Deck 19: The Progressive Era

Question 1

The National American Woman's Suffrage Association,working state to state between 1911 and 1914,gained the right to vote for women in several states,but not in the state of

A) Oregon.
B) Kansas.
C) California.
D) New York.
E) Nevada.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 created

A) a commission to oversee the workability of the gold standard.
B) a system for establishing tariffs in a more objective way.
C) a government agency with power to investigate businesses.
D) a regional banking system under control of the federal government.
E) a commission to regulate business practices.

Answer 2

D

Question 3

Which of the following was a function of settlement houses?

A) Teaching new immigrants how to become - and live - like middle class Americans.
B) Providing meeting places for local residents to hold political and community meetings.
C) Observing the poor to find out their needs and study social conditions in the community.
D) Providing free health care for the poor.
E) All of these choices.

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Unhappy with the way his successor,William Howard Taft,was running the country,Theodore Roosevelt

A) challenged Taft to a duel.
B) ran for Congress in New York.
C) cajoled the Senate to try and have Taft impeached.
D) urged the Republicans not to re-nominate Taft.
E) formed the Progressive Party and ran against him.

Question 5

All of the following is true about the Social Gospel Movement,except

A) Protestant ministers began to respond to the problems of an industrialized society in the 1880s.
B) In their fight for social justice, ministers focused on ending poverty and prostitution.
C) Ministers like Washington Gladden and Walter Rauschenbusch became nationally recognized leaders of the Social Gospel.
D) The Social Gospel incorporated the beliefs of Social Darwinism.
E) The actions of ministers of the Social Gospel prompted middle-class citizens to fight for Progressive reform.

Question 6

Many Progressive cities took heed from the poor political planning and selfish business interests that marked the pre-hurricane planning of ____ to develop and implement their respective Progressive political and social reforms.

A) New York
B) Galveston
C) Chicago
D) Miami
E) Philadelphia

Question 7

Progressives successfully replaced the cronyism of political machines with

A) rules requiring those who wanted government jobs to pass an exam.
B) the promise that those working in government could keep their jobs no matter whether their party won in an election or not.
C) the creation of a professional corps of administrations.
D) a merit-based system for promotions.
E) All of these choices.

Question 8

When President Theodore Roosevelt spoke of his "square deal," he referred to his fair and balanced approach to

A) the U.S. relationship with Latin America.
B) the relationship between labor and business.
C) the implied contract between consumers and producers.
D) his dealings with Congress.
E) dealing with monopolies.

Question 9

Hull House was founded by

A) Jane Addams.
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
C) Margaret Sanger.
D) Alice Paul.
E) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.

Question 10

The first target of Progressive reform was

A) temperance.
B) the cities.
C) legislation concerning factories.
D) food and drug legislation.
E) woman suffrage.

Question 11

The 19th Amendment

A) granted the federal government the right to levy a national income tax.
B) prohibited the selling and consumption of alcohol.
C) granted women the right to vote.
D) limited the President of the United States to two terms in the White House.
E) reduced the national voting age from 21 to 18.

Question 12

Which of these devices was not designed to expand democratic participation in American politics?

A) Initiative
B) Primary
C) Recall
D) Urban league
E) Referendum

Question 13

By 1920,the U.S.Census Bureau reported that for the first time,

A) America no longer had a real frontier.
B) there were more foreign-born than American-born people in the United States.
C) more people lived in urban areas than in non-urban (rural) areas.
D) less than 2 percent of Americans made their living from farming.
E) in America's cities, more children were attending school than were working in factories.

Question 14

Theodore Roosevelt was the first president to make effective use of the

A) Bureau of Corporations.
B) Hepburn Act.
C) Progressive platform.
D) Sherman Antitrust Act.
E) veto.

Question 15

The Anti-Saloon League differed from the Women's Christian Temperance Union in all of the following ways except

A) The Anti-Saloon League was far more political.
B) The Anti-Saloon League had mostly male members.
C) The Anti-Saloon League pushed for local, mandatory education programs on the evils of alcohol.
D) The Anti-Saloon League became the first modern, single-issue lobbying group in the U.S.
E) The Anti-Saloon league sought to pass laws on the state and local level.

Question 16

Progressive governor Robert "Battling Bob" La Follette secured passage of his "Wisconsin Idea," which produced laws in all of the following areas,except

A) Workers' compensation
B) Regulation of railroad companies
C) Conservation of natural resources
D) The creation of expert commissions working in the name of civil service
E) A ban on liquor

Question 17

The woman who dedicated herself to educating women about birth control was

A) Margaret Sanger.
B) Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
C) Ida B. Wells-Barnett.
D) Jane Addams.
E) Alice Paul.

Question 18

Municipal housekeeping is a term that describes

A) the implementation of sanitation departments across America during the Progressive era.
B) Progressive women's reform efforts as an extension of their household roles.
C) city government efforts to clean up industrial waste throughout the cities.
D) Progressive initiatives for cleaner, safer workplaces.
E) All of these choices.

Question 19

Which of these would have been most apt to be a Progressive reformer?

A) A white male living on a rural farm
B) An owner of a bank in Manhattan
C) A woman working in a Philadelphia factory
D) A middle class woman working as a teacher in Chicago
E) A white male factory supervisor in New York City

Question 20

Because of his concern with the nation's dwindling natural preserves President Theodore Roosevelt

A) refused to permit any economic activity in all designated national parks and national forests.
B) introduced the first environmental regulation on industrial emissions.
C) created five national parks and fifty wildlife refuges.
D) drafted the Endangered Species Act.
E) founded the Sierra Club.

Question 21

Who were the Progressives? What were their main goals?

Question 22

Theodore Roosevelt considered the White House to be a "bully pulpit" from which he could intervene in national affairs.

Question 23

What reforms were most important to progressives who were working in America's urban areas? Why did they concentrate on these changes specifically?

Question 24

Which act established a commission that had the task of investigating unfair business practices and stopping them if necessary?

A) Clayton Antitrust Act
B) Federal Trade Commission Act
C) Sherman Antitrust Act
D) Keating-Owen Act
E) Bureau of Corporations Act

Question 25

Explain the principles of scientific management.Whose interests did it serve? What,do you think,was the workers' reaction to scientific management?

Question 26

Discuss the progressive reforms in politics on local,state,and national levels.Do you think they accomplished the goals they aimed for?

Question 27

To achieve their goal of bettering society,Progressives relied on all of the following strategies except

A) crafting laws against perceived social wrongs.
B) writing exposés that made the public aware of problems and galvanized their support for change.
C) supporting trust-busting efforts by political leaders.
D) relying on parades, protests and demonstrations to rally public support for their initiatives.
E) relying on the courts to end racism and place limits on the hours women and children could work.

Question 28

Muckrakers were investigative writers who exposed

A) financially dishonest corporations.
B) political corruption in city machines.
C) unsafe working conditions in factories.
D) unsavory practices by meatpackers.
E) All of these choices.

Question 29

The Underwood Tariff

A) raised the tariff on imported food products.
B) was the first tariff reduction since the Civil War.
C) angered factory owners who wanted continued protection for their products.
D) was one element of the Bureau of Corporations Act.
E) demonstrated Wilson's concern for the nation's farmers.

Question 30

The Anti-Saloon League was composed mostly of men,although women were the main advocates for temperance,because men did not think women should have to be involved in the dirty work of politics.

Question 31

Frederick W.Taylor developed the concept of scientific management,which dealt with

A) food and drug safety.
B) standardization of factory tasks to achieve efficiency in business.
C) exactly how factories functioned.
D) the way company presidents managed their time.
E) efficiency in the educational system.

Question 32

Compare and contrast the Progressivism of presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.Which of these men do you think would have been more supportive of the push for woman suffrage?

Question 33

Charlotte Perkins Gilman is known for her involvement in the woman suffrage movement as well as for attempting to educate women on the use of birth control.

Question 34

Progressivism is often seen as the middle- and upper-class response to the Industrial Revolution,while in truth its central ideas have remained a part of modern American liberalism.

Question 35

The purpose of the initiative and referendum was to sidestep the powerful lobbies of moneyed interests that seemed to control legislatures.

Question 36

Progressive education advocates like John Dewey embraced child-centered education,which referred to

A) ensuring children had balanced exposure to the arts and sciences.
B) the introduction of a core curriculum at schools nationwide.
C) encouraging children to pursue their interests rather than forcing them into a standard curriculum.
D) teaching children the value of living in a democracy.
E) the practice of learning by rote.

Question 37

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

A) made it illegal to hire anyone under the age of eighteen.
B) cut work hours for those under eighteen to twenty hours per week.
C) prevented the employment of children under the age of sixteen.
D) was vetoed by President Wilson.
E) stated that children could only work during the months that school was not in session.

Question 38

All of the following books are classics in the muckraking tradition,except

A) Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
B) Horatio Alger, Ragged Dick
C) Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
D) Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
E) Ida Tarbell, The History of America's Meatpacking Industry

Question 39

In the name of improving the human species,some Progressives embraced eugenics,which was

A) the belief in a woman's right to regulate when and how many children she has.
B) the notion that education was the key to a better society.
C) the belief that people with undesirable genetic makeup should be sterilized.
D) a campaign for laws promoting greater democratization.
E) None of these choices.

Question 40

By the 1910s the word "progressive"

A) had developed a double meaning.
B) was no longer in use.
C) had been reduced to an insult.
D) had become almost synonymous with decency and cleanliness.
E) remained a description only a select few politicians desired for themselves.

Question 41

In Twenty Years at Hull House,Jane Addams finally admitted that her work at Hull House had given her life meaning for the first time.

Question 42

Turn-of-the-twentieth-century Progressivism began with a specific agenda: to promote temperance among factory workers.

Question 43

The National Civic Federation,founded in 1900,brought business owners and workers together in a form of partnership,with the result that working conditions improved markedly.

Question 44

Working out the most efficient way to wield a shovel full of coal was just one of Frederick Winslow Taylor's time-and-motion studies.

Question 45

Many senators opposed the idea that they be elected by the public,because they did not look forward to campaigning before that public which they were supposed to serve.