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Chapter 19—The Progressive Era, 1900-1917
MULTIPLE CHOICE
1) Theodore Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike (1902):
a. |
reflected his "hands-off" view toward business matters. |
b. |
helped win the strikers higher wages. |
c. |
produced a showdown between the army and the strikers. |
d. |
supported the owners' decision to break the union. |
2. Jane Addams:
a. |
sought fulfillment as a wife and mother. |
b. |
founded Hull House. |
c. |
used on ending prostitution and avoided challenging the power of political bosses. |
d. |
devoted her life to the cause of women's suffrage. |
3. Historians use the term "progressivism" to signify all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. |
the emergence of new concepts of the purposes and functions of government. |
b. |
changes in government policies and institution. |
c. |
a trend in the Democratic Party. |
d. |
political agitation that produced institutional change. |
4. The Social Gospel Movement:
a. |
grew out of the reform wing of the Republican Party. |
b. |
suggested that if people followed Jesus' teachings, they would reform society. |
c. |
concerned itself with private morality and ignored the problems of the poor. |
d. |
was bitterly denounced by Catholics. |
5. Margaret Sanger attracted wide attention in 1916 when she:
a. |
became the first female head of a corporation. |
b. |
became the first member of the Women's Army Corps. |
c. |
announced her candidacy for Congress. |
d. |
went to jail for teaching women about birth control. |
6. In the case of Muller v. Oregon (1908), the Supreme Court ruled that:
a. |
women were entitled to have greater protection in the workplace than men. |
b. |
the Fourteenth Amendment does not guarantee the right to vote for women. |
c. |
businesses do not have to provide maternity leave for their female employees. |
d. |
women are entitled to half of a family's assets following a divorce. |
7. Opponents of women's suffrage claimed that:
a. |
women should not take leadership roles in society. |
b. |
voting would corrupt women. |
c. |
immigrants would not come to a country where women had equal rights. |
d. |
most universities did not train women in understanding politics. |
8. By the late 19th century, advocates of Prohibition:
a. |
concentrated on getting their message into school curriculums. |
b. |
worried more about getting people to drink moderately than stop altogether. |
c. |
tried to persuade people to quit drinking on moral grounds. |
d. |
tried to use the power of government to make people stop using alcohol. |
9. During the 1910s, the suffrage movement
a. |
mobilized women of all ages and socioeconomic classes. |
b. |
relied more heavily than ever on the educated middle class. |
c. |
gained an increasingly African American leadership. |
d. |
began to be dominated by men. |
10. Which statement describing African Americans during the Progressive Era is most accurate?
a. |
By and large, they accepted their second-class position with little protest. |
b. |
Mob violence against them continued to be unchecked. |
c. |
They allied with southern white progressives and challenged disfranchisement and segregation laws. |
d. |
Thousands of African Americans in northern cities moved to the rural South. |
11. Which statement about W. E. B. Du Bois is most accurate?
a. |
Although he was a highly regarded black leader, he was virtually illiterate. |
b. |
He urged that black people think of themselves as human beings and pay no attention to irrelevant characteristics like skin color. |
c. |
He refused to work with white people. |
d. |
He challenged Booker T. Washington's leadership and urged black people to demand their rights. |
12. The victims of Southern lynchings, Ida B. Wells pointed out, also included
a. |
white women. |
b. |
children |
c. |
successful black businessmen. |
d. |
priests. |
13. Most progressives
a. |
looked suspiciously at the Socialists. |
b. |
looked to Socialists for support. |
c. |
made Socialists one of their main targets. |
d. |
had been Socialists at one point or another. |
14. Who were the muckrakers?
a. |
Journalists who published stories exposing the corruption of business and politics. |
b. |
Opponents of the Panama Canal. |
c. |
The leaders of the IWW. |
d. |
Social workers in the settlement house movement. |
15. Which piece of reform legislation directly resulted from muckraking efforts?
a. |
Sherman Anti-Trust Act |
b. |
Meat Inspection Act |
c. |
Mann Act |
d. |
Interstate Commerce Act |
16. Which of the following was not a progressive reform of urban politics?
a. |
citywide elections of city councils |
b. |
the city commission system |
c. |
the direct primary |
d. |
the city manager plan |
17. Hazen Pingree and "Golden Rule" Jones advocated:
a. |
city ownership of utilities. |
b. |
laissez-faire government. |
c. |
black suffrage. |
d. |
Prohibition. |
18. City planning represented:
a. |
a chance for political machines to increase their control. |
b. |
the Progressives' distrust of centralized authority. |
c. |
fears that working-class neighborhoods might spread into more affluent neighborhoods. |
d. |
a willingness to give government greater control over private property. |
19. Educational professionals sought to reform schools by:
a. |
reducing the role of school boards. |
b. |
having voters elect superintendents to increase accountability. |
c. |
refusing to place children who could not keep up with their peers in special classes. |
d. |
requiring all teachers to hold graduate degrees. |
20. Robert La Follette led:
a. |
a political machine that successfully fought off reform. |
b. |
Wisconsin Progressives. |
c. |
Progressive Democrats in the House of Representatives. |
d. |
a business revolt against high taxes and government regulation. |
21. As governor of California, Hiram Johnson:
a. |
repealed laws that discriminated against Asian immigrants. |
b. |
ordered the San Francisco city government thrown out of office. |
c. |
was an uncompromising opponent of corporate influence in politics. |
d. |
stayed in power because of the Southern Pacific Railroad's money. |
22. Which of the following was NOT part of the "direct democracy" reforms?
a. |
direct primacy |
b. |
referendum, |
c. |
Australian Ballot. |
d. |
recall, |
23. Progressives endorsed the initiative and the referendum because they:
a. |
reduced the power of lobbyists. |
b. |
allowed voters to pass laws without going through potentially corrupt legislative bodies. |
c. |
ensured that only experts would participate in policy making. |
d. |
granted special favors to interest groups. |
24. As an interest group, the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM):
a. |
attached itself to the Republican Party. |
b. |
allied itself with the American Federation of Labor (AFL) to advance workplace regulation. |
c. |
in 1904 targeted and defeated two key pro-labor members of Congress. |
d. |
advocated for temperance as well as high tariffs for manufacturers. |
25. Which industry was the first target of Theodore Roosevelt's trustbusting campaign?
a. |
manufacturing. |
b. |
mining. |
c. |
meatpacking. |
d. |
railroads. |
26. Which statement best describes Theodore Roosevelt's views on trusts?
a. |
Trusts are a threat to democracy and should be broken up whenever possible. |
b. |
Trusts are an evil, albeit a necessary evil. |
c. |
Trusts are potentially beneficial, but they need regulation. |
d. |
Trusts reflect the survival of the fittest and should be left alone. |
27. Who was Theodore Roosevelt's chief advisor on conservation issues?
a. |
John Muir |
b. |
Gifford Pinchot |
c. |
Lincoln Steffens |
d. |
Richard Ballinger |
28. The Hepburn Act
a. |
banned child labor. |
b. |
set maximum hours for female workers. |
c. |
allowed the ICC to establish maximum railroad rates. |
d. |
created the Federal Reserve System. |
29. The Sixteenth Amendment:
a. |
banned the production, sale, and consumption of alcoholic beverages in the United States. |
b. |
required the election of U.S. senators directly by the voters of each state. |
c. |
gives the federal government the authority to tax income. |
d. |
established universal female suffrage. |
30. What was NOT a provision of the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty?
a. |
The United States purchased the assets of the French company that had begun the canal. |
b. |
Panama became an American protectorate. |
c. |
The United States received control of the canal zone in perpetuity. |
d. |
the United States paid Colombia $10 million for Panamanian independence. |
31. The Roosevelt Corollary:
a. |
granted the United States sovereignty over the Canal Zone in return for a $10 million payment. |
b. |
proclaimed the right of the United States to police the Caribbean areas. |
c. |
was the Roosevelt Administration's policy of supporting U.S. investments abroad. |
d. |
was an executive order by Roosevelt to limit Japanese emigration to the United States. |
32. Dollar diplomacy was:
a. |
an amendment attached to the Federal Reserve Act of 1914. |
b. |
the Taft Administration's policy of supporting U.S. investments abroad. |
c. |
an outgrowth of the Federal Trade Commission. |
d. |
used by the United States to purchase the rights from Great Britain to build a canal through Central America. |
33. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, which European nation especially sought to improve relations with the United States?
a. |
Germany |
b. |
France |
c. |
Britain |
d. |
Russia |
34. The New Nationalism:
a. |
was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Woodrow Wilson. |
b. |
helped to unite Republicans around the candidacy of William Howard Taft. |
c. |
was used as a rationale for Roosevelt to "take" the Panama Canal. |
d. |
was a program of labor and social reform advocated by Roosevelt in the 1912 election. |
35. Which of the following terms best describes Wilson's approach to monopolies in his "New Freedom"?
a. |
laissez-faire |
b. |
regulation |
c. |
government ownership |
d. |
anti-trust action |
36. Louis Brandeis convinced Woodrow Wilson to center his 1912 presidential campaign on which issue?
a. |
Big business |
b. |
Foreign policy |
c. |
Conservation |
d. |
Women's suffrage |
37. As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson:
a. |
took a hands-off approach to leadership. |
b. |
shocked party leaders by embracing reform issues. |
c. |
developed a reputation as a conservative. |
d. |
eliminated the corrupt state board of education. |
38. The Underwood Act:
a. |
banned monopolistic business practices such as interlocking directorates. |
b. |
created a presidential commission to investigate illegal business practices. |
c. |
was enacted by Congress in 1914 to regulate aspects of banking. |
d. |
was enacted by Congress in 1913 to substantially reduce tariffs. |
39. The Federal Reserve Act of 1913:
a. |
was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court. |
b. |
allows bankers to control the nation's money supply. |
c. |
turned the national banking system into a socialist enterprise. |
d. |
provided some regulation for the nation's banking system. |
40. Which of the following is NOT true about the Federal Reserve System?
a. |
It was established as a "bankers' bank." |
b. |
The chair of the Federal Reserve was to be chosen in national elections every six years. |
c. |
Participating banks named two thirds of its board of directors. |
d. |
All national banks were required to belong to the system. |
41. The Clayton Antitrust Act (1914):
a. |
led to the prosecution of hundreds of powerful corporations. |
b. |
called for regulating rather than breaking up big business. |
c. |
allowed the federal government to prosecute big labor. |
d. |
led to the destruction of the Farmers Alliance. |
42. Ash Can School Artists:
a. |
shared a focus on urban life. |
b. |
emphasized the artist's impression of a subject. |
c. |
painted murals in numerous public buildings throughout the United States during the Progressive Era. |
d. |
fought tirelessly for social reforms. |
ESSAY
43. What was the role of women in the Progressive movement?
44. To what extent did Progressivism fail to help minorities?
45. In what ways was a model leader for state-level Progressivism?
46. How did Theodore Roosevelt expand American influence in world affairs?
47. Ask students to analyze how Woodrow Wilson, through legislation, effectively constructed a number of stabilizing mechanisms for corporate capitalism.
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