apush 29 multiple choice

The idea of 'multiple-use resource management' included all of the following practices except

b) damming of rivers

The progressive movement was instrumental in getting both the 17th and 18th amendments added to the Constitution. The 17th called for ________________, and the 18th called for _______________,

b) direct election of U.S. senators; prohibition

Progressive reform at the level of city government seeme4d to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was

b) governmental efficiency

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the

b) plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry

The real purpose of Theodore Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to

b) prove that the government, not private business, ruled the country

Progressives who were among the strongest critics of injustice in early-twentieth-century America, received much of their inspiration from

b) the Greenback Labor party and the Populists

As one progressive explained, the 'real heart' of the progressive movement was to

b) use the government as an agency of human welfare

Match the earl 20th century muckraker below with the target of his or her expose A. David Phillips 1. the U.S. Senate B. Ida Tarbell 2. the Standard Oil Company C. Lincoln Steffens 3. city governments D. Ray Stannard Baker 4. the conditions of blacks

a) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

Theodore Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because

a) William H. Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies

The panic of 1907 stimulated reform in ______________ policy.

a) banking

As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except

a) control of labor

The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in its ruling

a) declared a law limiting work to 10 hours a day unconstitutional

Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?

a) ending special regulations governing women in the workplace

While president, Theodore Roosevelt

a) greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency

Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the

a) middle class

Progressivism

a) supported many reforms advocated by feminists

Match each late-19th century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen 1. 'bloated trusts' B. Jack London 2. 'slum conditions' C. Jacob Riis 3. 'conspicuous consumption' D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 4. destruction of nature

c) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1-

Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Theodore Roosevelt's presidency was the

c) Newlands Act

Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as

c) a middle-of-the-road politician

During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt did all of the following except

c) aid the cause of the environment

Political progressivism

c) emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of government

The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they

c) introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns

President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of __________________ trusts.

c) regulating

The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass

c) restrictions on female employment in the clothing industry

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

c) the Good Neighbor policy

One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902 was that

c) the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute

The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government

c) was designed to remove politics from municipal administration

As president, William Howard Taft

c) was wedded more to the status quo than to change

According to the text, Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring, tangible achievement may have been

d) his efforts supporting the environment

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

d) make the public aware of social problems

To regain the power that the people had lost to the 'interests,' progressives advocated all of the following except

d) socialism

The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they

d) sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic controls

Theodore Roosevelt believed that trusts

d) were here to stay with their efficient means of production

While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the

e) Square Deal

The Supreme Court's 'rule of reason' in restraint-of-trade cases was handed down in a case involving

e) Standard Oil

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated by the publication of

e) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Theodore Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he

e) announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president

In Muller vs. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelly and Louis Brandeis that

e) female workers required special rules and protection on the job

President Theodore Roosevelt branded reporters who tried to uncover injustice as 'muckrakers' because

e) he was annoyed by their excessive zeal

According to progressives, the cure for American democracy's ills was

e) more democracy

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except

e) opposition to Prohibition

The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of

e) railroad regulations

Theodore Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

e) threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops

The two key goals pursued by progressives were to curb the threats posed by ________________ on the one hand and __________________ on the other.

e) trusts; socialists

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled 'The Shame of the Cities,'

e) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government