Question 1

Which of the following describes a significant difference between William Howard Taft's presidency and that of Theodore Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

A)  Unlike Roosevelt, Taft refused to compromise with business leaders. 
B)  Taft believed it was up to the courts, not the president, to arbitrate social issues. 
C)  Unlike Roosevelt, Taft wanted to strengthen the powers of the executive branch. 
D)  Taft completely ignored the tariff issue, which was the hallmark of the Roosevelt administration. 
A)  Unlike Roosevelt, Taft refused to compromise with business leaders. 
B)  Taft believed it was up to the courts, not the president, to arbitrate social issues. 
C)  Unlike Roosevelt, Taft wanted to strengthen the powers of the executive branch. 
D)  Taft completely ignored the tariff issue, which was the hallmark of the Roosevelt administration.

Question 2

What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?

Accepted Answer

A)  Communism as the only way to save America 
B)  The creation of one big union of unskilled workers to create social change 
C)  A government takeover of private enterprise in order to spread the wealth 
D)  That men and women liberate themselves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery 
A)  Communism as the only way to save America 
B)  The creation of one big union of unskilled workers to create social change 
C)  A government takeover of private enterprise in order to spread the wealth 
D)  That men and women liberate themselves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery

Question 3

According to Map 21.3: The Election of 1912, which of the following statements is true?

Accepted Answer

A)  Woodrow Wilson won the majority of the electoral and popular votes. 
B)  Woodrow Wilson won the majority of the electoral votes, but Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote. 
C)  The Socialist Party candidate won eight electoral votes. 
D)  Overall, the Republican Party received the least amount of votes. 
A)  Woodrow Wilson won the majority of the electoral and popular votes. 
B)  Woodrow Wilson won the majority of the electoral votes, but Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote. 
C)  The Socialist Party candidate won eight electoral votes. 
D)  Overall, the Republican Party received the least amount of votes.

Question 4

Which of the following describes President Taft's "dollar diplomacy" in the Caribbean?

Accepted Answer

A)  It set commercial rather than strategic goals. 
B)  It attempted to increase U.S. influence in the region by hiring nationals and paying them U.S. dollars. 
C)  It differed little from President Roosevelt's policies in the region. 
D)  It offered Caribbean nations a favorable rate of exchange with the United States. 
A)  It set commercial rather than strategic goals. 
B)  It attempted to increase U.S. influence in the region by hiring nationals and paying them U.S. dollars. 
C)  It differed little from President Roosevelt's policies in the region. 
D)  It offered Caribbean nations a favorable rate of exchange with the United States.

Question 5

Why did Margaret Sanger promote birth control in the 1910s?

Accepted Answer

A)  She believed that the United States was perilously close to being overpopulated. 
B)  She believed it would usefully alter social and political power relationships. 
C)  She owned shares in several drug companies and hoped to make more profits. 
D)  She believed it was an issue she could use to win a seat in Congress. 
A)  She believed that the United States was perilously close to being overpopulated. 
B)  She believed it would usefully alter social and political power relationships. 
C)  She owned shares in several drug companies and hoped to make more profits. 
D)  She believed it was an issue she could use to win a seat in Congress.

Question 6

The Hepburn Act (1906) marked the first time that

Accepted Answer

A)  the federal government attempted to curb the power of the railroads. 
B)  the Republicans were able to pass a major piece of regulatory legislation. 
C)  a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and to set prices. 
D)  the railroads admitted that they had engaged in unfair and discriminatory business practices. 
A)  the federal government attempted to curb the power of the railroads. 
B)  the Republicans were able to pass a major piece of regulatory legislation. 
C)  a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and to set prices. 
D)  the railroads admitted that they had engaged in unfair and discriminatory business practices.

Question 7

Compare Theodore Roosevelt's "big-stick" foreign policy to William Howard Taft's "dollar diplomacy."

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Roosevelt'

Question 8

The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stigmatized

Accepted Answer

A)  middle-class white women. 
B)  the Protestant clergy. 
C)  the Irish, Italians, and Germans. 
D)  those who refused to drink alcohol. 
A)  middle-class white women. 
B)  the Protestant clergy. 
C)  the Irish, Italians, and Germans. 
D)  those who refused to drink alcohol.

Question 9

What groups were excluded from progressive reforms at the beginning of the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

Anti-Asian bigotry in the West led to a

Question 10

To compensate for the revenue that would be lost as a result of the new Underwood tariff, in 1913 the House of Representatives passed

Accepted Answer

A)  an act permitting Wilson to request money from J. P. Morgan. 
B)  federal taxes on liquor and cigarettes. 
C)  the federal income tax. 
D)  the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. 
A)  an act permitting Wilson to request money from J. P. Morgan. 
B)  federal taxes on liquor and cigarettes. 
C)  the federal income tax. 
D)  the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Question 11

What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?

Accepted Answer

A)  A strike by women garment workers in New York City who were protesting low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union 
B)  A strike by steelworkers in Pennsylvania who were protesting low wages and inhumane working conditions 
C)  A walkout of public-school students in Boston who were protesting the physical conditions of the schools 
D)  A nationwide walkout of workers in the meatpacking industry who were protesting unsanitary working conditions and low wages 
A)  A strike by women garment workers in New York City who were protesting low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union 
B)  A strike by steelworkers in Pennsylvania who were protesting low wages and inhumane working conditions 
C)  A walkout of public-school students in Boston who were protesting the physical conditions of the schools 
D)  A nationwide walkout of workers in the meatpacking industry who were protesting unsanitary working conditions and low wages

Question 12

One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to

Accepted Answer

A)  close municipal buildings one hour before sundown to conserve electricity. 
B)  reduce Cleveland's streetcar system's fare from five cents to three cents. 
C)  use a fare increase on the city's streetcars to retire the city's skyrocketing debt. 
D)  privatize the city's gasworks in order to make central heating available to the Cleveland's working-class population. 
A)  close municipal buildings one hour before sundown to conserve electricity. 
B)  reduce Cleveland's streetcar system's fare from five cents to three cents. 
C)  use a fare increase on the city's streetcars to retire the city's skyrocketing debt. 
D)  privatize the city's gasworks in order to make central heating available to the Cleveland's working-class population.

Question 13

What did President Roosevelt believe was the best way to deal with trusts in the first decade of the twentieth century?

Accepted Answer

A)  Break up as many as possible 
B)  Break them up and then allow them to reorganize along federal guidelines 
C)  Allow them to continue but with federal government regulation 
D)  Allow them to continue and to operate as they chose 
A)  Break up as many as possible 
B)  Break them up and then allow them to reorganize along federal guidelines 
C)  Allow them to continue but with federal government regulation 
D)  Allow them to continue and to operate as they chose

Question 14

Briefly discuss the primary personal and political differences between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Theodore R

Question 15

In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson

Accepted Answer

A)  introduced the direct primary but failed to strengthen the state's railroad commission. 
B)  published his book, The Octopus, that criticized the Southern Pacific Railroad. 
C)  supported conservation, the initiative, referendum, and recall. 
D)  vetoed both the direct primary and recall. 
A)  introduced the direct primary but failed to strengthen the state's railroad commission. 
B)  published his book, The Octopus, that criticized the Southern Pacific Railroad. 
C)  supported conservation, the initiative, referendum, and recall. 
D)  vetoed both the direct primary and recall.

Question 16

Match the term with the definition.
-Early-twentieth-century style of journalism that exposed the corruption of big business and government. Theodore Roosevelt coined the term after a character in Pilgrim's Progress.

Accepted Answer

A) birth control movement 
B) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 
C) muckraking 
D) The New Freedom 
E) The New Nationalism
F)Plessy v. Ferguson
G)progressivism
H)reform Darwinism
I)Roosevelt Corollary
J)settlement houses
K)social gospel
L)Socialist Party 
A) birth control movement 
B) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) 
C) muckraking 
D) The New Freedom 
E) The New Nationalism
F)Plessy v. Ferguson
G)progressivism
H)reform Darwinism
I)Roosevelt Corollary
J)settlement houses
K)social gospel
L)Socialist Party

Question 17

How did President Theodore Roosevelt's insistence on regulating the trusts change the relationship between business and government? Cite an example of that change.

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
Bad Trusts

Question 18

Why did progressives launch the social purity movement?

Accepted Answer

A)  To regulate the food industry 
B)  To attack prostitution and other vices 
C)  To advocate the use of birth control among immigrants 
D)  To clean up corrupt urban politics 
A)  To regulate the food industry 
B)  To attack prostitution and other vices 
C)  To advocate the use of birth control among immigrants 
D)  To clean up corrupt urban politics

Question 19

Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?

Accepted Answer

A)  It incorporated his belief in federal planning and the regulation of big business. 
B)  It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets. 
C)  It was based on the notion that centralized government was the most effective means of broadening democracy. 
D)  It was very similar to Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism. 
A)  It incorporated his belief in federal planning and the regulation of big business. 
B)  It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets. 
C)  It was based on the notion that centralized government was the most effective means of broadening democracy. 
D)  It was very similar to Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism.

Question 20

The progressives that influenced the United States between 1890 and 1916 were

Accepted Answer

A)  reformers with a broad agenda of concerns. 
B)  poorly educated urbanites intent on Americanizing immigrants. 
C)  reformers who advocated the full separation of church and state. 
D)  women who sought to legislate morality. 
A)  reformers with a broad agenda of concerns. 
B)  poorly educated urbanites intent on Americanizing immigrants. 
C)  reformers who advocated the full separation of church and state. 
D)  women who sought to legislate morality.

Exam 21: Progressivism From the Grass Roots to the White House

Which of the following describes a significant difference between William Howard Taft's presidency and that of Theodore Roosevelt?

What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?

According to Map 21.3: The Election of 1912, which of the following statements is true?

Which of the following describes President Taft's "dollar diplomacy" in the Caribbean?

Why did Margaret Sanger promote birth control in the 1910s?

The Hepburn Act (1906) marked the first time that

Compare Theodore Roosevelt's "big-stick" foreign policy to William Howard Taft's "dollar diplomacy."

The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stigmatized

What groups were excluded from progressive reforms at the beginning of the twentieth century?

To compensate for the revenue that would be lost as a result of the new Underwood tariff, in 1913 the House of Representatives passed

What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?

One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to

What did President Roosevelt believe was the best way to deal with trusts in the first decade of the twentieth century?

Briefly discuss the primary personal and political differences between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft.

In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson

Match the term with the definition. -Early-twentieth-century style of journalism that exposed the corruption of big business and government. Theodore Roosevelt coined the term after a character in Pilgrim's Progress.

How did President Theodore Roosevelt's insistence on regulating the trusts change the relationship between business and government? Cite an example of that change.

Why did progressives launch the social purity movement?

Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?

The progressives that influenced the United States between 1890 and 1916 were

Ancient America Before

Europeans Encounter the New World

The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century

Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century

The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis

The War for America

Building a Republic

The New Nation Takes Form

Republicans in Power

The Expanding Republic

The New West and the Free North

The Slave South

The House Divided

The Crucible of War

Reconstruction

The Contested West

Railroads, Business, and Politics in the Gilded Age

The City and Its Workers

Dissent, Depression, and War

World War I: the Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad

From New Era to Great Depression

The New Deal Experiment

The United States and the Second World War

Cold War Politics in the Truman Years

The Politics and Culture of Abundance

Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction

Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus

America Moves to the Right

The Promises and Challenges of Globalization Since

Citizenship, Indian Removal, Equality, Women's Rights, Native American Relations, Slavery, Religion, Labor, Westward Expansion, and North-South Differences.

Historical Perspectives on American Politics and Society

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