chapter 18

All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT: - Addams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar - Addams built kindergartens for immigrant children - Addams established employment bureaus and health clinics - Hull House was modeled on a settlement house in London - Hull House and other settlement houses provided careers for the "new woman"

Addams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar

Which was Ellis Island of the West?

Angel Island

The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:

Colorado mine workers and militia

Jane Addams:

advocated for the working poor

During the Progressive era:

commercial farming grew

In 1912, New Freedom:

was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:

was led by the Industrial Workers of the World

In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from:

Japan

Which person was a Supreme Court justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement?

Louis Brandeis

A frank acceptance of the benefits of bigness, coupled with the intervention of government to counteract its abuses, best describes the philosophy behind:

New Nationalism

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?

Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism

All of the following statements about Urban Progressives are true EXCEPT: - They raised taxes to increase spending on schools and parks - They worked with political machines - They sought to establish public control of gas and water works - They worked to reform the structure of government - They sought to improve public transportation

They worked with political machines

The Progressive presidents were:

Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson.

All of the following people were "muckrakers" EXCEPT: Upton Sinclair Samuel Gompers Lewis Hine Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens

Samuel Gompers

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is FALSE? - The strike demonstrated that workers sought the opportunity to enjoy the finer things in life - The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance - Children of the striking workers publicly marched up New York's Fifth Avenue - The strike was in response to a reduction in weekly wages - The strike was settled on the workers' terms

The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

Theodore Roosevelt

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election

William Jennings Bryan

The writer whose work encourages the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:

Upton Sinclair

Eugene V. Debs was:

a Socialist candidate for president.

Electoral reform during the Progressive era:

actually limited many Americans' right to vote.

The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution

The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":

allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

argued that women were too weak to work long hours

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups

The sixteenth amendment

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

big-city-machine politicians

What Progressive-era issue became a crossroads where the paths labor radicals, cultural modernists, and feminists intersected?

birth control

Margert Sanger was a:

birth-control advocate.

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation

The 1912 strike in Lawerence, Massachusetts:

is also known as the Bread and Roses strike

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

literacy tests and residency requirements

Most new immigrants who arrived during the years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers

Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as:

muckrakers

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.

The main difference between New Nationalism and New Freedom was over:

regulating versus trust-busting

To create national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government:

removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands

A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a

scab

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:

scientific management

As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson

signed into law the Keating-Owen Act

Feminism:

sought to attack the tradition roles of sexual behavior of women.

All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century are true EXCEPT:

southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

supported the conservation movement

Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT: - the annexation of the Philippines - widespread poverty in rural southern and eastern Europe and parts of Asia - political turmoil - industrial expansion - the decline of traditional agriculture

the annexation of the Philippines

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:

the workplace

During the Progressive era:

urban development highlighted social inequalities

Progressive governor of Wilsconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

using political bosses to staff his administration.

Scientific management:

was pioneered by Fredrick W. Taylor

Maternalist reform:

was supported by both feminists and more traditional women

Nickelodeons

were motion-picture theaters with a five-cent admission charge

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

President Theodore Roosevelt:

helped striking coal miners to negotiate a favorable settlement with their employers

Birds of passage were

immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

included both middle- and working-class women

A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:

civil rights for black.

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

clustered in the West as agricultural workers

Vaudeville is a:

form of entertainment.

Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities?

church

The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on:

city life

Founder of the Society of American Indians, Carlos Montezuma:

demanded that American Indians be left alone in

The term "Fordism"

describes as economic system based on mass production and mass consumption

Muckrackers

exposed the problems of industrial and urban life.