Module 3
Which U.S. presidents enforced the Sherman Antitrust Act during the Progressive Era?
Theodore Roosevelt
Who served as president during part of the Progressive era?
Theodore Roosevelt
Why did Progressives work to disrupt or disable political machines?
They interfered with efforts to hold government officials accountable to constituents.
By 1917 _______ of states had some sort of prohibition on alcohol
Two thirds
Pinchot's family funded a graduate forestry program at _______ university
Yale
Hetch Hetchy valley is located in _________
Yosemite national park
What did the Sixteenth Amendment to the US Constitution establish?
a federal income tax
Which of the following people developed the land ethic?
Aldo Leopold
Who pioneered the concept of the land ethic?
Aldo Leopold
Which women's suffrage movement leader picketed the White House in order to get support the cause?
Alice Paul
pichot founded the ______
American society of Foresters
Which goal of the Progressive movement was achieved by reducing the power of political machines?
Attacking political machines helped advance the goal of holding elected officials accountable to all of the people they were supposed to represent (not just those individuals who were loyal to the machine).
_________ proposed prohibition
Catholics
Who helped to found the Audubon Society?
George Bird Grinnell
Which of the following people was the first chief of the US Forest service?
Gifford Pinchot
George Grinnell was very interested in Native American ways of life, but he was also considered a social Darwinist. What was his likely motivation for studying and writing about the Cheyenne people and other tribes?
Grinnell probably believed that the displacement or even destruction of Native American peoples was inevitable. Therefore, he likely wanted to capture a detailed picture of a culture that would soon disappear.
__________ ran political machines
bosses
The _______ act prohibited the sale of alcohol near military bases
conscription
How many amendments did the Progressives manage to make to the U.S. Constitution?
four
Carrie nation carried a ______ and a bible
hatchet
Which of the following organizations marked the beginning of the conservation movement?
he Boone and Crockett Club
in 1913 president Wilson signed into law the _______ which would authorize the Hetch Hetchy project
Raker act
The Hetch Hetchy Valley was chosen to provide water to which of the following cities?
San Francisco
The Hetch Hetchy act was designed to supply water to _______
San fransisco
pinchot applied principles of ______ to the problem of maintaining and utilizing forests as a natural resource
Scientific management
How did the scientific management or "efficiency movement" affect workers?
Scientific management, or Taylorisim, did increase worker efficiency, but the practice also limited workers' freedom and made some employees uncomfortable. The scrutiny on physical performance and personal mannerisms, combined with rigid expectations regarding a new process, tended to increase workers' stress.
Which amendment to the Constitution provided for the direct election of U.S. senators?
Seventeenth
John muir and Seirra Club ______ the Hetch Hetchy project
opposed
Which phenomenon did Progressives try to disable in large cities?
political machines
Which of the following techniques was used to increase efficiency in factories?
scientific management
Gifford Pinchot headed ______ under president roosevelt
the US forest service
during Pinchots term, the U.S. Forest service moved from its original department to __________
the department of agriculture
What other Progressive-Era movement most influenced early environmentalists?
the scientific management movement, which favored scientific approaches to solving problems
Boss ________ is most famous for his role running New York City's Tammany Hall.
tweed
What possible contradiction exists between the first and fourth goals of the Boone and Crockett Club--at least from a modern perspective?
Some modern environmentalists might consider hunting and preserving animal species to be contradictory aims. However, the conservation wing of the early environmentalist movement did not see a contradiction. Its members, including Theodore Roosevelt, were avid hunters, but they opposed over-hunting of any species, including the American bison. Today, some environmental groups such as Ducks Unlimited, to which many hunters belong, share a similar perspective to that of the Boone and Crockett Club.
Which organization was formed in 1869?
National Woman Suffrage Association
Which amendment to the Constitution guaranteed women the right to vote?
Nineteenth
Which of the following Amendments to the US Constitution gave women the right to vote?
Nineteenth
_______ Dam was constructed in the Hetch Hetchy valley to create a reservoir
O'Shaughnessy
political machines often had ties to ________
Organized crime
__________ refers to jobs and other services offered to Machine members in exchange for votes
Patronage
Prohibition did not ban the _______ of alcohol
Consumption
Which amendment to the Constitution banned the sale of alcohol in the United States?
Eighteenth Amendment
Who helped draft the Seneca Falls Declaration of 1848, which called for women's equality?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Tammany Hall helped the ______ to become assimilated to the United States.
Irish
Why did Mather feel he needed to start a publicity campaign to protect the country's national parks?
It would take an act of Congress to create a National Park Service. A publicity campaign was directed at American citizens, encouraging them to voice their support for such an organization and perhaps to call their representative in Congress.
The Sierra Club was co-founded by which of the following people?
John Muir
Which organization did Theodore Roosevelt help found in 1887?
The Boone and Crockett Club
The National Park Service comes under the jurisdiction of which department of the federal government?
The Department of Interior
What were the long-term impacts of the Federal Income Tax on the United States?
The Federal Income Tax had two effects: First, it moved the federal government away from depending on tariffs for revenue. Second, it began a very slow process of redistribution of wealth from the very wealthiest Americans to the very poorest (in the forms of services).
Which novel helped to clean up the meatpacking industry?
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair
Which agency doe the Department of Interior run?
The National Park Service