Chapter 18

Working women experienced new freedoms in the Progressive era because:

DIk

Henry Ford paid his employees five dollars a day because he wished to avoid strikes at his factory

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

Louis Brandeis was an enemy of the labor movement and led the Supreme Court in its many pro-business decisions.

FALSE

As president, Theodore Roosevelt was persuaded by Gifford Pinchot to refrain from setting aside millions of acres of federal land as wildlife preserves.

False

Compared to the American Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World union was conservative for its day.

False

The ability to buy consumer goods had nothing to do with the Progressive-era union fight for higher wages.

False

Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?

He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations.

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.

Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?

The party's proposal to nationalize railroads, banks, and to provide unemployment relief expressed popular progressive thought.

Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures

Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures.

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.

Drawing on the reform programs of the Gilded Age and the example of European legislation, Progressives sought to reinvigorate the idea of an activist, socially conscious government.

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

Socialism had made such inroads in popularity that by 1914 the U.S. Congress had a socialist representative.

TRUE

Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?

The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system.

Why did Carlos Montezuma call for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1916?

The Bureau had failed to secure Indian self- determination.

What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

The appearance of malnourished children evacuated from Lawrence shocked the public.

What about Woodrow Wilson appeared to Theodore Roosevelt's supporters like a relic of the past?

Wilson was committed to programs that aided small businessmen and seemed to deny the inevitability of economic concentration.

One particularly influential muckraker was Ida Tarbell, whose book, History of the Standard Oil Company, appeared in 1904.

True

Socialism flourished in places such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

True

Socialism had made such inroads in popularity that by 1914 the U.S. Congress had a socialist representative.

True

The new woman was college educated, middle class, and devoted to providing social services.

True

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to try and influence public opinion by holding regular press conferences.

True

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

Upton Sinclair.

Why was "the city" the focus of progressive politics?

Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and the most significant changes.

Electoral reform during the Progressive era:

actually limited many Americans' right to vote.

The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution.

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 loosely defined political movement.

John Muir did all of the following EXCEPT:

attract very few followers with his message about the spirituality of nature.

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

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

lived in close-knit communities.

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

promising lower taxes and less government interference

All of the following statements about urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:

they worked with political machines.

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

was led by the Industrial Workers of the World

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

was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.

The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?

A mature consumer economy.

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

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

included both middle- and working-class women.

By 1912, the Socialist Party:

idk

How did mass consumption in the Progressive era result in new consumer freedoms?

idk

During the Progressive era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

clustered in the West as agricultural workers.

All of the following statements about urban Progressives are true EXCEPT:

IDK

Industrial freedom in the Progressive era meant:

IDK

Why did businesses support the Pure Food and Drug Act?

IDK

Why did the Socialist Party gain significant political influence during the Progressive era?

IDK

The term "Fordism":

describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.