Chapter 28

Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. ___ A. David G. Phillips ___ B. Ida Tarbell ___ C. Lincoln Steffens ___ D. Ray Stannard Baker 1. the United States Senate 2. the Standard Oil Company 3. city governments 4. the condition of blacks

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

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

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

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

Newlands Act

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

Square Deal.

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

Standard Oil.

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

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

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

control of labor.

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

damming of rivers.

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

declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional.

The progressive movement was instrumental in getting both the Seventeenth and Eighteenth amendments added to the Constitution. The Seventeenth called for__________, and the Eighteenth called for__________.

direct election of senators, prohibition

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

dollar diplomacy.

Political progressivism

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

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

ending special regulations governing women in the workplace

InMuller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that

female workers required special rules and protection on the job

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

governmental efficiency.

While president, Theodore Roosevelt

greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency.

The Progressive Party is mostly politically rooted in

greenback labor party and the populists

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

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

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

make the public aware of social problems.

Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the

middle class.

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

more democracy.

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

plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry.

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

prove that the government, not private business, ruled the country.

The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of

railroad regulation

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

regulating

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

safety regulations and workmen's compensation laws for job injuries.

To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests," progressives advocated all of the followingexcept

socialism.

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

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

4. Progressivism

supported many reforms advocated by feminists

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

tame capitalism

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

the Panama Canal.

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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

the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute.

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

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

threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

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

unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

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

use the government as an agency of human welfare.

The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government

was designed to remove politics from municipal administration.

As president, William Howard Taft

was wedded more to the status quo than to change.

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

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because

William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies.

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except

abolishing special workplace protections for women.