Exam 20: The Progressives

While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that

The middle-class women's club movement confined itself to working on middle-class issues.

In the early twentieth century, eugenics

Many progressives believed that knowledge was more important than anything else as a vehicle for reforming human society.

By 1911, the Women's Christian ________ Union had 245,000 members and had become the single largest women's organization in American history to that point.

President Roosevelt showed that he could occasionally take on the role of a trustbuster in his action against the Northern ________ Company.

During the progressive era, the Socialist Party of America

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken

During the progressive era, the women's club movement

As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt

The urban political machine Tammany Hall grew increasingly interested in progressive reform during the progressive era.

Describe and evaluate the ideas of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. In your opinion, which of these two men had the better plan, and why?

In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for

In what ways was Theodore Roosevelt a progressive reformer, consistent with the progressivism of his time?

The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff

The urban political machine was a good source of jobs for newer immigrants.

At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists

All of the following were progressive reformers from western states EXCEPT

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of