Deck 5: Progressivism, 1900-1917

Question 1

All of the following bills passed during Wilson's first term except

A)the Kern-McGillicuddy Act (worker compensation for Federal employees).
B)the Adamson Act (8-hour work day).
C)the Hepburn Act (railroad regulation).
D)the Keating-Owen Act (child labor regulations).
E)Federal Reserve Act (creating a national banking system).

Answer 1

the Hepburn Act (railroad regulation).

Question 2

Among the Progressive era election reforms,the initiative​

A)provided a means for removing corrupt legislators from office.​
B)required that voters prove their citizenship and meet other requirements before being allowed to cast their ballots.​
C)allowed reformers to submit legislative proposals directly to voters in general elections rather than going through the legislature.​
D)gave voters the right to repeal any unpopular legislation.​
E)required the direct election of senators.

Answer 2

allowed reformers to submit legislative proposals directly to voters in general elections rather than going through the legislature.​

Question 3

The NAACP

A)was created and controlled entirely by black activists.
B)advocated violence as a means of ending discrimination.
C)initiated lawsuits challenging segregation and voting discrimination.
D)continued the policy of accommodation established by Booker T.Washington.
E)no longer exists.

Answer 3

initiated lawsuits challenging segregation and voting discrimination.

Question 4

The Progressives were

A)all members of the Republican Party.
B)isolationists in foreign policy.
C)mostly Protestant middle-class idealists and reformers.
D)mostly laissez-faire politicians and conservative businessmen.
E)mostly farmers.

Question 5

Which of the following bills was not passed during Theodore Roosevelt's tenure in office?

A)Hepburn Act
B)Pure Food and Drug Act
C)Clayton Anti-Trust Act
D)Meat Inspection Act
E)Public Lands Commission

Question 6

Progressive views on voting rights included the belief that

A)the vote that should be granted only to those responsible enough to handle it.
B)only those deemed "fit" should be allowed to vote.
C)immigrants should become citizens before being allowed to vote.
D)citizenship should be difficult to achieve.
E)all of these choices.

Question 7

Who of the following was not a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?

A)William Taft
B)Eugene Debs
C)William McKinley
D)Theodore Roosevelt
E)Woodrow Wilson

Question 8

The modern civil rights movement began with the

A)Seneca Falls convention.
B)founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
C)passage of the Fifteenth Amendment.
D)election of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States.
E)founding of Tuskegee Institute.

Question 9

The introduction of the Australian ballot

A)failed to solve major problems with voting.
B)was opposed by Progressive politicians.
C)allowed political parties to print ballots and supervise voting.
D)ended corruption in American politics.
E)required voters to vote in private rather than in public.

Question 10

Settlement houses

A)were boarding houses in which middle-class women lived together before marriage.
B)were government-sponsored homes for the poor.
C)provided a myriad of social services to impoverished neighborhood residents
D)served primarily as social clubs.
E)were built by politicians to gain the votes of immigrants.

Question 11

As a result of election-law reform in the late 19th and early 20th century,

A)blacks in the South were largely disenfranchised.
B)Asian immigrants were granted voting rights when they became citizens.
C)all citizens over the age of 18 were granted voting rights.
D)it became possible to register and vote on the same day.
E)more immigrants became involved in politics.

Question 12

As a result of Florence Kelley's investigations,Illinois

A)cleaned up the meat packing plants.
B)taxed the production and sale of alcoholic beverages.
C)established free legal clinics for needy people.
D)closed down Hull House.
E)outlawed child labor and established the eight-hour day for women workers.

Question 13

The nation's first settlement house was in which of the following cities?

A)New York City
B)Chicago
C)Boston
D)Philadelphia
E)Atlanta

Question 14

Which of the following is not a true statement about Eugene V.Debs?

A)He attempted to organize a working-class movement. 
B)He believed in and promoted the violent overthrow of capitalism.
C)He was the leader of the Socialist Party of America.
D)He received nearly one million votes in the 1912 presidential election.
E)His radicalism made him popular with Progressive leaders.

Question 15

Theodore Roosevelt became known as a "trust-buster" because he directed the Justice Department to prosecute

A)Standard Oil.
B)Northern Securities Company.
C)Hormel Meatpackers.
D)American Telegraph and Telephone.
E)American Tobacco Company.

Question 16

Socialism

A)never developed support in the United States.
B)was a European movement that had no relevance to American society and politics.
C)had a substantial and significant impact on Progressivism.
D)attracted only college-educated intellectuals.
E)was eliminated in America before the turn of the century.

Question 17

The first American settlement house was

A)founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889,in Chicago.
B)Toynbee Hall.
C)founded by prominent Chicago businessman Charles Hull.
D)founded by muckraker Ida Tarbell.
E)founded in Washington,D.C.by the federal government.

Question 18

Which of the following was not a political reform designed to weaken the power of party bosses in national politics?

A)the introduction of the direct primary the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,
B)granting female suffrage
C)the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment,
D)mandating the direct election of senators
E)the introduction of the initiative and the referendum the recall.

Question 19

According to Wilson's New Freedom,trusts should be handled how?

A)They should be left alone; the market would determine their fate.
B)Trusts should be regulated to prevent abuses.
C)Trusts should be broken up by the government.
D)Trusts were not innately bad; some big business had a positive impact on the nation's economic growth.
E)Successful trusts could serve as a role model to small businesses.​

Question 20

All of the following describe saloons in ethnic,working-class neighborhoods except

A)they drained family finances and contributed to domestic violence.
B)they offered workers decent places to eat lunch.
C)they offered loans and check cashing services.
D)they were supported by progressive reformers as positive assets in working-class communities.
E)they offered traditional ethnic food and drinks.

Question 21

Socialism achieved significant popularity in isolated urban areas in the East,but never had any notable political power in the other states.

Question 22

The Federal Reserve Act reflected Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom principles by breaking up private financial institutions.

Question 23

The leading spokesperson for the disabled was

A)Julia Lathrop.
B)Helen Keller
C)Edith Abbott.
D)Sophonistra Breckinridge.
E)Florence Kelley

Question 24

Theodore Roosevelt became President

A)after being elected on the Progressive Party ticket.
B)when President McKinley was shot.
C)as a result of a disputed election.
D)with a majority of the electoral vote but a minority of the popular vote.
E)through a Supreme Court decision.

Question 25

In 1915,the Supreme Court

A)endorsed the separate but equal principle.
B)outlawed railroad rebates.
C)invalidated "grandfather clauses" that allowed certain whites to vote in Oklahoma and Maryland.
D)declared poll taxes unconstitutional.
E)declared segregation unconstitutional.

Question 26

Which state was the first to grant women the right to vote?​

A)​Wyoming
B)​Utah
C)​Colorado
D)​Massachusetts
E)​New York

Question 27

Woodrow Wilson was all of the following except

A)the first southerner elected president since the Civil War.
B)a professional educator with a Ph.D.in political science.
C)a deeply religious progressive who believed in peaceful,orderly reform.
D)a Democrat
E)a firm believer in racial equality.

Question 28

In response to the 1902 coal miners' strike President Roosevelt

A)dispatched federal troops to restore order and force the miners back to work.
B)insisted that mine owners accept arbitration or face federal troops to seizures of their property.
C)refused to involve the federal government.
D)defied public opinion by siding with the workers.
E)nationalized the coal fields.

Question 29

The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

A)gave women the vote.
B)gave blacks the vote.
C)gave the government the power to impose an income tax.
D)prohibited alcoholic beverages.
E)provided for the popular election of Senators.

Question 30

The NAACP was an organization composed entirely of northern blacks whose goals included desegregation and elimination of voting restrictions for blacks throughout the nation.

Question 31

The Federal Reserve Act

A)broke up powerful private financial institutions that were too powerful.
B)was a more powerful and centralized authority than a national bank would have been.
C)prohibited interlocking directories.
D)provided for government ownership of national banks.
E)was more in keeping with Roosevelt's concept of New Nationalism than with the promises of Wilson's New Freedom.

Question 32

As President,Woodrow Wilson

A)responded to pleas from the NAACP to use the federal government's power to stop lynching.
B)opposed the efforts of white southerners in his cabinet to segregate government departments.
C)sent federal troops to break up the Pullman strike.
D)used government's power aggressively to aid worker and farmer organizations.
E)failed to support legislation that would have given labor and farmer organizations immunity from antitrust prosecution.

Question 33

Roosevelt decided not to run for reelection in 1908 because

A)He had decided to retire.​
B)He feared he would not win the nomination.​
C)There were deep rifts between him and old guard conservatives in the Republican Party.
D)He had promised four years earlier that he would not run again.
E)All of these choices.

Question 34

Settlement houses had dual functions: They were neighborhood resources for immigrants and working-class residents,while they also actively participated in the progressive political agenda nationwide.

Question 35

Progressive-era reform in municipal politics diminished the influence of working-class and minority residents and resulted in more power for the middle and upper classes.

Question 36

W.E.B.Du Bois

A)opposed Booker T.Washington's accommodationist philosophy with regard to race relations.
B)encouraged the African American community to compromise with white racists.
C)opposed the organization of the NAACP.
D)called for segregation of the races.
E)supported black nationalism.

Question 37

President Woodrow Wilson's nominations to the Federal Reserve Board tended to be

A)men from Wall Street firms and industrial corporations.
B)progressive reformers.
C)socialists.
D)career politicians.
E)farmers.

Question 38

William Howard Taft was a

A)corrupt,incompetent professional politician.
B)strong preservationist in regard to the national forests.
C)cautious and conservative leader.
D)dynamic,aggressive personality who loved public confrontations.
E)Democrat.

Question 39

Debate among the presidential candidates in 1912 focused on

A)women's suffrage.
B)foreign policy.
C)civil rights.
D)the trusts.
E)the railroads.

Question 40

Theodore Roosevelt's antitrust policy reflected his belief that the

A)best solution would be see all monopolies destroyed.
B)economy would profit from an increase in the number of small,family-owned businesses.
C)federal government should not interfere with the economy.
D)federal government should own all monopolies.
E)federal government should only dissolve monopolies that violated the law.

Question 41

Theodore Roosevelt's concern for the environment is best described as preservationist.

Question 42

The Australian ballot predated the Progressive Era.

Question 43

Most settlement houses were founded by wealthy philanthropists like James B.Duke and Henry Clay Frick.

Question 44

In the 1912 presidential election,Roosevelt,Wilson and Debs all agreed that American corporations had too much power.

Question 45

Progressive reforms actually resulted in a decline in voting participation rates between 1896 and 1920.

Question 46

The Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization made it easier to become a U.S.citizen.

Question 47

Suffragists of the Progressive Era maintained that women were morally superior to men.

Question 48

Jane Addams approved of political machines.

Question 49

Progressive reform arose first in the cities.

Question 50

Progress toward racial equality was sluggish.

Question 51

Julius Wayland's Appeal to Reason reached 750,000 subscribers weekly.

Question 52

Woodrow Wilson easily won the Democratic nomination in 1912.

Question 53

The city commission form of local government was first used in the aftermath of a destructive tidal wave in Galveston,Texas.

Question 54

The city commission and city manager plans were universally popular.

Question 55

New York lagged behind in municipal progressive reform.

Question 56

After his first term,President Theodore Roosevelt won the support of working-class Americans because they believed he was willing to use the federal government to arbitrate labor disputes.

Question 57

Western states granted women the right to vote in the interest of egalitarianism.

Question 58

Popular magazines like McClure's appealed to the buying public by publishing sensational stories exposing the ills of American society.

Question 59

Muckrakers were more sympathetic than were the settlement house workers to the problems of the inner-city poor.

Question 60

Women first began voting in the north.

Question 61

Robert LaFollette began his political career as a Democrat.

Question 62

Roosevelt split from the Republican Party in 1912 and formed the Populist Party.

Question 63

The problems associated with corrupt voting practices,such as bribing voters with food and drink,was solved partially by the introduction of the ____________________.

Question 64

Woodrow Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court in 1916 in a bid to shore up support from Progressives.

Question 65

William Howard Taft had served as Theodore Roosevelt's vice president.

Question 66

Woodrow Wilson remained true to his New Freedom principles.

Question 67

Demands that blacks be restored their voting rights and that segregation be abolished were two of the main tenets of participants in the ____________________ movement.

Question 68

As President,Woodrow Wilson committed the resources of the federal government to the anti-lynching campaign.

Question 69

Woodrow Wilson identified with the Bryan wing of the Democratic Party.

Question 70

The Progressive Party earned the nickname "Bull Moosers" because of Theodore Roosevelt's fondness for hunting.

Question 71

During his 1904 presidential campaign,Theodore Roosevelt promised every American a(n)____________________.

Question 72

Many suffragists in the South and West opposed the franchise for Americans of color.

Question 73

Wilson did not feel that the tariff issue was a significant one.

Question 74

By 1916,Progressives had not accomplished a great deal.

Question 75

The Payne-Aldrich Tariff encouraged foreign imports.

Question 76

The women's suffrage movement regained momentum after Carrie Chapman Catt became president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association in 1915.

Question 77

Woodrow Wilson gained the Democratic presidential nomination in 1912 on the first ballot.

Question 78

The charismatic speaker and leader of American socialists was ____________________.

Question 79

Woodrow Wilson mounted an aggressive antitrust campaign after assuming the presidency.

Question 80

​In New York,Assemblymen Robert F.Wagner and Alfred E.Smith abandoned the progressive reform movement to become machine politicians.