Chapter 18 APUSH MCQs
Industrial freedom in the Progressive era meant:
A and B
How did mass consumption in the Progressive era result in new consumer freedoms?
A and B only
Working women experienced new freedoms in the progressive era because:
A and B only
The Progressive era's birth-control movement was characterized by:
A and C
Which of the following was NOT an expression of personal freedom in the Progressive era?
Avoiding popular magazine articles about intimate topics
The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:
Colorado mine workers and militia
Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?
He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations
Why did the 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.
How did nickelodeons reflect a mass-consumption society in the progressive era
Nickelodeons offered a popular and less expensive leisure activity for urban residents.
Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence Massachusetts, in 1912 if FALSE?
The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance
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 twentieth century is NOT true?
Southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society.
Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?
The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system.
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 who had been evacuated from Lawrence shocked the public.
Why did millions of American farm families migrate westward from 1900 to 1910?
The availability of free land meant more opportunities for commercial farming in the west
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.
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.
the "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?
a mature consumer economy
The Industrial Workers of the World:
advocated a workers' revolution
the word progressivism came into common use around 1910
as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement
What Progressive-era issue became a crossroads where the paths of labor radicals, cultural modernists, and feminists intersected?
birth control
The triangular 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.
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
Writers known as Spargo who exposed 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.
labor agents:
provided American employers with workers who signed long-term labor contracts
Feminism
sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women.
Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT:
the decline of traditional agriculture.
Artists captured the transformation of urban landscapes in the Progressive era through all of the following EXCEPT:
the hudson river school
Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through
the workplace
Why did Spargo use such vivid images and graphic language to describe coal manufacturing?
to expose dangerous practices in coal mines
The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century
was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
During the Progressive era:
growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices.
By 1912 the socialist party
had elected local officals
Birds of passage were:
immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland.
Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:
clustered in the west as agricultural workers
what type of reform came about as the result of accounts like Spargo's
child labor laws
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" because of rising urban demand for farm goods.
