Exam 20: The Progressives

Louis Brandeis and Herbert Croly agreed that bigness in business had to be eradicated.

While running for the presidency in 1912,Woodrow Wilson presented a progressive program that came to be called the "New ________."

Woodrow Wilson helped create the Federal Reserve system as part of his effort to end trusts.

The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

In 1909,a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot saw

Unlike Roosevelt,who wanted to destroy the major trusts,Wilson sought to accept their existence but use the federal government to regulate them.

During the progressive era,the "new woman" was a product of

Why was William Howard Taft an unpopular president? Why did Roosevelt challenge him in 1912?

In the election of 1908,William Howard Taft

W.E.B.Du Bois was highly critical of Booker T.Washington's philosophy.

In 1912,Theodore Roosevelt was reluctant to become a candidate for president because

During the progressive era,some professionals used their entrance requirements to exclude blacks,women,immigrants,and other "undesirables" from their ranks.

In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.

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

All of the following were progressive reformers from western states EXCEPT

During the progressive era,the women's club movement

Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot,voter ballots were printed and distributed by

New York's major political machine,________,eventually helped advance progressive reform.