History 19

What 1908 event prompted a meeting that eventually led to the establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

A race riot in Springfield, Illinois, hometown of Abraham Lincoln

What statement assesses Woodrow Wilson's orientation toward the African Americans who had supported his candidacy in 1912?

He betrayed them by implementing new discriminatory hiring practies

How did Woodrow Wilson address the instability of the banking system in the United States during his first term in office?

He created a the Federal Reserve system

How did Theodore Roosevelt, an unabashed believer in "Anglo-Saxon" superiority, incur the wrath of white supremacists during his presidency?

He invited African American Booker T. Washington to dine at the White House.

Which Harvard-educated sociologist called for a talented tenth of educated blacks to develop a new strategy to achieve black equal rights?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Who of the following was a prominent advocate for African American civil rights and argued that a talented tenth of educated blacks should develop new strategies for the twentieth century?

W. E. B. Du Bois

What did Theodore Roosevelt threaten during the bitter 1902 coal strike to force mine owners to negotiate with the miners' union?

To nationalize the big coal companies

The new income tax Congress passed in the first year of the Wilson administration affected what proportion of American households?

5 percent

Through what means did Wobblies believe they could begin the process that would overthrow American capitalism

A huge general strike

In 1912, which group did Woodrow Wilson betray even though they had supported him in the election?

African Americans

How did the National Child Labor Committee bring national attention to child welfare issues during the first decade of the twentieth century?

By hiring a photographer to document children's brutal working conditions

The Adamson Act of achieved what reforms that workers had been demanding since the mid-nineteenth century

An eight-hour day

How did progressives in the United States enact a federal income tax in 1913 after the Supreme Court rejected it during the 1890s?

By proposing a constitutional amendment that was ratified by the states in 1913

Who was the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the first decade of the 1900s?

Bill Haywood

The Clayton Antitrust Act (1914) strengthened the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) through

Broadening the definition of an illegal trust

Why did the United States lag behind Europe in implementing key social welfare programs during the first three decades of the twentieth century?

Business interests in the United States were exceptionally powerful

According to the 1913 report issued by the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, what caused industrial violence?

Employers' antiunionism

Theodore Roosevelt faced which other minor party candidate in the U.S. presidential election of 1912?

Eugene V. Debs

Which 1913 legislation re-created the national banking system that had been absent since the 1830s?

Federal reserve act

Theodore Roosevelt's policies toward large industries differed from those of his predecessor, William McKinley, and other Republicans in the previous twenty years in that Roosevelt

Felt that monopolies were natural but needed government regulation

In which political office had Theodore Roosevelt served before he became William McKinley's running mate in the U.S. presidential election of 1900?

Govener of New York

Which statement reflects President Woodrow Wilson's perspective when he took office in 1913?

Industrialization was the source of many social problems

What was significant about the report issued by the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations in 1913?

It helped set a new national agenda for American Workers and unions

Why was the income tax instituted during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson called a progressive tax?

It implemented tax rates that rose progressively along with income levels.

Who was "the people's lawyer" recruited by the National Consumers' League to argue the Muller v. Oregon case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1908?

Louis Brandeis

Why did the Supreme Court focus on women's labor rights in the early 1900s, especially in Muller v. Oregon (1908)?

Louis Brandeis wrote a brief emphasized maternity

One of the National Consumers' League's greatest triumphs was the Supreme Court's decision in 1908 in which case?

Muller v. Oregon

What was Woodrow Wilson's program called in the 1912 presidential election?

New freedom

What did Theodore Roosevelt achieve when he persuaded the U.S. Congress to pass the Hepburn Act in 1906?

New powers for interstate commerece commission

The Woodrow Wilson administration secured passage of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 to achieve what goal?

Prevent trusts from curbing competition

What did the Interstate Commerce Commission have the authority to regulate as a result of passage of the Hepburn Act in 1906?

Railroad shipping rates

Race riots in which city catalyzed the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909?

Springfield, Illinois

During his 1904 campaign, Theodore Roosevelt called for corporate regulation and consumer and environmental protection, which he called the

Square deal

In 1911, which large national firm was broken up by the Supreme Court as a result of prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act?

Standard oil

Where did many of the progressive ideas that were ultimately implemented in the United States at the federal level originate?

State governments

With regard to strategies and tactics, the International Workers of the World (IWW) differed from the Knights of Labor in that the IWW

Supported marxist class struggle

Which piece of legislation specified that labor unions could not be prosecuted for "restraint of trade?"

The Clayton Antitrust act

Which organization was created in 1909 to assist in the push for civil rights of African Americans throughout the United States?

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP

Which organization assisted blacks living in northern cities?

The National Urban League

Why did Woodrow Wilson win the election of 1912

The Republican Vote was divided between the incumbent and the progressive party challenger Theodore Roosevelt

What was the significance of the "Brandeis brief" that Louis Brandeis submitted to the U.S. Supreme Court to support his work on the Muller v. Oregon case in 1908?

The brief cleared the way for the use of social science research in court decisions.

The U.S. Department of Labor created which of the following bureaus in 1912?

The children's bureau

Why did W. E. B. Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter meet with other African Americans at Niagara Falls in Canada to discuss racial equality in the United States?

They could not gain entrance into a US hotel

Which statement describes the impact of progressives on the United States by 1917?tremendous success in their efforts to reform industrial America

They drew blueprints for a modern American State whose powers suited an industrial era

Why did the Republican Party bosses choose Theodore Roosevelt as William McKinley's vice president in the election of 1900?

They were hoping to silence this new political star.

Who of the following was a prominent advocate for African American civil rights and argued that a talented tenth of educated blacks should develop new strategies for the twentieth century?

W. E. B. Du Boi

Who stated in 1914 that Americans had "no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn't made for a simpler age"?

Walter Lippman

Who was Theodore Roosevelt's hand-picked successor as president of the United States in 1908?

William Howard Taft

Republican governor Robert La Follette helped pass important reform laws in which state?

Wisconsin

Before the implementation of a federal income tax in 1913, how did the U.S. government derive most of its revenue

With high tariffs on imported goods