Deck 19: The Progressive Era, 1900-1917

Question 1

Jane Addams:

A)sought fulfillment as a wife and mother.
B)founded Hull House.
C)focused on ending prostitution and avoided challenging the power of political bosses.
D)devoted her life to the cause of women's suffrage.

Answer 1

founded Hull House.

Question 2

Educational professionals sought to reform schools by:

A)reducing the role of school boards.
B)having voters elect superintendents to increase accountability.
C)refusing to place children who could not keep up with their peers in special classes.
D)requiring all teachers to hold graduate degrees.

Answer 2

reducing the role of school boards.

Question 3

The Social Gospel Movement:

A)grew out of the reform wing of the Republican Party.
B)suggested that if people followed Jesus' teachings, they would reform society.
C)concerned itself with private morality and ignored the problems of the poor.
D)was bitterly denounced by Catholics.

Answer 3

suggested that if people followed Jesus' teachings, they would reform society.

Question 4

Margaret Sanger attracted wide attention in 1916 when she:

A)became the first female head of a corporation.
B)became the first member of the Women's Army Corps.
C)announced her candidacy for Congress.
D)went to jail for teaching women about birth control.

Question 5

Who were the muckrakers?

A)Journalists who published stories exposing the corruption of business and politics.
B)Opponents of the Panama Canal.
C)The leaders of the IWW.
D)Social workers in the settlement house movement.

Question 6

Robert La Follette led:

A)a political machine that successfully fought off reform.
B)Wisconsin Progressives.
C)Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives.
D)a business revolt against high taxes and government regulation.

Question 7

Which piece of reform legislation directly resulted from muckraking efforts?

A)Sherman Anti-Trust Act
B)Meat Inspection Act
C)Mann Act
D)Interstate Commerce Act

Question 8

City planning represented:

A)a chance for political machines to increase their control.
B)the Progressives' distrust of centralized authority.
C)fears that working-class neighborhoods might spread into more affluent neighborhoods.
D)a willingness to give government greater control over private property.

Question 9

Opponents of women's suffrage claimed that:

A)women should not take leadership roles in society.
B)voting would corrupt women.
C)immigrants would not come to a country where women had equal rights.
D)most universities did not train women in understanding politics.

Question 10

In the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908), the Supreme Court ruled that:

A)women were entitled to have greater protection in the workplace than men.
B)the Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee the right to vote for women.
C)businesses do not have to provide maternity leave for their female employees.
D)women are entitled to half of a family's assets following a divorce.

Question 11

During the 1910s, the suffrage movement

A)mobilized women of all ages and socioeconomic classes.
B)relied more heavily than ever on the educated middle class.
C)gained an increasingly African American leadership.
D)began to be dominated by men.

Question 12

Which statement describing African Americans during the Progressive Era is most accurate?

A)By and large, they accepted their second-class position with little protest.
B)Mob violence against them continued to be unchecked.
C)They allied with southern white progressives and challenged disfranchisement and segregation laws.
D)Thousands of African Americans in northern cities moved to the rural South.

Question 13

Which statement about W. E. B. Du Bois is most accurate?

A)Although he was a highly regarded black leader, he was virtually illiterate.
B)He urged that black people think of themselves as human beings and pay no attention to irrelevant characteristics like skin color.
C)He refused to work with white people.
D)He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership and urged black people to demand their rights.

Question 14

The victims of Southern lynchings, Ida B. Wells pointed out, also included

A)white women.
B)children
C)successful black businessmen.
D)priests.

Question 15

Hazen Pingree and "Golden Rule" Jones advocated:

A)city ownership of utilities.
B)laissez-faire government.
C)black suffrage.
D)Prohibition.

Question 16

Which of the following was not a progressive reform of urban politics?

A)citywide elections of city councils
B)the city commission system
C)the direct primary
D)the city manager plan

Question 17

Historians use the term "progressivism" to signify all of the following, EXCEPT:

A)the emergence of new concepts of the purposes and functions of government.
B)changes in government policies and institution.
C)a trend in the Democratic Party.
D)political agitation that produced institutional change.

Question 18

Most progressives

A)looked suspiciously at the Socialists.
B)looked to Socialists for support.
C)made Socialists one of their main targets.
D)had been Socialists at one point or another.

Question 19

As governor of California, Hiram Johnson:

A)repealed laws that discriminated against Asian immigrants.
B)ordered the San Francisco city government thrown out of office.
C)was an uncompromising opponent of corporate influence in politics.
D)stayed in power because of the Southern Pacific Railroad's money.

Question 20

By the late 19^th century, advocates of Prohibition:

A)concentrated on getting their message into school curriculums.
B)worried more about getting people to drink moderately than stop altogether.
C)tried to persuade people to quit drinking on moral grounds.
D)tried to use the power of government to make people stop using alcohol.

Question 21

The Sixteenth Amendment:

A)banned the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States.
B)required the election of U.S. senators directly by the voters of each state.
C)gives the federal government the authority to tax income.
D)established universal female suffrage.

Question 22

Louis Brandeis convinced Woodrow Wilson to center his 1912 presidential campaign on which issue?

A)Big business threatens democracy
B)Foreign policy
C)Conservation
D)Women's suffrage

Question 23

Which industry was the first target of Theodore Roosevelt's trustbusting campaign?

A)manufacturing.
B)mining.
C)meatpacking.
D)railroads.

Question 24

What was NOT a provision of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?

A)The United States purchased the assets of the French company that had begun the canal.
B)Panama became an American protectorate.
C)The United States received control of the canal zone in perpetuity.
D)the United States paid Colombia $10 million for Panamanian independence.

Question 25

As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson:

A)took a hands-off approach to leadership.
B)shocked party leaders by embracing reform issues.
C)developed a reputation as a conservative.
D)eliminated the corrupt state board of education.

Question 26

As an interest group, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM):

A)attached itself to the Republican Party.
B)allied itself with the American Federation of Labor (AFL)to advance workplace regulation.
C)in 1904 targeted and defeated two key pro-labor members of Congress.
D)advocated for temperance as well as high tariffs for manufacturers.

Question 27

Which of the following terms best describes Wilson's approach to monopolies in his "New Freedom"?

A)laissez-faire
B)regulation
C)government ownership
D)anti-trust action

Question 28

The New Nationalism:

A)was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Woodrow Wilson.
B)helped to unite Republicans around the candidacy of William Howard Taft.
C)was used as a rationale for Roosevelt to "take" the Panama Canal.
D)was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

Question 29

Progressives endorsed the initiative and the referendum because they:

A)reduced the power of lobbyists.
B)allowed voters to pass laws without going through potentially corrupt legislative bodies.
C)ensured that only experts would participate in policy making.
D)granted special favors to interest groups.

Question 30

"Dollar diplomacy" was:

A)an amendment attached to the Federal Reserve Act of 1914.
B)the Taft Administration's policy of supporting U.S. investments abroad.
C)an outgrowth of the Federal Trade Commission.
D)used by the United States to purchase the rights from Great Britain to build a canal through Central America.

Question 31

The Underwood Act:

A)banned monopolistic business practices such as interlocking directorates.
B)created a presidential commission to investigate illegal business practices.
C)was enacted by Congress in 1914 to regulate aspects of banking.
D)was enacted by Congress in 1913 to substantially reduce tariffs.

Question 32

Who was Theodore Roosevelt's chief advisor on conservation issues?

A)John Muir
B)Gifford Pinchot
C)Lincoln Steffens
D)Richard Ballinger

Question 33

Which statement best describes Theodore Roosevelt's views on trusts?

A)Trusts are a threat to democracy and should be broken up whenever possible.
B)Trusts are an evil, albeit a necessary evil.
C)Trusts are potentially beneficial, but they need regulation.
D)Trusts reflect the survival of the fittest and should be left alone.

Question 34

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913:

A)was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
B)allows bankers to control the nation's money supply.
C)turned the national banking system into a socialist enterprise.
D)provided some regulation for the nation's banking system.

Question 35

Theodore Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike (1902):

A)reflected his "hands-off" view toward business matters.
B)helped win the strikers fair treatment and higher wages.
C)produced a showdown between the army and the strikers.
D)supported the owners' decision to break the union.

Question 36

Which of the following was NOT part of the "direct democracy" reforms?

A)direct primary
B)referendum,
C)Australian Ballot.
D)recall.

Question 37

The Hepburn Act

A)banned child labor.
B)set maximum hours for female workers.
C)allowed the ICC to establish maximum railroad rates.
D)created the Federal Reserve System.

Question 38

The Roosevelt Corollary:

A)granted the United States sovereignty over the Canal Zone in return for a $10 million payment.
B)proclaimed the right of the United States to police the Caribbean areas.
C)was the Roosevelt Administration's policy of supporting U.S. investments abroad.
D)was an executive order by Roosevelt to limit Japanese emigration to the United States.

Question 39

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which European nation especially sought to improve relations with the United States?

A)Germany
B)France
C)Britain
D)Russia

Question 40

Which of the following is NOT true about the Federal Reserve System?

A)It was established as a "bankers' bank."
B)The chair of the Federal Reserve was to be chosen in national elections every six years.
C)Participating banks named two thirds of its board of directors.
D)All national banks were required to belong to the system.

Question 41

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Anthracite coal strike (1902)

Question 42

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 43

The Clayton Antitrust Act (1914):

A)led to the prosecution of hundreds of powerful corporations.
B)called for regulating rather than breaking up big business.
C)allowed the federal government to prosecute big labor.
D)led to the destruction of the Farmers Alliance.

Question 44

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Social Gospel

Question 45

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Robert La Follette

Question 46

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Jeanette Rankin

Question 47

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Margaret Sanger

Question 48

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
City manager plan

Question 49

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Settlement houses

Question 50

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Industrial Workers of the World

Question 51

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 52

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
The Jungle

Question 53

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
local option laws

Question 54

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Muckrakers

Question 55

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
lobbyists

Question 56

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Hiram Johnson

Question 57

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

Question 58

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Muller v. Oregon

Question 59

Ash Can School Artists:

A)shared a focus on urban life.
B)emphasized the artist's impression of a subject.
C)painted murals in numerous public buildings throughout the United States during the Progressive Era.
D)fought tirelessly for social reforms.

Question 60

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
National American Woman Suffrage Association

Question 61

What was the role of women in the Progressive movement?

Question 62

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Clayton Antitrust Act

Question 63

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
New Freedom

Question 64

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
preservationist

Question 65

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Roosevelt Corollary

Question 66

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Bull Moose Party

Question 67

To what extent did Progressivism fail to help minorities?

Question 68

Ask students to analyze how Woodrow Wilson, through legislation, effectively constructed a number of stabilizing mechanisms for corporate capitalism.

Question 69

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Question 70

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Sixteenth Amendment

Question 71

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty

Question 72

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Gifford Pinchot

Question 73

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Seventeenth Amendment

Question 74

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Federal Reserve Act

Question 75

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Dollar diplomacy

Question 76

In what ways was a model leader for state-level Progressivism?

Question 77

How did Theodore Roosevelt expand American influence in world affairs?

Question 78

Instructions: Identify the following terms:
Square Deal