Deck 7: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Thorstein Veblen

Answer 1

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Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eugene V. Debs

Answer 2

Answers will vary. ​

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jacob Riis

Answer 3

Answers will vary. ​

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Florence Kelley

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jack London

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Robert M. La Follette

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Jane Addams

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hiram Johnson

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Gifford Pinchot

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Jennings Bryan

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
John Muir

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Upton Sinclair

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ray Stannard Baker

Question 14

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Frances Willard

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Theodore Dreiser

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Henry Demarest Lloyd

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Louis D. Brandeis

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lincoln Steffens

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ida Tarbell

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lillian Wald

Question 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Richard Ballinger

Question 22

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
preservationism

Question 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"separate spheres"

Question 24

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Victor L. Berger

Question 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
conservation

Question 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
recall

Question 27

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"white slave" traffic

Question 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
dollar diplomacy

Question 29

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
referendum

Question 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
William Howard Taft

Question 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Bull Moose

Question 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
muckrakers

Question 33

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
trust-busting

Question 34

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Theory of the Leisure Class

Question 35

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
initiative

Question 36

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Australian ballot

Question 37

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"rule of reason"

Question 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Herbert Croly

Question 39

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
"dry" and "wet" states (or counties)

Question 40

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
How the Other Half Lives

Question 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Eighteenth Amendment

Question 43

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Elkins Act

Question 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Shame of the Cities

Question 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Newlands Act

Question 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Call of the Wild

Question 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Muller v. Oregon

Question 48

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Women's Christian Temperance Union

Question 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Lochner v. New York

Question 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Northern Securities case

Question 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
the Square Deal

Question 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​Hetch Hetchy Valley

Question 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
General Federation of Women's Clubs

Question 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Women's Trade Union League

Question 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Hepburn Act

Question 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Meat Inspection Act

Question 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
The Jungle

Question 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Seventeenth Amendment

Question 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Question 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
National Consumers League

Question 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
U.S. Forest Service

Question 62

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Yosemite National Park

Question 63

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
​New Freedom

Question 64

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Ballinger-Pinchot affair

Question 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
New Nationalism

Question 66

The American population in 1900 can best be described as

A) ethnically and racially mixed.
B) reaching nearly 76 million people.
C) one in seven people were foreign-born.
D) beset with increasingly complex social and economic problems.
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 67

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to

A) end the corrupt and family-destroying influence of the liquor industry.
B) make Senators directly elected and end the Senate millionaire's club.
C) prohibit child labor.
D) guarantee the secret Australian ballot in all federal elections.
E) make the initiative and referendum applicable ​for all federal laws.

Question 68

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

A) formulate a consistent philosophy of social reform.
B) explain the causes of social ills.
C) devise solutions to society's problems.
D) make the public aware of social problems.
E) link up with movements for social justice.

Question 69

Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé.
A.David G. Phillips
B.Ida Tarbell
C.Lincoln Steffens
D.Ray Stannard Baker
1)The United States Senate
2)The Standard Oil Company
3)City governments
4)The condition of blacks

A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
B) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
C) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
D) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
E) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

Question 70

The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was

A) Reform Judaism.
B) the missionary movement.
C) conservative evangelicalism.
D) the social gospel.
E) the Catholic Action movement.

Question 71

The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to

A) preserve world peace.
B) use the government as an agency of human welfare.
C) ensure the Jeffersonian style of government.
D) get the government off the backs of the people.
E) promote economic and social equality.

Question 72

Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism.
A.Thorstein Veblen
B.Jack London
C.Jacob Riis
D.Henry Demarest Lloyd
1)"bloated trusts"
2)Slum conditions
3)"conspicuous consumption"
4)Destruction of nature

A) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
B) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
C) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
D) A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
E) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

Question 73

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill

Question 74

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

A) exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires' club.
B) exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas.
C) uncovered the corruption and collusion between municipal government and the Standard Oil Company.
D) uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery.
E) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

Question 75

Progressive reformers included which of the following?

A) Antiliquor campaigners
B) Pacifists
C) Female settlement workers
D) Labor unionists
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 76

Progressivism

A) was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes.
B) offered little to the growing women's movement.
C) supported better treatment of women but not women's suffrage.
D) saw racial issues as more important than women's issues.
E) reflected the opinions and views of white working-class women and men on how to achieve social and political reforms.

Question 77

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Sierra Club

Question 78

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

A) the National Consumers League.
B) the Sierra Club.
C) the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
D) the Women's Peace Party.
E) the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Question 79

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

A) the need to assert female power against male oppression.
B) America's need to catch up with more progressive European nations.
C) women's need for more opportunities to work outside the home to support their families.
D) the harsh treatment of working women by employers.
E) their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

Question 80

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
Old Guard