Exam 18: Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915

How did innovations that Henry Ford developed or improved like the assembly line and standardized parts benefit the automobile industry?

Proponents of the Social Gospel like Protestant minister Josiah Strong believed that

How did Theodore Roosevelt and his successor William Howard Taft differ in their dealings with trusts?

The successful passage of the initiative, referendum, and recall by Progressive lawmakers resulted in .

What was one drawback of Frederick Winslow Taylor's scientific management system used at Ford Motor Company to promote efficiency?

What governmental issue was championed, although for different reasons, by both Progressives and socialists?

What made President Theodore Roosevelt's position on the 1902 coal strike in Pennsylvania unique from previous presidential policies regarding labor interests?

Why were Progressives concerned about radical trade unions like the Industrial Workers of the World?

-What does this map imply about the 1912 presidential election?

-What was the likely relationship between Progressive values and the occupations of most Americans, as seen in the pie chart?

-What did the illustrator of this cartoon imply by depicting Standard Oil as an octopus grabbing many different people and objects?

When a female trade-union activist stated that "children need pure milk and good food, good schools and playgrounds, sanitary homes and safe streets," she was implying that this could only happen if .

The Slaughter-House cases (1874) and Lochner v. New York (1905) were anti-Progressive cases in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down .

-How does Jessie Willcox Smith's illustration from her 1909 book The Seven Ages of Childhood contradict what working-class children between the ages of 10 through 15 were experiencing in the early twentieth century?

What did novelist Upton Sinclair mean when he stated that he "…aimed for the public's heart, and by accident…hit it in the stomach," when he was referring to his novel The Jungle?

As a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, .

-What were the positions held by President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir, who are shown on a camping trip in Yosemite in this 1903 photograph, regarding nature and natural resources?

-As a result of the Pure Food and Drug Act that required manufacturers of patent medicines to list all ingredients, what ironic element did female Progressives who widely used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a popular cure-all tonic for women, discover?

How did Progressives react to oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller's statement that "failures which a man makes in his life are due almost to some defect in his personality, some weakness of body, mind, or character, will, or temperament"?

-How does this photograph of a Ford assembly line reflect Henry Ford's statement that "the men do their work and go home-a factory is not a drawing room"?