US History II AP Midterm - Chapter 21 Test

Which of the following was NOT a suffragette? (a) Francis Willard (b) Alice Paul (c) Susan B. Anthony (d) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (e) Lucy Stone

(a) Francis Willard

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT (a) imposition of an income tax (b) imposition of a poll tax (c) extension of suffrage to women (d) prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages (e) procedures for electing United States Senators

(b) imposition of a poll tax

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom involved all of the following EXCEPT (a) Clayton anti-trust act (b) Federal reserve (c) Elkin's act (d) Underwood tariff (e) Federal trade act

(c) Elkin's Act

Suffragettes utilized a three-prong approach to achieving suffrage at the federal level. All of the following are methods utilized EXCEPT (a) Challenging the 14th amendment (b) Attempting to create a new amendment (c) Voting for women that would legislate for them (d) Getting the right to vote at the state level

(c) Voting for women that would legislate for them

Progressive reformers favored all of the following EXCEPT (a) legislative investigating bodies at all levels of government (b) regulatory agencies to supervise business practices (c) legislative investigating bodies to curtail abuses of the press (d) non-partisan commissions in city government to eliminate machine corruption (e) commissions to study social and economic problems

(c) legislative investigating bodies to curtail abuses of the press

Who is NOT a Muckraker? (a) Florence Kelley (b) Lincoln Steffens (c) Ida Tarbell (d) Alice Paul (e) Theodore Dreiser

(d) Alice Paul

"I stand for the square deal. But when I say that I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. I do not mean that I want a square deal for the man who remains poor because he has not got the energy to work for himself." Which of the following does NOTrelate? (a) New Nationalism (b) New Freedom (c) Teddy Roosevelt (d) Social Darwinism (e) Progressivism

(d) Social Darwinism

An account of the outstanding achievements of the Progressive Movement would research in all o the following areas EXCEPT (a) child labor legislation (b) anti-trust legislation (c) municipal government reform (d) civil rights legislation (e) the reform of state electoral procedures

(d) civil rights legislation

Most Progressives sought all of the following EXCEPT the (a) democratization of the political structure (b) reformation of children's labor laws (c) expansion of women's rights (d) legislative creation of a socialist commonwealth (e) application of "scientific methods" to solve social problems

(d) legislative creation of a socialist commonwealth

Muckraking declined for all the following reasons EXCEPT (a) Writers found it difficult to top their previous stories (b) Pressure from banks and advertisers (c) Corporations worked on their image with public relations departments (d) Competition from other magazines (e) None of the above

(e) None of the above

Which of the following does not apply to Booker T. Washington? (a) He was a slave (b) He created Tuskegee Institute (c) He advocated economic advancement as a method of achieving equality (d) He wrote up from slavery (e) None of the above

(e) None of the above

Which of the following does not apply to W. E. B. Dubois? (a) He attended the Niagara Conference (b) He helped create the NAACP (c) He wrote "The Souls of Black folk" (d) He was from Mass. and went to Harvard (e) None of the above

(e) None of the above

Which of the following was not a reason Republican Progressives were disgruntled with Taft? (a) The Payne-Aldrich Tariff (increased protective tariffs) (b) Fired TR's friend Gifford Pinchot from the Forest Service (c) Taft supported party boss Joe Cannon in Congress (d) Taft supported Conservative candidates for Congress in the 1910 election (e) None of the above

(e) None of the above

Progressives supported greater participation in the political process through all of the following EXCEPT (a) primary elections (b) recall (c) initiative and referendum (d) direct election of senators (e) city manager government

(e) city manager government

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT (a) the continued efforts of the Anti-Saloon League (b) the fervor of the First World War lending patriotism to the cause of prohibition (c) the Progressive belief in social reform (d) the cumulative impact of state prohibition laws (e) the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

(e) the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

All of the following were objectives of W.E.B. DuBois EXCEPT (a) the total enfranchisement of all eligible Black citizens (b) the establishment of an organization to seek legal redress of Black grievances (c) the establishment of Black political power (d) cooperation with White people in obtaining Black progress (e) the implementation of Booker T. Washington's program for Black Progress

(e) the implementation of Booker T. Washington's program for black progress

Which of the following is NOT part of TR's new nationalism? (a) Square deal as exemplified in the 1901 Coal strike (b) Trust busting (i.e. Northern securities) (c) railroad regulation (d) Consumer protection (e) Conservation (i.e. parks and reserves) (f) Muckraking

(f) Muckraking

The 16th Amendment

Created the income tax

The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 did what?

Made currency and credit more elastic.

Who emerged during the Progressive Era as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans?

W. E. B. Dubois

The muckrakers of the early twentieth century

Were leading critics of urban boss politics

Margaret Sanger is best known for her

advocacy of birth control

Jane Addam's Hull House was established for the purpose of

aiding the urban poor, especially immigrants

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

The main purpose of initiative, referendum, and recall was to?

enlarge citizens' control over state and local governments.

During Woodrow Wilson's administration, the federal government attempted to counteract the economic influence of big business by

establishing the Federal Trade Commission

Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" and Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" were similar in that both

expanded the government's role in regulating businesses and business monopolies

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act?

explicitly legalized strikes and peaceful picketing

The Progressive Movement in the United States

favored the intervention of a strong government to reach its goals

The Hepburn Act strengthened the authority of Interstate Commerce Commission by?

giving it the power to set maximum rates that railroads could charge.

What was the federal government's attitude towards trusts during most of the Progressive period?

good trusts should be allowed to exist subject to proper governmental regulations

The initiative, referendum, and recall were intended primarily to

make politics at the state and local level more immediately responsive to popular opinion

The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens were most closely associated with

muckraking

Theodore Roosevelt's position on trusts is best summarized as?

only good trusts should be tolerated while bad trusts are prevented from manipulating markets

"The rights of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the Untied State or by any State on account of sex"

19th Amendment

The 18th Amendment

Bans alcohol

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, who was the principal public opponent of lynching in the South?

Ida B. Wells

John Dewey was a

Pragmatist

The Supreme Court decision in "Plessy v. Ferguson" (1896), did what?

Sanctioned separate but equal public facilities for African Americans.

Theodore Roosevelt's chief criticism of the muckrakers was that they?

were more adept at exposing abuses than at constructive efforts. Or as TR would say, "They did not know when to put down the rake".

The only states with complete women suffrage before 1900 were

west of the Mississippi

"We are engaged today in a class war... Due to the evolution of the capitalist system in which we live, society has been mainly divided into two economic classes... Between theses two classes, there is an irrepressible economic conflict. The unity of labor, economic, and political, upon the basis of the class struggle, is at the time, the supreme need of the working classes." This statement would most likely have been made by

a Socialist

Robert M. La Follette was significant in the progressive period of American history as

a reform governor of Wisconsin

Ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment is considered a progressive victory because by?

providing for the direct election of United States Senators, it took their election out of the hands of state legislatures.

The best description of the Progressive Movement of the early 20th century is that it was a movement to

solve the political and social problems created by industrialization.

What happened to bring about the passage in 1906 of the pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act?

the disgusting descriptions found in "The Jungle"

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

unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to

use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions