US HIST Chapter 18 GML

Between 1901 and 1914,

13 million immigrants came to the United States.

The Progressive-era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called

Fordism

From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately

Halved

Which of the following is not attributed to Eugene V. Debs?

He disliked the idea of the socialist gospel as it promoted equality, self-government, and freedom.

Keating-Owen Act

Outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce.

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act

The Progressive era was a time of

explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golden Age" for American agriculture.

Who was the early-twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?

Robert M. La Follette

Who was the Progressive-era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established free kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?

Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones

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

Scientific Management

A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger

opened a clinic and began distributing contraceptive devices to poor women.

The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was

an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.

This term asserted governmental action to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life.

"Social Legislation"

During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from ____ to ____.

Capital goods, consumer products

The first women to become mayors of major cities, governors, and members of Congress hailed from the West and included all of the following except

Edith Wharthon, Illinois

Which of the following is not attributed to William "Big Bill" Haywood?

He ran an unsuccessful attempt for the position of President of the United States.

Which of the following is not attributed to Louis D. Brandeis?

He successfully argued in Muller v. Oregon that women were men's equal, thus their maximum working hours should be the same as those of men.

What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, as Asian-Americans, as well as white men?

Industrial Workers of the World

Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as

Muckrackers

During the Progressive era, the largest city in the United States was

New York

President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the

Square Deal

Ida Tarbell tirelessly worked to expose

Standard Oil Company

All of the following were muckrakers except

Theodore Roosevelt

Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except

the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.

Causes of the "new immigration" included all of the following except

tightened immigration laws in the United States.