Chapter 20 Questions

In "Parties and Interest Groups," the author, Alan Brinkley, argues that during the Progressive Era, political "interest groups,"

1. Other power centers formed replacing decline of 1. voter turnout 2. Party bosses lost most of their authority. 2. Were new organizations that formed outside the platform party

The Sierra Club was founded by

John Muir

The term "muckrakers" referred to

Journalists

During the Progressive era, club women often

Lobbied for congressional anti-lynching legislation

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

Meatpacking Industry

During the early twentieth century progressive era, the Socialist Party of America

Gained considerable strength as a third party even though they would never threaten the two established parties.

In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for

Greater activism by the federal government

At the heart of Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,

He desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities

In "Western Progressives," the author, Alan Brinkley, argues that a slate of progressive reformers from western states would include

Hiram Johnson, George Norris, William Borah

Alice Paul and the National Women's Party

Never accepted the relatively conservative "separate sphere" justification for suffrage.

The initiative and referendum were Progressive Era political reforms designed to weaken the power of

The legislature.

World War 1 hurt the socialist movement in the United States

The war generate anti-radical feelings in the country

The Federal Trade Commission Act

created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government

The 1916 Keating-Owen Act wast the first federal law regulating

Child labor

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

Directed their attention at improving their living conditions

The term "Boston marriage" referred to

Two women who lived together

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

Was at one time the largest women's organization in American history

In the 1912 presidential election results

Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote

In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft

was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him

The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff

was intended to weaken the power of business trusts