Chapter 20
The Sierra Club was founded by
John Muir
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel the jungle encourage the federal government to regulate the
Meat packing industry
Thorsten Veblen argued that
Modern society should rely on a handful of highly trained engineers to govern the economy
During the progressive era clubs for African-American women
Often took anti-lynching in anti-segregation positions
Regarding divorce in the United States during the progressive era by 1916
One in every 9 marriages more than 10% ended in divorce
Regarding women in the professions during the progressive era
social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women
In the early 20th century eugenics
supported the restriction of immigration by nationality
The 1912 Republican convention was an ideological contest between
the Old Guard and what was to become the "Bull Moose"
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 temperance crusade
was supported by business employers.
When he assumed the presidency in 1901 Theodore Roosevelt
was the youngest American ever to hold the office
Dearing the early 20th century the industrial workers of the world
Advocated a single union for all workers
As an environmental conservation is President Theodore Roosevelt
Added extensive areas of land to the national forest system
Do you ring the progressive era the new woman was a product of
All these answers are correct
Dearing the progressive era reformers of city government frequently tried to
Higher professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century the social gospel was
Chiefly concerned with redeeming the Nations cities
Federal Reserve Act
Created a new type of paper currency
The federal trade commission act
Created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government
At the turn of the 20th century the leaders of the settlement house movement
Directed their attention to improving urban living conditions
Do you in the progressive era the acknowledge leader of American socialism was
Eugene V Debs
During the progressive era significant voting rights for women were first won in
Far West
The first director of the national forest service was
Gifford Pinchot
During the progressive era are the Socialist party of America
Grew stronger
In 1913 to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation congress
Passing graduated income tax
The recall and the direct primary progressive era political reforms design to weaken
Political parties
In 1909, a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot saw
President William H. Taft fire Pinchot for insubordination
In his political program known as the new freedom Woodrow Wilson believe trust
Should be destroyed
The settlement house movement of the early 20th century help spawn the profession of
Social work
In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on
Standard Oil Trust
The initiative and the referendum we're progressive era political reforms primarily designed to weaken the power of
State legislators
In the aftermath of the 1911 triangle shirt waist fire in New York City
Strict regulations were imposed on factory workers
The women's Christian temperance union
What is at one time the largest women's organization in American history
In the 1912 presidential election results
Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote
During the progressive era important vehicles for social reform included
both New York's Tammany Hall and the Triangle Shirtwaist Company
In 1916 Keating Owen act was the first federal law regulating
child labor
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 the 1902 strike by the United mine workers President Theodore Roosevelt
ordered federal arbitration
Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot voter ballots were printed and distributed by
political parties
