Chapter 28 Quizzes
Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen 1. "bloated trusts" B. Jack London 2. slum conditions C. Jacob Riis 3. "conspicuous consumption" D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 4. destruction of nature
A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
Square Deal
The Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving
Standard Oil
Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the
The Newlands Act
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was especially facilitated by the publication of
Upton Sinclairs The Jungle
The "real heart" of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to
Use the government as an agency of human welfare
Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies
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.
The panic of 1907 stimulated reform in __________ policy
banking
In Muller 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
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring achievement may have been
his efforts supporting the environment
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 all of 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 out cry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist tire 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 following except
socialism
The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they
sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it.
During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following except
tame capitalism
The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the
the Greenback Labor party and the populists
The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was
the Womens 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 and 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
Progressivism
was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes
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.
Teddy Roosevelt believed that trusts
were here to stay with their efficient means of production
Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. A. David G. Phillips 1. The United States Senate B. Ida Tarbell 2. The Standard Oil Company C. Lincoln Steffens 3. City governments D. Ray Stannard Baker 4. The condition of blacks
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Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as
a middle-of-the-road reformer
All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except
abolishing special workplace protections for women
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
control of labor
The idea of "multiple-use resource management" included all of the following practices except
damming of rivers
The case of Lochner 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 the Seventeenth amendment added to the Constitution, which provided for
direct election of senators
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
dollar diplomacy
Political progressivism
emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of government
Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?
ending special regulations governing women in the workplace
