Chapter 20 Questions
In "Parties and Interest Groups," the author, Alan Brinkley, argues that during the Progressive Era, political "interest groups,"
1. Other power centers formed replacing decline of 1. voter turnout 2. Party bosses lost most of their authority. 2. Were new organizations that formed outside the platform party
The Sierra Club was founded by
John Muir
The term "muckrakers" referred to
Journalists
During the Progressive era, club women often
Lobbied for congressional anti-lynching legislation
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the
Meatpacking Industry
During the early twentieth century progressive era, the Socialist Party of America
Gained considerable strength as a third party even though they would never threaten the two established parties.
In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for
Greater activism by the federal government
At the heart of Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,
He desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities
In "Western Progressives," the author, Alan Brinkley, argues that a slate of progressive reformers from western states would include
Hiram Johnson, George Norris, William Borah
Alice Paul and the National Women's Party
Never accepted the relatively conservative "separate sphere" justification for suffrage.
The initiative and referendum were Progressive Era political reforms designed to weaken the power of
The legislature.
World War 1 hurt the socialist movement in the United States
The war generate anti-radical feelings in the country
The Federal Trade Commission Act
created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government
The 1916 Keating-Owen Act wast the first federal law regulating
Child labor
At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement
Directed their attention at improving their living conditions
The term "Boston marriage" referred to
Two women who lived together
The Women's Christian Temperance Union
Was 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
In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft
was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him
The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff
was intended to weaken the power of business trusts