AP U.S. History: Chapter 28

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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


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