoln Steffens

Question 37

Most Italian immigrants were __________.

A) Orthodox Christian
B) Lutheran
C) Methodist
D) Roman Catholic

Question 38

The eugenics movement was influenced by which of the following?

A) theories of white racial supremacy
B) the growth of the Populist Party
C) the depression of 1893
D) the push to develop overseas markets

Question 39

Why were incidents of typhoid fever reduce by 70 percent in the early years of the twentieth century?

A) improvements in public sanitation
B) expanded transportation networks
C) limits on immigration
D) discovery of a new vaccine

Question 40

The Supreme Court decision in Muller v. Oregon affirmed the principle of __________.

A) protective legislation for women
B) one person, one vote
C) equal protection under the law
D) separate but equal accommodations

Question 41

Progressives believed that __________.

A) American capitalist democracy was fundamentally sound
B) only socialism could save America
C) America was a perfect country
D) genuine progress was almost impossible to achieve

Question 42

Ida B. Wells and __________ worked together to prevent the establishment of segregated schools in Chicago.

A) Jane Addams
B) Frederick Douglass
C) Booker T. Washington
D) Susan B. Anthony

Question 43

In 1911 fire in the __________ resulted in the death of 146 people.

A) Homestead steel factory
B) Triangle Shirtwaist Company
C) Henry Ford automobile plant
D) Swift meatpacking plant

Question 44

What explains the influx of Jewish immigrants between 1880 and 1920?

Question 45

What steps did Theodore Roosevelt take to protect and preserve America's natural world?

Question 46

Eugene Debs rose to fame as a result of which of the following?

A) his appointment by Theodore Roosevelt to a cabinet post
B) his arrest following the Haymarket bombing
C) his involvement in the Homestead strike
D) his involvement in the 1894 railroad strike

Question 47

Discuss the role of socialism in American politics and the labor movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Question 48

The militancy of the suffrage movement in __________ inspired American activists to develop new tactics and international alliances.

A) Sweden
B) Germany
C) England
D) France

Question 49

How did Henry Ford revolutionize automobile production?

Question 50

Which of the following had a strong influence on the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People?

A) the Niagara Movement
B) the Seneca Falls conference
C) the labor movement
D) the temperance movement

Question 51

Clara Lemlich began her career as a __________ at an early age.

A) stage actress
B) moral reformer
C) temperance activist
D) labor activist

Question 52

Which of the following was true of the early twentieth-century women's suffrage movement?

A) It was led by men.
B) It was most successful in the South.
C) It was largely a movement of white middle-class women.
D) It was at odds with the larger Progressive movement.

Question 53

The __________ was formed in 1905 by socialists and labor militants.

A) Industrial Workers of the World
B) Knights of Labor
C) American Federation of Labor
D) Congress of Industrial Organizations

Question 54

In 1905 W. E. B. Du Bois joined with other black leaders to form the __________.

A) Southern Christian Leadership Council
B) Council on Racial Equality
C) Niagara Movement
D) Congressional Black Caucus