Chapter 28
Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. ___ A. David G. Phillips ___ B. Ida Tarbell ___ C. Lincoln Steffens ___ D. Ray Stannard Baker 1. the United States Senate 2. the Standard Oil Company 3. city governments 4. the condition of blacks
A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. ___ A. Thorstein Veblen ___ B. Jack London ___ C. Jacob Riis ___ D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 1. "bloated trusts" 2. slum conditions 3. "conspicuous consumption" 4. destruction of nature
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the
Newlands Act
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
Square Deal.
The Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in restraint-of-trade cases was handed down in a case involving
Standard Oil.
Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he
announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president.
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the followingexcept
control of labor.
The idea of "multiple-use resource management" included all of the following practices except
damming of rivers.
The case ofLochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in its ruling
declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional.
The progressive movement was instrumental in getting both the Seventeenth and Eighteenth amendments added to the Constitution. The Seventeenth called for__________, and the Eighteenth called for__________.
direct election of senators, prohibition
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
dollar diplomacy.
Political progressivism
emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of government.
18. Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
ending special regulations governing women in the workplace
InMuller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
female workers required special rules and protection on the job
Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives' highest priority was
governmental efficiency.
While president, Theodore Roosevelt
greatly increased the power and prestige of the presidency.
The Progressive Party is mostly politically rooted in
greenback labor party and the populists
The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they
introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns.
Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to
make the public aware of social problems.
Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the
middle class.
According to progressives, the cure for American democracy's ills was
more democracy.
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the
plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry.
The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to
prove that the government, not private business, ruled the country.
The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of
railroad regulation
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of __________ trusts.
regulating
The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass
safety regulations and workmen's compensation laws for job injuries.
To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests," progressives advocated all of the followingexcept
socialism.
8. The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they
sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic controls
4. Progressivism
supported many reforms advocated by feminists
41. During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt did all of the following except
tame capitalism
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring, tangible achievement may have been
the Panama Canal.
The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal strike in 1902 was that
the national government did not automatically side with the owners in the dispute.
Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of
their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.
Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by
threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.
Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities,"
unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.
As one progressive explained, the "real heart" of the progressive movement was to
use the government as an agency of human welfare.
The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government
was designed to remove politics from municipal administration.
As president, William Howard Taft
was wedded more to the status quo than to change.
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated by the publication of
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies.
All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except
abolishing special workplace protections for women.