Chapter 18: The Progressive Era

The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?

A mature consumer economy.

The Industrial Workers of the World:

Advocated a workers' revolution

The term "Fordism":

Describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

The federal government enacted most of the era's reform measures.

False

Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?

He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations.

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

Lived in close-knit communities.

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

Muckrakers

In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:

National health insurance.

Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?

The party's proposal to nationalize railroads, banks, and to provide unemployment relief expressed popular progressive thought.

Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

They worked both to expand the electorate and shrink its size through other measures.

Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT:

The annexation of the Philippines

What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

The appearance of malnourished children evacuated from Lawrence shocked the public.

Drawing on the reform programs of the Gilded Age and the example of European legislation, Progressives sought to reinvigorate the idea of an activist, socially conscious government.

True

One particularly influential muckraker was Ida Tarbell, whose book, History of the Standard Oil Company, appeared in 1904.

True

Socialism flourished in places such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

True.

The new woman was college educated, middle class, and devoted to providing social services.

True.

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:

Was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.

After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage:

Included both middle- and working-class women.