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To conserve energy, the Fuel Administration shortened workweeks for factories that did not make war materials and introduced

daylight savings time.

Theodore Roosevelt warned William Howard Taft that tariff reform would

divide the Republican Party

In World War I, __________ were battles in the air between aircraft with attached machine guns.

dogfights

Theodore Roosevelt

established five new national parks and 51 wildlife reservations

Taft set up the Bureau of Mines to monitor the activities of mining companies, protect waterpower sites from private development, and

expand the national forests.

A new government agency, the Committee on Public Information, had the task of establishing penalties and prison terms for anyone who gave aid to the enemy.

false

After the war, people raced to buy goods that had been rationed, while businesses rapidly raised prices they had been forced to keep low during the war. This resulted in rapid deflation.

false

Calvin Coolidge's sentiments of returning to normalcy struck a chord with voters, and he won the election of 1920 with a landslide margin.

false

The War Industries Board worked closely with women and African Americans to help them gain civil rights.

false

The most conspicuous limit to progressivism came in its failure to address economic reform issues

false

To help prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the Committee on Public Information in April 1918.

false

Woodrow Wilson entered politics as a firm conservative

false

Woodrow Wilson wanted the Federal Trade Commission to break up big business

false

To restore public confidence in the banking system, Wilson supported the establishment of a

federal reserve system.

What was used to defend soldiers against the use of mustard gas and chlorine bombs during World War I?

gas masks

Four-Minute Men

gave patriotic speeches urging support of war effort

contraband

goods prohibited from shipment to Germany or its allies

Nineteenth Amendment

guaranteed women the right to vote

Americans often linked radicalism with

immigrants

propoganda

information designed to influence opinion

Children's Bureau

investigated and publicized problems with child labor

According to the Selective Service Act, the order in which men were called to service was determined by

lottery.

Sixteenth Amendment

made it legal for the federal government to tax the income of individuals directly

Liberty Bonds

method of loaning money to the government to pay for war

What were crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption called?

muckrakers

Jacob Riis's book How the Other Half Lives was an example of what Theodore Roosevelt called

muckraking.

Meat Inspection Act

passed in response to The Jungle

One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned

price discrimination

Seventeenth Amendment

provided for the direct election of U.S. senators

In addition to the soldiers returning from Europe who needed to find employment, many African Americans who had moved north were competing for jobs and housing, which resulted in

race riots.

The Adamson Act established an eight-hour workday for

railroad workers

Which progressive government reform allowed voters to vote directly on proposed laws

referendum

Realizing a draft was necessary, Congress created a new system of conscription called

selective service

The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to

sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits.

One of the largest strikes in American history began when steel workers went on strike for recognition of their union, higher pay, and

shorter hours.

espionage

spying to acquire government secrets

Ferdinand Foch

supreme commander of the Allied forces

"Selling" the war to the American people was the task of

the Committee on Public Information

Criticism of the war at home was effectively silenced by

the Espionage and Sedition Acts.

What did progressives think needed to play a more active role in solving society's problems?

the government

The Constitution originally specified that, in each state, U.S. senators would be elected by

the legislature of each state

The Great Migration during World War I was the flow of

African Americans moving from the South to Northern cities.

In 1908 the Serbs became furious when

Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia

Vladimir Lenin

Bolshevik leader

During World War I, a group called the _____________ took power in Russia and established a Communist government.

Bolsheviks

Gavrilo Princip

Bosnian revolutionary behind assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Lusitania

British ship sunk by Germany, killing over 1,000 passengers

In November 1917, Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik Party seized power in Russia and established a

Communist government.

The British entered World War I when

German troops crossed into Belgium.

Perhaps the most successful government agency during this time was the Food Administration, which was run by

Herbert Hoover.

President Wilson called for the creation of a "general association of nations" known as the

League of Nations.

To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the

National War Labor Board

A meeting in 1905 that included W.E.B. Du Bois and other African American leaders to demand full political rights and responsibilities for African Americans resulted in the launching of the

Niagara Movement

In early 1902, Roosevelt ordered his attorney general to file a lawsuit under the Sherman Antitrust Act against

Northern Securities

Wisconsin became a model of political reform under the leadership of

Robert M. La Follette

What law reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30 percent of the value of the goods?

Underwood Tariff Act

What two new forms of warfare were introduced during World War I?

aerial combat and gas attacks

In the coal strike of 1902, the United Mine Workers agreed to accept ______________________, a settlement negotiated by an outside party, but the mine owners refused.

arbitration

What was the only group of women in the military sent overseas in World War I?

army nurses

Woodrow Wilson

as governor of New Jersey, he introduced many progressive reforms

prohibition

banned the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol

The tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to

building codes requiring fire escapes.

The Keating-Owen Act was passed in order to regulate

child labor

During World War I, women officially served in the armed forces for the first time in

clerical and nursing positions

In what area did Taft's contributions equal or surpass Roosevelt's?

conservation

War Industries Board

coordinated the production of war materials

Who walked off the job in Boston in what was perhaps the most famous strike of 1919?

the police force.

Richard A. Ballinger

tried to open nearly a million acres of public land to private development

By intervening in the labor dispute surrounding the coal strike of 1902, Roosevelt had taken the first step toward establishing the federal government as an honest broker between powerful groups in society.

true

By the end of the Progressive Era, Americans expected the government, particularly the federal government, to play a more active role in regulating the economy and solving social problems.

true

In international affairs, Theodore Roosevelt was a Social Darwinist

true

In the aftermath of World War I, unions in Seattle organized a general strike.

true

In the election of 1912, Woodrow Wilson called his program the New Freedom

true

The Palmer Raids were in response to a series of bombs and rising tension due to The Red Scare.

true

The Red Scare was a nationwide panic that arose from the fear that Communists might seize power in the United States.

true

To help fund the war effort, Congress raised income tax rates.

true

Alice Paul was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempts to

use protests to force suffrage

World War I was the first war in which

women officially served in the armed forces.

Ida Tarbell

wrote articles criticizing Standard Oi


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