AMH CHAPTER 18
The triangle shirtwaist fire:
brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.
The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:
was led by the Industrial Workers of the World
The term "Fordism"
Describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption
In the first decade of the twentieth century, American farm communities
Entered a "golden age" bc of rising ur am demand for farm goods
Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that economic independence for women did not necessarily mean a change in the home and family relationships
False
Compared with the AFL, the industrial workers of the world union was conservative for its day
False
Henry Ford paid his employees five dollars a day because he wished to avoid strikes at his factory.
False
Louis Brandeis was an enemy of the labor movement and led the Supreme Court in its many pro business decisions
False
New sexual attitudes during the Progressive age were limited to the radical bohemia of New York's Greenwich Village.
False
The ability to buy consumer goods had nothing to do with the progressive era union fight for higher wages
False
The doors were locked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on the day of the fire because the manager tragically forgot to unlock them when he arrived in the morning.
False
How did mass consumption in the Progressive era result in new consumer freedoms?
Farmers in the heartland has more time and money to attend Nickelodeon shows AND department stores provided city residents with access to electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners
Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward looking corporate leaders?
He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations
Why did millions of American farm families migrate westward from 1900 to 1910?
Irrigation technology was successfully implemented in the American Southwest AND the availability of free land meant more opportunities for commercial farming in the west
Why did socialist party gain significant political influence during the progressive era
Jewish and other immigrant laborers across the country supported its fight against economic exploitation of workers
Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
Muckrakers
How did "nickelodeons" reflect a mass consumption society in the Progressive era?
Nickelodeons offered a popular and less expensive leisure activity for urban residents
Artists captured the transformation of urban landscapes in the progressive era through all of the following except:
Photographs of theaters
Labor agents:
Provided American employers with workers who signed long term labor contracts
Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?
Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.
Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early 20th century is not true
Southerners fully participated in the mass consumption society
During the progressive era, the working woman became a Symbol of female emancipation
TRUE
Which statement about the American federation of labor in the early 20th century is false ?
The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system
Progressive era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following except :
The annexation of the Philippines
What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachussets ?
The appearance of malnourished children who had been evacurated from Lawrence's shocked the public
Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachussets in 1912 is FALSE ?
The strikers asked the American federation of labor for assistance
Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:
The workplace
By 1914, socialism had made such inroads in popularity that the US Congress has a socialist representative
True
In 1912, the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to reason was the largest paper in the country
True
Like the abolitionist movement before it, the labor movement, in the name of freedom, demanded the right to assemble, organize, and spread its views.
True
Margaret Sanger was sentenced to a month in jail for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that distributed birth control devices to poor immigrant women
True
One particularly influential muckraker was ida tarbell; whose book the history of the standard oil company appeared in 1904
True
Progressive era immigration formed part of a larger process of worldwide migration that was set in motion by industrial expansion and the decline of traditional agriculture
True
Socialism flourished in places such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.
True
The writer who's work encouraged the passage of the meat inspection act was
Upton Sinclair
Why was "the city" the focus of orefressoge politics
Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and the most significant changes
Working women experienced new freedoms in the Progressive era because:
Young immigrant factory workers gained independence from the traditional control of their fathers AND employment opened up to married white women
The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?
A mature consumer economy
Industrial freedom in the progressive era meant:
A rise in union activism AND a loss of personal autonomy for skilled workers working under scientific management
The ludlow massacre was a tragic confrontation between:
Colorado mine workers and militia
During the Progressive era:
growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices
By 1912, the Socialist Party:
had elected scores of local officials
Birds of passage were :
immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland
Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:
lived in close-knit communities
The progressive movement drew its strength from:
middle-class reformers
In the early twentieth century, the socialist party advocated for all of the following except:
national health insurance
During the Progressive era:
new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.
Industrial Workers of the World:
advocated a workers' revolution
The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:
as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement
Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:
clustered in the West as agricultural workers