Chapter 21

Theodore Roosevelt took a strong activist approach to the presidency.

True

The Seventeenth Amendment:

authorized the popular election of U.S. senators

As president, Taft:

preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight

During the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft:

was the Republican candidate

Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:

Christian humanitarianism

Andrew Carnegie wrote "The Gospel of Wealth" to support Social Dawinism.

False

Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.

False

The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was a tragedy that did not change any safety laws.

False

The Underwood-Simmons Tariff created the first regular federal income tax.

False

Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his program for big business.

False

Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.

False

Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.

False

Elizabeth Cady Stanton is associated with:

National Woman Suffrage Association

During the coal strike of 1902:

President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations

Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:

Standard Oil

Booker T. Washington was the most prominent black leader in the early twentieth century.

True

One of Taft and Roosevelt's issues was disagreement over the firing of Pinchot..

True

The Hull House in Chicago was one of the first settlement houses in the United States.

True

Woodrow Wilson was a minister's son who grew up in the South.

True

Woodrow Wilson was:

a professor and college president

In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification

Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

regulate big business

The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:

shifted the U.S. Treasury back to the gold standard

A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:

the Republican party had split in two

The first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women was:

the Wyoming Territory

Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:

the poll tax

At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:

workers died as a result of a fire