Chapter 18

All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT: Select

Addams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar.

Which was the Ellis Island of the West?

Angel Island

Angel Island was where most Mexican immigrants entered the United States.

False

Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that economic independence did not necessarily mean a change in the home and family relationships.

False

Compared to the American Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World union was conservative for its day.

False

Henry Ford paid his employees five dollars a day because he wished to avoid strikes at his factory.

False

Louis Brandeis was an enemy of the labor movement and led the Supreme Court in its many pro-business decisions.

False

New sexual attitudes during the Progressive age were limited to the radical bohemia of New York's Greenwich Village.

False

Once in office, Woodrow Wilson was a fierce trustbuster, dismantling more than twenty monopolies.

False

Progressives wished to completely overthrow industrial capitalism.

False

Progressivism was restricted to the United States, with the rest of the world concerned about imperialism rather than their own domestic reforms.

False

The doors were locked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on the day of the fire because the manager tragically forgot to unlock them when he arrived in the morning.

False

The federal government created national parks on land that was uninhabited.

False

The federal government enacted most of the era's reform measures.

False

In the early twentieth century, Angel Island in San Francisco Bay became known as the "Ellis Island of the West" and served as the main entry point for immigrants from:

Japan.

Which person was a Supreme Court justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement?

Louis Brandeis

Margaret Sanger was a:

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers?

Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism.

Which statement about the American Federation of Labor in the early twentieth century is FALSE?

The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system.

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is FALSE?

The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance.

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive presidents were:

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?

William Jennings Bryan

Drawing on the reform programs of the Gilded Age and the example of European legislation, Progressives sought to reinvigorate the idea of an activist, socially conscious government.

True

During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation.

True

In 1912, the socialist weekly newspaper, Appeal to Reason, was the largest weekly paper in the country.

True

Like the abolitionist movement before it, the labor movement, in the name of freedom, demanded the right to assemble, organize, and spread its views. Select one:

True

Progressive-era immigration formed part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by industrial expansion and the decline of traditional agriculture.

True

Socialism flourished in places such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

True

Socialism had made such inroads in popularity that by 1914 the U.S. Congress had a socialist representative.

True

The conservation movement reflected the Progressive thrust toward efficiency and control.

True

The election of 1912 evolved into a national debate over the relationship between political and economic freedom in the age of big business.

True

The ideal of economic abundance would eventually come to define the American way of life, in which personal fulfillment was to be found through acquiring material goods.

True

The new woman was college educated, middle class, and devoted to providing social services.

True

When Theodore Roosevelt failed to win the Republican nomination for president in 1912, he formed his own political party.

True

Eugene V. Debs was:

a Socialist candidate for president.

The word Progressivism came into common use around 1910 as:

a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups.

The Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution.

Jane Addams:

advocated for the working poor.

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

argued that women were too weak to work long hours.

The Sixteenth Amendment:

authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax.

Which of the following social groups was NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

big-city-machine politicians

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation.

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities.

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers.

Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as:

muckrakers.

In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

national health insurance.

During the Progressive era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.

The main difference between New Nationalism and New Freedom was over:

regulating versus trust-busting.

To create national parks such as Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government:

removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands.

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

scientific management.

As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:

supported the conservation movement.

Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT:

the annexation of the Philippines.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:

the workplace.

Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

using political bosses to staff his administration.

Scientific management:

was pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor.

Nickelodeons:

were motion-picture theaters with a five-cent admission charge.

During the Progressive era:

growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices.

By 1912, the Socialist Party:

had elected scores of local officials.

Muckrakers:

exposed the problems of industrial and urban life.