HIST 1302- Chapter 18

Birds of passage were: a. immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland b. singled women who worked until they got married c. stowaways on passenger ships, attempting to immigrate to America d. strikebreakers who were sent in by factory workers

A

Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT: a. the annexation of the Philippines b. industrial expansion c. widespread poverty in rural southern and eastern Europe d. political turmoil

A

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire: a. brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation. b. destroyed the business, but there were no casualties. c. was the worst fire in U.S. history. d. resulted in laws that banned all manufacturing within the city limits of New York.

A

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910: a. as a way to describe a loosely defined political movement. b. as an antibusiness term. c. as another term for socialism. d. and represented those who advocated revolution.

A

Vaudeville is a: a. form of live entertainment b. kind of drink served during Prohibition c. a place in New York d. a political machine

A

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan's Northern Securities Co.? a. Theodore Roosevelt b. William Howard Taft c. Louis Brandeis d. Woodrow Wilson

A

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through: a. higher education b. the workplace c. access to birth control d. being a wife and mother

B

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was: a. Henry George b. Upton Sinclair c. Lincoln Steffens d. Lewis Hine

B

To create national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier, the federal government: a. set aside lands that had yet to be inhabited by humans. b. removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands. c. dismantled the Northern Pacific Railroad. d. removed animals from the land.

B

Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities? a. school b. church c. Salvation Army d. benevolent societies

B

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of Progressive reformers: a. Progressives were mainly urban and middle class. b. Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism. c. Progressives were involved in a variety of social, political, and economic reforms d. Progressives implemented several of the reforms advocated earlier in the Gilded Age.

B

Which was the Ellis Island of the West? a. San Diego b. Angel Island c. Alcatraz d. Liberty Island

B

All of the following people were "muckrakers" EXCEPT: a. Lewis Hine b. Upton Sinclair c. Samuel Gompers d. Ida Tarbell

C

During the Progressive era: a. cities declined in importance. b. social reformers concentrated their efforts on rural areas. c. urban development highlighted social inequalities. d. cities competed with rural areas for government projects.

C

Electoral reform during the Progressive era: a. expanded the electorate significantly. b. had little impact in the cities. c. actually limited the right to vote for many Americans. d. enfranchised African Americans.

C

Margaret Sanger was: a. utopian novelist b. prison-reform advocate c. birth-control advocate d. labor organizer

C

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as: a. yellow journalists b. social reformers c. muckrakers d. freelancers

C

The Progressive movement drew its strength from: a. big business b. farmers c. middle-class reformers d. socialists

C

Which person was a Supreme Court justice and Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement: a. Woodrow Wilson b. Samuel Gompers c. Louis Brandeis d. Theodore Roosevelt

C

All of the following statements aout Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT: a. Hull House and other settlement houses provided careers for the "new woman." b. Hull House was modeled after a similar institutions in London. c. Addams built schools for immigrant children, employment bureaus, and health clinics. d. Addams believed that immigrant women primarily needed union protection.

D

Maternalist reform: a. opposed women's suffrage. b. sought to redefine the role of mothers. c. was directed only at black women. d. was supported by both feminists and more traditional women.

D

The Industrial Workers of the World: a. represented skilled workers only b. was led by Eugene Debs c. was a union within the American Federation of Labor d. advocated a worker's revolution

D

The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between: a. the Plains Indians and U.S. army b. the IWW and the Massachusetts police. c. New Orleans dockworkers and the National Guard d. Colorado mine workers and militia

D

The term "Fordism": a. refers to Henry Ford's invention of the automobile. b. describes an economic system based on limited production of high end goods. c. refers to Henry Ford's effort to organize workers into a union. d. describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

D

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century: a. clustered in the West as agricultural workers b. were much more welcome than Eastern European immigrants. c. were prohibited from entering the United States d. clustered in the South as agricultural workers

A