Chapter 20

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

None of these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform.

The Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909

resulted in President William H. Taft losing favor with progressives.

During the progressive era, political "interest groups"

rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.

Regarding women and the professions during the progressive era,

social work was genereally thought to be an appropriate career for women.

The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of

state legislatures.

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.

In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study of

the Standard Oil trust.

As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft

was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

was, at one time, the largest women's organization in American history.

All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration except

the Interstate Commerce Act

All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration except

the Interstate Commerce Act.

A major reform of American banking was achieved in 1913 with passage of the

Federal Reserve Act

The first director of the National Forest Service was

Gifford Pinchot.

Regarding the immigrant population in the United States, progressive reformers

all of these answers are correct.

While progressivism has many meanings it tended to be based on the central assumption that

American society was capable of improvement.

During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was

Eugene V. Debs

In 1909, a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot saw

President William H. Taft fire Pinchot for insubordination.

During the progressive era, the power of the political parties

declined, as did voter turnout.

During the progressive era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters

deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women.

The 1912 presidential election was an ideological contest between

different types of progressivism.

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

female.

Between 1914 and 1919, the temperance movement

gained momentum as a result of World War I.

In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for

greater activism by the federal government.

During the progressive era, the Socialist Party of America

grew stronger.

In 1901, one of the first professions to organize on a national level was in the field of

medicine.

Thorstein Veblen argued that

modern societies should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems.

In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

a large majority of states gave some voting rights to women, many states gave full voting rights to women, New York,, Miochigan, Illinois, and California all granted women the right to vote, and a large majority of states gave some voting rights to women, including New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California.

During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of

a lower birth rate, the movement to work outside the home, increased schooling for children, and higher levels of education.

During the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World

advocated a single union for all workers.

When it came to environmental issues, Theodore Roosevelt

all of these answers are correct

Regarding organizing the professions during the progressive era,

by 1916 all states had established professional bar associations.

In 1916 Kating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating

child labor.

During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,

he made the breaking up of business combinations his highest priority.

During the progressive era, reformers of city government frequently tried to

hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.

Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president in 1908 because

in 1904 he had promised not to run again.

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists.

In regards to divorce in the United States during the progressive era, by 1916,

more than ten percent of all marriages ended in divorce.

During the progressive era, one of the first targets for political reformers was

municipal government.

In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers, President Theodore Roosevelt

ordered federal arbitrition.

In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress

passed a graduated income tax.

The recall and direct primary were progressive era political reforms designed to weaken

political parties.

In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts

should be destroyed.

In the early twentieth century, the theory of eugenics

supported the restrictions of immigration by nationality.

Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, voter ballots were printed and distributed by

the political parties.

During the progressive era, WEB Du Bois asserted all of the following except that

the principal tool for gaining civil rights was to elect blacks to public office.

The term "Boston Marriage" refers to

two women who lived together.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Lincol Steffens wrote extensively of the need to reform

urban politics.