Question 1

As a result of journalist David Graham Phillips's investigative article entitled "The Treason of the Senate," President Theodore Roosevelt began to call such journalists .

Accepted Answer

A)  "mugwumps" 
B)  the "Talented Tenth" 
C)  "muckrakers" 
D)  socialists

Question 2

What Progressive message did artist and eyewitness Victor Gatto convey in his painting
Triangle Fire: March 25, 1911?

Accepted Answer

A)  Big business was sympathetic to the plights of the urban worker. 
B)  The government did not have the power to protect workers. 
C)  First responders had effective systems in place when dealing with emergencies. 
D)  Early twentieth-century legislation gave women greater opportunities in the labor force.

Question 3

-What do these budgets reveal about lifestyles for urban laborers and professionals in the 1890s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Urban laborers ate healthy foods and had a good diet. 
B)  Expenses for urban laborers outweighed the income of one male wage earner. 
C)  Most professional workers lived within the urban center of cities. 
D)  Living conditions in rental units were similar for urban workers and urban professionals.

Question 4

Why did many labor unions oppose the use of child labor in the workplace?

Accepted Answer

A)  Child labor drove down adult wages. 
B)  Children had better opportunities to learn job skills in vocational schools rather than factories. 
C)  Children were only paid half or less of the wages earned by adults. 
D)  Children would be healthier if they worked outdoors on farms rather than indoors.

Question 5

How did Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" differ from Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" program?

Accepted Answer

A)  The "New Freedom" wanted to focus more on success for small businesses, while the "New Nationalism" wanted to regulate but not destroy big business. 
B)  The "New Freedom" opposed tariffs, while the "New Nationalism" supported them. 
C)  The "New Freedom" wanted government-owned monopolies, while the "New Nationalism" called for trust-busting. 
D)  The "New Freedom" supported laborers, while the "New Nationalism" supported industrialists.

Question 6

What did Progressives mean when they referred to "municipal housekeeping"?

Accepted Answer

A)  Women had earned the right to vote. 
B)  Women were responsible for promoting Christian charity to help the poor. 
C)  Women were placed in charge of promoting legislation to ban alcohol and vice. 
D)  Women could not adequately protect their children without government assistance.

Question 7

How did the 1914 Ludlow Massacre that ended with the deaths of 13 women and children after Colorado state troops set fire to their camp reveal about the shortcomings of the Progressive movement?

Accepted Answer

A)  Unions realized that they needed more than just government support to solve their problems. 
B)  Industrialists continued to fail to provide company housing for their workers. 
C)  Members of similar unions remained disunited when it came to supporting their comrades. 
D)  The media remained insensitive to tragic situations like the Ludlow Massacre.

Question 8

What ultimately resulted in a decline in child labor?

Accepted Answer

A)  mandatory school attendance 
B)  legislation by the Progressive era Congress 
C)  the decreasing population of young children 
D)  lower wages paid to children

Question 9

What preferred method did labor leaders use to try to ensure that health and family benefits offered by employers not be eliminated during times of economic downturn?

Accepted Answer

A)  strikes 
B)  court injunctions 
C)  turning to government regulation 
D)  collective bargaining

Question 10

What does the term Progressivism best describe?

Accepted Answer

A)  a criticism that the poor were in that condition because of their selfish pursuit of pleasure 
B)  a radical political ideal that private property should be eliminated 
C)  a shared philosophical approach to solve issues that threatened middle-class values 
D)  a belief in individualism that made each man responsible for his wealth or poverty

Question 11

What was black journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett referring to when she declared that "a Winchester rifle should have a place of honour in every black home, and it should be used for the protection which the law refuses to give"?

Accepted Answer

A)  resistance to lynch mobs 
B)  boycotts of white-owned railroads 
C)  desegregation of public facilities 
D)  overturning of Jim Crow laws that denied voting rights to blacks

Question 12

When Booker T. Washington stated in his 1895 "Atlanta Exposition Address" that "the opportunity [for blacks] to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house," he believed that race relations would improve if

Accepted Answer

A)  African Americans focused on economic advancement and remained patient 
B)  African Americans defended themselves with rifles 
C)  African Americans left the United States 
D)  white Americans understood the poverty in which many African Americans lived

Question 13

Progressive reforms during the early twentieth century were led mostly by members of the

Accepted Answer

A)  working class 
B)  Socialist Party 
C)  upper class and business elite 
D)  middle class

Question 14

What did W. E. B. Du Bois mean by the "Talented Tenth"?

Accepted Answer

A)  those Americans who, like him, attended elite schools such as Harvard 
B)  those African Americans whose intellect and skills were never discovered or cultivated 
C)  an elite set of African Americans for whom segregation should not apply 
D)  an educated elite of African-American professionals and teachers

Question 15

What did the Federal Reserve Act, Clayton Anti-Trust Act, and the Federal Trade Commission have in common?

Accepted Answer

A)  They were all socialist policies approved by President Wilson during his term in office. 
B)  They were all Progressive measures rejected by Theodore Roosevelt for not doing enough to help workers. 
C)  They were all pro-business conservative legislation approved by President Taft. 
D)  They were all Progressive measures passed by the Wilson administration to reform banking and big business.

Question 16

President Wilson offset the lost revenues resulting from his cut to the tariff by relying on

Accepted Answer

A)  monies brought in by direct taxation on the states 
B)  private donations from the wealthy 
C)  a large tax on the wealthiest companies 
D)  revenue created by the first federal income tax

Question 17

How did laundry owner Curt Muller, who argued that current law deprived his workers of the right to control their own labor, react to the Supreme Court's decision in Muller v. Oregon?

Accepted Answer

A)  He lowered the maximum hour rate for his female employees. 
B)  He fired all his female employees and replaced them with Chinese men. 
C)  He instituted more beneficial health and disability qualities for his female employees. 
D)  He hired a larger number of women to work in his laundry.

Question 18

-What type of emotion might saloonkeepers and their clients have felt when they saw prohibitionist Carry A. Nation in costume and with hatchet as she would march into saloons?

Accepted Answer

A)  humor 
B)  religious devotion 
C)  fear 
D)  strength

Question 19

-What was the immediate Progressive reaction to this 1912 photograph depicting a stand-off between the state militia and striking textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

Accepted Answer

A)  They developed greater sympathy for working-class immigrants. 
B)  They were fearful that the strike would turn violent. 
C)  They wanted to find a legal way to curb the power of big business. 
D)  They sought ways to give labor unions more power over their employers.

Question 20

-How does this photograph of a carpentering class at the Hampton Institute reflect Booker T. Washington's ideas of how African Americans should achieve success?

Accepted Answer

A)  It fosters an image of African Americans as superior craftsmen. 
B)  It calms the fears of white supremacists by showing blacks working menial jobs. 
C)  It shows young men working at a trade school to gain skills necessary for advancement. 
D)  It shows young men silently demonstrating their fitness to attend a desegregated school.

Exam 18: Creating a Democratic Paradise: The Progressive Era, 1895-1915