Chapter 21
Theodore Roosevelt took a strong activist approach to the presidency.
True
The Seventeenth Amendment:
authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
As president, Taft:
preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
During the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft:
was the Republican candidate
Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:
Christian humanitarianism
Andrew Carnegie wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" to support Social Dawinism.
False
Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.
False
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a tragedy that did not change any safety laws.
False
The Underwood-Simmons Tariff created the first regular federal income tax.
False
Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his program for big business.
False
Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.
False
Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.
False
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is associated with:
National Woman Suffrage Association
During the coal strike of 1902:
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations
Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:
Standard Oil
Booker T. Washington was the most prominent black leader in the early twentieth century.
True
One of Taft and Roosevelt's issues was disagreement over the firing of Pinchot..
True
The Hull House in Chicago was one of the first settlement houses in the United States.
True
Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South.
True
Woodrow Wilson was:
a professor and college president
In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification
Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
regulate big business
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
the Republican party had split in two
The first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women was:
the Wyoming Territory
Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
the poll tax
At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:
workers died as a result of a fire
