Deck 16: The Reform Impulse: the Progressive Era, 1895-1920

Question 1

The Department of Justice brought a lawsuit to break up the Northern Securities Company resulting from mergers in what industry? ​

A)Steel
B)Railroads
C)​Oil 
D)​Banking

Answer 1

Railroads

Question 2

Which of the following statements regarding the 1912 election accurately reflects the perspective of the Democratic Party? ​

A)It looked to exploit the split in the Republican Party.
B)It considered William Jennings Bryan a viable candidate because of his previous campaign experience.
C)​It considered Woodrow Wilson as a possible candidate because he had captured the governorship of New York.
D)​It seriously considered offering Theodore Roosevelt the vice-presidential nomination.

Answer 2

It looked to exploit the split in the Republican Party.

Question 3

The Payne-Aldrich Tariff called for lowering duties on ​

A)lumber and cattle hides.
B)cotton and wool.
C)​grains.
D)​tobacco.

Answer 3

lumber and cattle hides.

Question 4

What Wisconsin politician was the leading symbol of state reform during the Progressive Era? ​

A)Robert M.LaFollette
B)D.W.Griffith
C)​Woodrow Wilson
D)​Theodore Roosevelt
E)​William Jennings Bryan

Question 5

What legislation enforced Prohibition? ​

A)the Hepburn Act
B)the Mann Act
C)​the Twenty-First Amendment
D)​the Volstead Act
E)​the Webb-Kenyon Act

Question 6

What did the Newlands Reclamation Act establish in the West? ​

A)a system of irrigation reservoirs 
B)a system of reservation lands
C)​new interconnected rail lines 
D)​guidelines for mining operations

Question 7

The Great Migration refers to the movement of African Americans to ​

A)Midwestern farms
B)the Pacific Coast
C)​Canada 
D)​Northern cities

Question 8

The 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v.Ferguson declared which of the following practices legal?

A)Polygamy
B)Segregation
C)​Prohibition
D)​Compulsory education
E)​Interracial marriage

Question 9

Which changes took place in the U.S.family in the early 1900s? ​

A)States revoked laws making homosexuality illegal.
B)Divorce was easier to obtain and more common.
C)​The average size of the family increased.
D)​Some states legalized abortion. 

Question 10

What was the label applied to investigative reporters who sought to expose government corruption and social ills? ​

A)Muckrakers
B)Yellow journalists
C)​Sensationalists
D)​Rationalists

Question 11

What organization advocated a socialist agenda that would culminate in the end of capitalism? ​

A)American Federation of Labor
B)Industrial Workers of the World
C)​National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
D)​Women's Trade Union League

Question 12

In 1912,Theodore Roosevelt ran as the presidential candidate of the Bull Moose Party,which was officially known as the ​

A)Socialist Party.
B)American Party.
C)​Progressive Party.
D)​Know-Nothing Party.
E)​People's Party.

Question 13

What was the first state to adopt prohibition? ​

A)New Jersey
B)Oregon
C)​Florida
D)​Georgia
E)​Oklahoma

Question 14

The Birth of a Nation,a popular 1915 film by D.W.Griffith,glorified ​

A)the Industrial Workers of the World
B)the Ku Klux Klan
C)​the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People 
D)​the Wilson Administration  

Question 15

What retailer founded in 1893 built a solid reputation among rural Americans to whom it sold a wide range of mail-order goods via an annual catalog? ​

A)Macys
B)Sears,Roebuck and Company
C)​J.C.Penney
D)​WalMart

Question 16

Who was Theodore Roosevelt's hand-picked successor for the presidency? ​

A)Gifford Pinchot
B)Warren G.Harding
C)​Henry Stimson
D)​William Jennings Bryan
E)​William Howard Taft

Question 17

Ida Wells Barnett concentrated her reform efforts on which of the following? ​

A)temperance
B)lynching
C)​tenement housing
D)​child labor
E)​sanitation

Question 18

Regulations related to which of the following stemmed at least in part from Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel,The Jungle? ​

A)food safety
B)child labor
C)​workplace safety
D)​civil rights

Question 19

Which legislation came first? ​

A)Clayton Antitrust Act
B)Federal Reserve Act
C)​Hepburn Act
D)​Sherman Antitrust Act 

Question 20

Margaret Sanger is best known for advocating which of the following? ​

A)abstinence from alcohol
B)birth control 
C)​equal rights for African Americans
D)​municipal reform

Question 21

The Hepburn Act increased government's control over the country's railroads.​

Question 22

Woodrow Wilson won the Democratic Party's 1912 presidential nomination on the very first ballot.​

Question 23

What was the focus of the Sixteenth Amendment? ​

A)It provided for separate but equal public facilities.
B)It allowed an income tax.
C)​It guaranteed women the right to vote in federal elections.
D)​It provided for the direct election of senators.
E)​It established Prohibition.

Question 24

The NAACP was founded in 1909 to end segregation and guarantee voting rights for blacks.​

Question 25

Which statement regarding the new Progressive Party led by Theodore Roosevelt in the early 1900s is false? ​

A)It welcomed African Americans into its fold.
B)It advocated a protective tariff.
C)​It proposed a commission to supervise the trusts.
D)​It supported women's suffrage.

Question 26

​The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire spurred reform efforts in industry.

Question 27

​What was the purpose of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

A)to replace the central bank with regional banks
B)to reduce the power of the Federal Reserve Board
C)​to facilitate trade between the United States and its neighbors
D)​to provide a means for controlling the currency and money supply

Question 28

What did Woodrow Wilson call his 1912 campaign platform that was based on promoting competition and enforcing antitrust laws? ​

A)Gilded Deal
B)New Freedom
C)​New Nationalism
D)​Square Deal

Question 29

Which government agency was established in 1914 to oversee business practices? ​

A)Federal Trade Commission
B)Federal Reserve System
C)​Interstate Commerce Commission
D)​Keating-Owen Committee