Deck 21: The Progressive Era

Question 1

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Jane Addams

Answer 1

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Question 2

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Coney Island, amusement parks

Answer 2

Answer not provided.

Question 3

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Daniel Burnham

Answer 3

Answer not provided.

Question 4

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Muckrakers

Question 5

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Anti-Saloon League

Question 6

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Louis Brandeis

Question 7

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Jim Crow laws

Question 8

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White-collar class

Question 9

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Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Question 10

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Florence Kelley

Question 11

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Robert La Follette

Question 12

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John Dewey

Question 13

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Frederick W. Taylor's Principles of Scientific Management

Question 14

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Frank Norris, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, David Graham Phillips

Question 15

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Movies

Question 16

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Progressive Movement

Question 17

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William James

Question 18

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Municipal health reform

Question 19

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Herbert Croly

Question 20

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Mann Act

Question 21

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Pure Food and Drug Act, Meat Inspection Act

Question 22

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Eugene V. Debs and the Socialist Party of America

Question 23

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
"Big Bill" Haywood and the Industrial Workers of the World

Question 24

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Alice Paul, National Woman's Party

Question 25

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Carrie Chapman Catt, National American Woman Suffrage Association

Question 26

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Question 27

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Ida Wells-Barnett

Question 28

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Danbury Hatters case

Question 29

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United Mine Workers Strike of 1902

Question 30

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Hepburn Act

Question 31

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 32

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation

Question 33

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Northern Securities Company

Question 34

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Theodore Roosevelt

Question 35

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W. E. B. Du Bois

Question 36

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Question 37

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Brownsville Incident

Question 38

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Gifford Pinchot

Question 39

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The Passing of the Great Race

Question 40

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Margaret Sanger

Question 41

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Eighteenth Amendment

Question 42

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Seventeenth Amendment

Question 43

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Federal Trade Commission Act

Question 44

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Nineteenth Amendment

Question 45

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Muller v. Oregon , Louis Brandeis

Question 46

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Federal Reserve Act

Question 47

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Clayton Anti-Trust Act

Question 48

Which of the following statements concerning progressives is not correct?

A) Because progressivism sprang from the American reform tradition, its assumptions and goals were identical to those of earlier movements.
B) Progressives transformed America's political and social landscape.
C) Progressive reformers were often moralistic
D) Progressivism focused little attention on racial problems.
E) Progressives were interested in a variety of reforms.

Question 49

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
William Howard Taft

Question 50

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Election of 1912

Question 51

Which of the following statements does not accurately describe Black Americans in the early 20^th century?

A) Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were key black leaders.
B) Lynchings were quite common, with anywhere from 50 to 70 occurring each year.
C) Most Progressives believed that improving Black American rights should be a high priority.
D) Black Americans typically could not vote.
E) William Lloyd Garrison led a campaign against lynchings.

Question 52

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Hetch Hetchy

Question 53

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act)

Question 54

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, what was the greatest source of urban population growth?

A) The exodus from rural and small-town America
B) The increasing birthrate within the cities themselves
C) Immigration
D) Medical advances that ended the major urban diseases
E) Improvements in sanitation

Question 55

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Sixteenth Amendment

Question 56

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff

Question 57

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Keating-Owen Act

Question 58

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Progressive Party

Question 59

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Ballinger-Pinchot controversy

Question 60

Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term.
Woodrow Wilson

Question 61

Where was the American Federation of Labor's main source of strength?

A) Factories and mills
B) Skilled trades
C) Farm workers
D) Immigrant blue collar workers
E) Urban white-collar workers

Question 62

Which of the following is not a true statement about the muckrakers?

A) They were among the earliest investigative journalists.
B) They sought to expose political and corrupt corruption.
C) They got their nickname - muckrakers - from Woodrow Wilson, who criticized them for only focusing on the worst aspects of American life.
D) They inspired middle class reformers with their stories of the horrible conditions in industrial America.
E) Their ranks included artists whose work conveyed the underbelly of America.

Question 63

How did the Ballinger-Pinchot debate influence the relationship between Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft?

A) It proved to Roosevelt that Taft was worthy to be his successor.
B) It showed that even out of office Roosevelt had more power than Taft.
C) It widened the rift between Roosevelt and Taft.
D) It revealed that making jokes about Taft's weight would lead to tensions between the two men.
E) It provided evidence of the growing divisions within the Republican Party.

Question 64

In his bid for the presidency in 1912, Eugene Debs proposed

A) collective ownership of large industries, banks and transportation systems.
B) a stronger Interstate Commerce Commission.
C) environmental conservation and reform.
D) the end of a graduated income tax.
E) All of these choices

Question 65

Which of the following court case is correctly paired with its significance?

A) Northern Securities case: declared the Federal Reserve Bank of the Northwest to be in violation of Interstate Commerce Commission rules.
B) Lochner v. New York : Upholds a state sterilization law.
C) Muller v. Oregon : Struck down a law restricting working hours for female laundry workers.
D) Standard Oil Co. v. U.S. : Orders dissolution of Standard Oil.
E) Buck v. Bell : Overturns law setting maximum working hours for bakery workers.

Question 66

In The Jungle , Upton Sinclair exposed the corruption in

A) the oil refining industry.
B) the steel industry.
C) the railroads industry.
D) the meatpacking industry.
E) the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Question 67

What happened to the white-collar middle class in the United States from 1900 to 1920?

A) It more than doubled in size and grew at over twice the rate than the work force as a whole during the same period.
B) Its size remained about the same, but its influence declined dramatically in proportion to the rest of the population.
C) It disappeared because the changing nature of the American economy required mainly blue-collar workers.
D) Although it was growing dramatically, it was not growing as fast as the work force as a whole.
E) It turned away from national professional organizations and exercised its influence locally.

Question 68

Why did the number of professional organizations, and their membership, increase markedly during the first two decades of the twentieth century?

A) The middle class viewed such organizations as the best way to impress the old aristocratic families.
B) Such organizations provided a sense of professional identity for the white-collar middle class.
C) Such organizations helped to provide the middle class with an entrée into local political organizations.
D) Many professions were on the decline and formed organizations to protect themselves.
E) Until the twentieth century, professional organizations were looked upon as badges of shame or poverty.

Question 69

How did the tactics of Alice Paul's National Woman's Party differ from Carrie Chapman Catt's National American Woman's Suffrage Association?

A) Paul's followers used petitions to persuade Congress of the injustices committed against women.
B) Paul's followers used a letter writing campaign to pressure President Wilson.
C) Paul's organization rejected a state by state approach and worked to pressure Congress to enact a woman suffrage constitutional amendment.
D) Paul's followers used the power of prayer to gain God's intervention.
E) Paul's followers exchanged sexual favors with members of Congress for support.

Question 70

In the early twentieth century, how did many middle-class women begin to view employment outside the home?

A) as a badge of shame.
B) as a way of keeping the divorce rate down.
C) as a potential opportunity.
D) as the only way to survive in the new economy.
E) as always isolating.

Question 71

Which of the following was an antiprostitution measure that prohibited transporting a woman across state lines for" immoral purposes?"

A) Mann-Elkins Act
B) Mann Act
C) Hepburn Act
D) Keating Owen Act
E) Adamson Act

Question 72

According to John Dewey, schools need to

A) teach self-reliance, hard work, and honesty.
B) serve as the handmaidens of industry by teaching subjects that were most needed by the business world.
C) become the engines of social change.
D) preserve the role of the teacher as the unquestioned authority.
E) guard against experimentalism.

Question 73

Which of the following does not describe the African American experience in the early twentieth century?

A) They faced segregation in schools, parks, cemeteries and street cars under the Jim Crow laws.
B) More than half of black women held jobs by 1910.
C) Many southern blacks headed north in search of jobs and better opportunities.
D) Conditions improved in the North, which had little racism.
E) Blacks were increasingly moving from farms to cities.

Question 74

What did the writings of Thorstein Veblen, William James, and Herbert Croly have in common?

A) They formed the intellectual and ideological foundations of Social Darwinism.
B) They were the most prominent examples of the intellectual assault on progressivism that began around 1920.
C) They implicitly supported the need for far-reaching reforms of American society.
D) They were misread by progressives to mean that socialism was the nation's only hope of social reform.
E) They provided the intellectual and legal arguments used to support Jim Crow laws.

Question 75

Which statement about the progressive movement is correct?

A) Progressives wanted to restrain big business and protect the economically vulnerable.
B) Most progressives rejected the capitalist system, preferring a system based on cooperation for the good of the whole community.
C) Like the earlier populist movement, the progressive movement was primarily agrarian-based.
D) Progressives respected civil liberties so highly that they rejected any legislation that dealt with people's personal morals such as their sexual activities, drinking, and choice of entertainment.
E) Progressives tended to prefer the laissez-faire principles of William Graham Sumner.

Question 76

What did Frederick Taylor argue?

A) Businesses should adopt progressive reforms in an effort to make business more humane.
B) Business could increase efficiency by standardizing job routines and rewarding the fastest workers.
C) Businesses should combine several competing corporations into one larger holding company.
D) Corporations should narrow the scope of their business so that they could focus on the core areas they understood best.
E) Corporations should provide workers with better wages and working conditions in an effort to prevent government regulation or outside unionization.

Question 77

John Muir is best known for his work in

A) ending child labor in factories.
B) protecting the purity of American food.
C) preserving America's wilderness areas.
D) fighting the railroads for greater passenger safety.
E) lobbying for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

Question 78

Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

A) The Sixteenth Amendment permits Congress to apportion and collect income taxes.
B) The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.
C) The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
D) The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote for women.
E) They are all accurately defined.

Question 79

What happened to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act?

A) The president never signed it into law.
B) After the president signed it, it strictly limited the number of children able to work.
C) The Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional.
D) After it passed, a number of southern states refused to accept its legality.
E) It profoundly changed America's immigration policies.

Question 80

In 1910, approximately what percentage of the nation's children between the ages of ten and fifteen worked outside the home?

A) 1%
B) 95%
C) 15%
D) 75%
E) 50%