AP U.S. History: Chapter 28
The Panic of 1907 exposed the need for substantial reform in
U.S. banking and currency policies
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired 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 progressive policies
By 1910, all of the following were true about women's efforts to gain the vote except
a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states
In Muller 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
The results of the 1912 election
gave Woodrow Wilson a resounding electoral victory in the presidential contest, but a narrower popular vote victory for Wilson, especially in states outside the old Confederacy
Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was
governmental efficiency
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
guaranteed recognition of labor unions
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
Activists, scholars and politicians mused about why socialism did not take hold in America, giving all of the following as reasons except
law and government policy prevented workers from organizing and advocating for higher wages and better working conditions
The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to
make Senators directly elected and end the Senate millionaire's club
Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to
make the public aware of social problems
Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a
middle-of-the-road reformer
According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was
more democracy
All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except
passing an equal pay and sex discrimination law for women in Congress
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 democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States
The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to
reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of _________ trusts.
regulating
Woodrow Wilson developed a reputation for pursuing progressive policies and advocating progressive reforms while
serving as governor of New Jersey
During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following except
substantially weaken corporate capitalism
The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
the Women's Christian Temperance Union
The multiple-use conservationists generally believed that
the environment could be effectively protected without shutting it off to human use
As president, William Howard Taft
was wedded more to the status quo than to progressive change
Teddy Roosevelt believed that large corporate trusts
were candidates for being broken up only if they acted as monopolies against the public interest
Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé.
A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism.
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with
All of these choices are correct
Progressive reformers included which of the following?
All of these choices are correct
The western preservationists suffered their worst political setback when
California's Hetch Hetchy Valley was damned to supply water to San Francisco
Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
Ending special regulations for safety and sanitary conditions governing women in the workplace
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
Square Deal
The Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving
Standard Oil
The American population in 1900 can best be described as
all of these choices are correct
The New Nationalism program of Theodore Roosevelt and the "Bull Moose" Progressives of 1912
all of these choices are correct
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom program in the election of 1912 included the
all of these choices are correct
Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he
announced that he would be a candidate for a third term as president
The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass
antisweatshop and workers' compensation laws for job injuries
The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government
was designed to remove politics from municipal administration
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most important and enduring achievement may have been
conserving American resources and protecting the environment
The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court
declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
dollar diplomacy
The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to
end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts
While president, Theodore Roosevelt
enhanced the power and prestige of the presidency
The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912
featured the support of prominent women progressives and social reformers such as Jane Addams
The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was
the social gospel
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
The first people to work toward preserving nature and the environment were
typically members of the upper classes from the cities and medium-size towns
Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities
unmasked the corrupt alliance between big businesses and municipal government
The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to
use the government as an agency of human welfare
Progressivism
was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes