Deck 4: From Populism to the Progressive Era, 1900-1912

Question 1

Before the Panama Canal was built, Panama was part of what country?

A) Nicaragua
B) Ecuador
C) Columbia
D) El Salvador
E) Paraguay

Answer 1

Columbia

Question 2

The Boxer Rebellion refers to an uprising among the _________ against foreign profiteers.

A) Japanese
B) Filipinos
C) Puerto Ricans
D) Chinese
E) American Samoans

Answer 2

Chinese

Question 3

Federal legislation banning child labor was passed because (of)

A) advocacy groups informed consumers about the conditions under which children worked.
B) the Great Depression reduced the number of jobs available to working men.
C) women like Florence Kelly traveled the country lecturing on the conditions of working children.
D) lobbying efforts.
E) massive children marches.

Answer 3

the Great Depression reduced the number of jobs available to working men.

Question 4

The idea that scientific study of the production process would reduce wasted time and energy was introduced by

A) Frederick W. Taylor
B) Jacob Riis
C) Ray Stannard baker
D) Emil Seidel
E) Oscar DePriest

Question 5

Which president secured the power for presidents to prevent the sale of federal lands?

A) Theodore Roosevelt
B) William McKinley
C) Woodrow Wilson
D) William Taft
E) William Jennings Bryan

Question 6

By the early 1900s, what percent of corporations produced nearly one half of the nation's manufactured goods?

A) 1%
B) 5%
C) 10%
D) 25%
E) 50%

Question 7

Which amendment outlawed the manufacture, transport and sale of intoxicating liquors?

A) 14th
B) 15th
C) 16th
D) 17th
E) 18th

Question 8

The "Roosevelt Corollary" declared the U.S. would

A) provide economic assistance to her territories and colonies.
B) limit tariffs to her territories and colonies.
C) encourage educational assistance to her territorial colonies and territories.
D) exercise international police power.
E) facilitate citizenship among persons born in her territories and colonies.

Question 9

Court decisions known together as the __________ ruled that the U.S. Constitution did not automatically apply to residents of the U.S. colonies or territories.

A) Insular cases
B) Alien cases
C) Disenfranchisement cases
D) Exclusion cases
E) Organic cases

Question 10

Which is not true of the Progressives?

A) They consisted predominantly of middle-class reformers.
B) They proposed sweeping changes to the capitalist system, such as government ownership of railroads.
C) They believed government should be more active in promoting the welfare of the people.
D) They opposed the laissez-faire of the past.
E) They hoped to reduce government corruption by appointing a new generation of college-educated experts to key government positions.

Question 11

How many construction workers perished during the building of the Panama Canal?

A) 1,000
B) 2,000
C) 5,000
D) 10,000
E) 20,000

Question 12

President William Taft's belief that investing in the Caribbean and South American would help strained U.S. relations is known as

A) Financial Diplomacy.
B) Capital Compromise.
C) Wealth expediency.
D) Monetary Intervention.
E) Dollar Diplomacy.

Question 13

Questions regarding __________ defined Western history during the early twentieth century.

A) railroad monopolies
B) reservations
C) conservation efforts
D) water usage
E) mining

Question 14

The most famous of all muckraking novels and one that generated support for greater regulation of the meat packing industry is

A) Of Mice and Men.
B) Progress and Poverty.
C) Of Human Bondage.
D) The Wasteland.
E) The Jungle.

Question 15

The Prohibition Movement was especially strong in the

A) Northeast
B) South
C) Midwest
D) "A" and "B"
E) "B" and "C"

Question 16

The Hepburn Act of 1906 further regulated

A) oil companies.
B) banks.
C) railroards.
D) manufacturers.
E) all the above.

Question 17

During the 1900 election, Theodore Roosevelt's promise of a "Square Deal" was designed to protect U.S.

A) oil companies.
B) banks.
C) workers and farmers.
D) manufactured exports.
E) minorities.

Question 18

The attempt to eliminate or curb inefficiency in government led to

A) adopting a city commission system.
B) adopting a city manager.
C) public ownership of public utilities
D) publicly-owned water sewer and sanitation departments
E) all the above.

Question 19

"The Wisconsin Idea" is associated with what Wisconsin senator?

A) John Muir
B) Robert LaFollette
C) Gifford Pinchot
D) Ben Tillman
E) Frank Norris

Question 20

Theodore Roosevelt ran for president in 1912 as the candidate of the

A) Progressive Party.
B) Republican Party.
C) Socialist Party.
D) Democrat Party.
E) Populist Party.

Question 21

By 1930, what percentage of the Mexican population had migrated to the United States?

A) 1%
B) 7%
C) 14%
D) 19%
E) 23%

Question 22

By the turn of the century, _________ were the most common businesses.

A) dry goods stores,
B) grocery stores
C) saloons
D) pharmaceutical stores
E) feed stores

Question 23

Woman Rebel author__________ was among the leading advocates of birth control in the early twentieth century.

A) Mary Harris Jones
B) Florence Kelly
C) Margaret Sanger
D) Josephine Lowell
E) Jane Addams

Question 24

What U.S. Supreme Court Case struck down the New York law limiting the workday to 10 hours within bakeries?

A) Lochner v. New York
B) Volestead v. Baltimore
C) Cohens v. Virginia
D) Bradwell v. State of Illinois
E) Hawker v. New York

Question 25

Women's right to vote was secured

A) simultaneously in all U.S. states.
B) first in the Northeast.
C) first in the West.
D) first in the South.
E) first in the East

Question 26

The pseudo science called ________ sought to demonstrate that light-skinned races were more evolved.

A) orientalism
B) eugenics
C) phrenology
D) lysenkoism
E) hermeneutics

Question 27

What ethnic group founded the Anti-Defamation League?

A) Italian
B) Russian
C) Greek
D) Jews
E) Lithuanian

Question 28

Which of the following was not part of the Gentleman's Agreement of 1902?

A) The federal government would not ban Japanese migration.
B) The federal government would ban Japanese migration.
C) The Japanese government would deny visas for all Japanese wishing to travel to the U.S.
D) The federal government persuaded the San Francisco school board to limit segregation to Chinese children.
E) It was an unofficial agreement.

Question 29

During the Great Migration, _________ African Americans migrated from the South to the North.

A) 250,000
B) 500,000
C) 1 million
D) 1.5 million
E) 2 million