Deck 18: The Progressive Era, 1900 -1916

Question 1

MATCHING
Fredrick Taylor

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Answer 1

scientific management

Question 2

MATCHING
Theodore Roosevelt

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Answer 2

Square Deal

Question 3

MATCHING
Bill Haywood

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Answer 3

Industrial Workers of the World

Question 4

MATCHING
Jane Addams

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 5

MATCHING
Upton Sinclair

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 6

MATCHING
Margaret Sanger

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 7

MATCHING
Louis Brandeis

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 8

MATCHING
Federal Reserve Act

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 9

MATCHING
New Nationalism

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 10

MATCHING
Eugene Debs

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 11

MATCHING
settlement house

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 12

MATCHING
Fordism

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 13

MATCHING
Muller v. Oregon

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 14

MATCHING
Sixteenth Amendment

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 15

MATCHING
John Mitchell

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 16

MATCHING
Robert M. La Follette

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 17

MATCHING
John Muir

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 18

MATCHING
Henry Ford

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 19

MATCHING
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A)scientific management
B)birth-control movement
C)Industrial Workers of the World
D)Supreme Court justice
E)Hull House
F)United Mine Workers
G)moving assembly line
H)Wisconsin Progressive
I)Socialist leader
J)Square Deal
K)Women and Economics
L)Sierra Club

Question 20

MATCHING
New Freedom

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 21

During the Progressive era:

A) cities declined in importance.
B) social reformers concentrated their efforts on rural areas.
C) cities attracted only the wealthy.
D) urban development highlighted social inequalities.
E) cities competed with rural areas for government projects.

Question 22

MATCHING
muckraker

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 23

The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on:

A) still life.
B) the abstract.
C) war.
D) city life.
E) nudes.

Question 24

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

A) Henry George.
B) Theodore Dreiser.
C) Upton Sinclair.
D) Ida Tarbell.
E) Lincoln Steffens.

Question 25

Which was the Ellis Island of the West?

A) San Diego
B) Angel Island
C) Alcatraz
D) San Francisco
E) Liberty Island

Question 26

MATCHING
Angel Island

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 27

MATCHING
Appeal to Reason

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 28

Birds of passage were:

A) immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland.
B) single women who worked until they got married.
C) strikebreakers who were sent in by factory owners.
D) stowaways on passenger ships, attempting to immigrate to America.
E) immigrants who visited settlement houses for temporary help.

Question 29

In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from:

A) Japan.
B) China.
C) Mexico.
D) Brazil.
E) Guam,

Question 30

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

A) clustered in the South as agricultural workers.
B) clustered in the West as agricultural workers.
C) were much more welcome than European immigrants.
D) were prohibited from entering the United States.
E) outnumbered southern and eastern European immigrants.

Question 31

Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as:

A) yellow journalists.
B) trustees.
C) social reformers.
D) muckrakers.
E) freelancers.

Question 32

During the Progressive era:

A) new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.
B) overall immigration declined dramatically.
C) the main point of entry for European immigrants was Boston.
D) the vast majority of immigrants came from Ireland.
E) all immigration was banned.

Question 33

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

A) was the worst fire in U.S. history.
B) brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation.
C) destroyed the business, but there were no casualties.
D) occurred during the Uprising of the 20,000.
E) resulted in laws that banned all manufacturing in New York.

Question 34

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

A) as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups.
B) as an anti-business term.
C) denoting a group that appealed only to women.
D) as another term for socialism.
E) and represented those who advocated revolution.

Question 35

Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT:

A) the annexation of the Philippines.
B) industrial expansion.
C) the decline of traditional agriculture.
D) widespread poverty in rural southern and eastern Europe and parts of Asia.
E) political turmoil.

Question 36

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

A) learned English immediately.
B) planned to remain in the United States temporarily.
C) generally earned lower wages in America than in their former homelands.
D) dominated skilled and supervisory jobs.
E) lived in close-knit communities.

Question 37

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

A) big business.
B) farmers.
C) middle-class reformers.
D) military leaders.
E) socialists.

Question 38

During the Progressive era:

A) the American population declined.
B) the economy stagnated.
C) commercial farming grew.
D) commercial farming declined.
E) irrigation had not yet been introduced into the American West.

Question 39

MATCHING
Seventeenth Amendment

A)The Jungle
B)direct election of senators
C)Socialist newspaper
D)limited working hours for women
E)writer or journalist
F)mass production and consumption
G)West Coast immigration center
H)aid to immigrants
I)twelve regional banks
J)Roosevelt's campaign
K)graduated income tax
L)Wilson's campaign

Question 40

All of the following people were "muckrakers" EXCEPT:

A) Lewis Hine
B) Lincoln Steffens
C) Ida Tarbell
D) Samuel Gompers
E) Upton Sinclair

Question 41

During the Progressive era:

A) growing numbers of native-born white women worked as domestics.
B) most African-American women worked in factories.
C) most eastern European immigrant women worked as telephone operators.
D) growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices.
E) the number of married women working declined.

Question 42

Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?

A) the AFL represented skilled workers only.
B) AFL membership tripled between 1900 and 1904.
C) the AFL forged closer ties with corporate leaders to stabilize employee relations.
D) the AFL established pension plans for long-term workers.
E) the AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system.

Question 43

Vaudeville is a:

A) form of entertainment.
B) kind of drink immigrants liked.
C) reform group.
D) place in New York.
E) political machine.

Question 44

The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:

A) Plains Indians and the U.S. army.
B) North Carolina textile workers and the police.
C) the IWW and the Massachusetts police.
D) New Orleans dockworkers and militia.
E) Colorado mine workers and militia.

Question 45

Eugene V. Debs was:

A) a railroad tycoon.
B) a Social Darwinist.
C) an immigrant.
D) a Socialist candidate for president.
E) elected vice president in 1912.

Question 46

Nickelodeons:

A) were patronized only by the wealthy.
B) were banned in most cities.
C) were motion-picture theaters with a five-cent admission charge.
D) never caught on with American consumers.
E) appealed only to children.

Question 47

Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities?

A) school
B) hospital
C) church
D) benevolent society
E) Salvation Army

Question 48

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:

A) Fordism.
B) vertical integration.
C) free-market practices.
D) scientific management.
E) laissez-faire.

Question 49

The 1912 strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts:

A) started when workers demanded shorter hours.
B) is also known as the Bread and Roses strike.
C) is also known as the Uprising of the 20,000.
D) received little public attention.
E) was unique in that it involved only children.

Question 50

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is FALSE?

A) The strike demonstrated that workers sought the opportunity to enjoy the finer things in life.
B) The strike was in response to a reduction in weekly wages.
C) The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance.
D) Children of the striking workers publicly marched up New York's Fifth Avenue.
E) The strike was settled on the workers' terms.

Question 51

By 1912, the Socialist Party:

A) appealed only to immigrants.
B) appealed only to industrial workers.
C) had elected scores of local officials.
D) was concentrated in New York City.
E) had yet to elect a member to Congress.

Question 52

Scientific management:

A) was a way to ensure industrial freedom.
B) was pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor.
C) was welcomed by skilled workers.
D) was introduced by Samuel Gompers.
E) put worker concerns ahead of profit.

Question 53

All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century are true EXCEPT:

A) southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society.
B) the promise of mass consumption became the foundation for a new understanding of freedom.
C) urban-dwellers purchased goods in department stores and chain stores.
D) rural people purchased goods through mail-order catalogs.
E) the new advertising industry often linked goods with the idea of freedom.

Question 54

The term "Fordism":

A) refers to Henry Ford's invention of the automobile.
B) was used by labor unions, who hailed Ford's innovative approach.
C) describes an economic system based on limited production of high-end goods.
D) refers to Henry Ford's effort to organize workers into a union.
E) describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

Question 55

The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":

A) allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power.
B) reflected America's growing interest in socialism.
C) were unrelated to the rise of mass consumption.
D) argued that all Americans should be wealthy.
E) argued that economic and ethical concerns were unrelated.

Question 56

The Industrial Workers of the World:

A) represented skilled workers only.
B) was led by Eugene Debs.
C) organized only women workers.
D) was a union within the American Federation of Labor.
E) advocated a workers' revolution.

Question 57

A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a:

A) dodger.
B) breaker.
C) scum.
D) socialist.
E) scab.

Question 58

In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

A) free college education.
B) legislation to improve the condition of laborers.
C) public ownership of railroads.
D) national health insurance.
E) public ownership of factories.

Question 59

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:

A) higher education.
B) holding political office.
C) the workplace.
D) access to birth control.
E) being a wife and mother.

Question 60

Which person was a Supreme Court justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement?

A) Woodrow Wilson
B) Samuel Gompers
C) Eugene V. Debs
D) Louis Brandeis
E) Theodore Roosevelt

Question 61

Electoral reform during the Progressive era:

A) expanded the electorate significantly.
B) had little impact, especially in the cities.
C) enfranchised African-Americans.
D) actually limited many Americans' right to vote.
E) did away with all residency requirements for voting.

Question 62

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:

A) was led by the American Federation of Labor.
B) was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
C) was not an issue of concern to most workers.
D) was insignificant because the courts consistently supported workers' rights to assemble, organize, and spread their views.
E) was never successful on the local level.

Question 63

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) Samuel Gompers
C) William Howard Taft
D) Louis Brandeis
E) Woodrow Wilson

Question 64

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?

A) Progressives were mainly urban and middle class.
B) Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism.
C) Progressives implemented several of the reforms advocated earlier by Populists.
D) Progressives were involved in a variety of reforms in the political, economic, and social realms.
E) Progressives believed in the spirit of human progress.

Question 65

Margaret Sanger was a:

A) utopian novelist.
B) U.S. senator.
C) prison-reform advocate.
D) birth-control advocate.
E) labor organizer.

Question 66

Founder of the Society of American Indians, Carlos Montezuma:

A) demanded that all Indians be granted partial citizenship.
B) argued that Federal government paternalism improved the lives of American Indians.
C) called for government-sponsored boarding schools.
D) called for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to be run by American Indians.
E) demanded that American Indians be left alone in order to be independent.

Question 67

Jane Addams:

A) was a birth-control advocate.
B) believed in Social Darwinism.
C) advocated for the working poor.
D) was an economist.
E) supported anti-immigrant legislation.

Question 68

Feminism:

A) represented only the struggle for women's suffrage.
B) was concerned only with economic issues.
C) sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women.
D) sought to maintain the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women.
E) argued that women should not have to work.

Question 69

Maternalist reform:

A) opposed women's suffrage.
B) led to generous mother's pensions for all women.
C) sought to redefine the role of mothers.
D) was directed only at black women.
E) was supported by both feminists and more traditional women.

Question 70

President Theodore Roosevelt:

A) believed that the president should side with employers during labor disputes.
B) helped striking coal miners to negotiate a favorable settlement with their employers.
C) opposed direct federal regulation of the economy.
D) opposed the creation of national parks.
E) proposed to weaken the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Question 71

All of the following statements about Urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:

A) They worked to reform the structure of government.
B) They sought to establish public control of gas and water works.
C) They raised taxes to increase spending on schools and parks.
D) They sought to improve public transportation.
E) They worked with political machines.

Question 72

What Progressive-era issue became a crossroads where the paths of labor radicals, cultural modernists, and feminists intersected?

A) trust-busting
B) the initiative and referendum
C) women's suffrage
D) unionism
E) birth control

Question 73

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

A) regulating industry.
B) women's suffrage.
C) prohibiting alcohol.
D) civil rights for blacks.
E) reducing the poverty of the cities.

Question 74

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

A) demanded less economic regulation.
B) supported the interests of big business.
C) supported the conservation movement.
D) dismantled the Interstate Commerce Commission.
E) established the Federal Reserve system.

Question 75

Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

A) utilizing primary elections to select candidates.
B) taxing corporate wealth.
C) regulating railroads and utilities.
D) drawing on nonpartisan university faculty.
E) using political bosses to staff his administration.

Question 76

All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT:

A) Hull House and other settlement houses provided careers for the "new woman."
B) Addams built kindergartens for immigrant children.
C) Hull House was modeled on a settlement house in London.
D) Addams established employment bureaus and health clinics.
E) Addams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar.

Question 77

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

A) maintained an increasingly elitist approach.
B) included both middle- and working-class women.
C) stagnated.
D) was most successful in the Northeast.
E) was fought only on the federal level.

Question 78

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

A) big-city-machine politicians
B) the urban middle class
C) women
D) muckraker journalists
E) white Protestants

Question 79

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

A) the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution.
B) the use of primary elections among party members to select candidates.
C) the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
D) the popular election of judges.
E) literacy tests and residency requirements.

Question 80

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

A) refused to limit work hours for male bakers.
B) argued that women were too weak to work long hours.
C) outlawed child labor for children under the age of sixteen.
D) gave labor the right to strike.
E) validated the liberty of contract.