HIS 122 Chapter 21 Study Guide
Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:
Christian humanitarianism
Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was:
Eugene V. Debs
Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.
False
During the coal strike of 1902:
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations
The major forces behind the social gospel movement were:
Protestants and Catholics
As a result of the Brownsville Riot in 1906:
Roosevelt discharged the entire regiment of African American soldiers
Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:
Standard Oil
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:
The Jungle
Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?
Theodore Roosevelt
Booker T. Washington was the most prominent black leader in the early twentieth century.
True
Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South
True
among the varied sources of progressivism were populism and the Mugwumps.
True
Of the following, who eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft
The Seventeenth Amendment:
authorized the popular election of U.S. senators
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
exposing social problems to the public
The National Child Labor Committee pushed:
for laws prohibiting the employment of young children
During the Progressive Era:
many groups—blacks, the poor, the unorganized—had little influence
In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification
As president, Taft:
preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:
proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
Despite Josephus Daniels's racist views, President Wilson still nominated Daniels for:
secretary of the navy
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is associated with:
the National Woman Suffrage Association
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
The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
true
In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:
used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from logging
Louis D. Brandeis:
was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court
