history exam study guide chapter 4

What result of the policy reflected in the cartoon had a negative impact on government control of businesses?

Roosevelt's approach of differentiating good trusts form bad trusts without clear criteria cause controls to be considered unfair.

The 18th and 19th Amendments could be considered grassroots movements because?

Several states had changed their laws to adopt these policies prior to a National Amendment

Which of the following would be an example of a referendum?

Voters turn down enacted income tax hike.

Progressive's viewed the 17th Amendment as a victory because?

It blocked the political corruption of the political bosses from affecting the Senate.

What was the significance of the Hepburn Act, the UMW coal mine strike, and the Northern Securities Case to the Square Deal?

It showed that T. Roosevelt was willing to balance the needs of business, consumers, and labor.

The urban league was patterned off of which progressives social program movement in chicago?

Jane Addams

The Clayton Anti-Trust Act helped identify trusts pracitces specifially and allowed what group to not be considered a monopoly?

Labor Unions

The FED will attempt too break a deflationary cycle by taking what action?

Lowering interest rates & increasing money supply

Some of the FED's primary goal is to?

Maintain price stability and Maintain the money supply

this president was the founding progressive president, whom is often forgotten in the group of four, and helped pass the Erdman Act, which helped labor.

McKinley

Which of the following would be an example of an initiative?

Ohio citizens propose legalized marijuana.

The FED will attempt to break an inflationary cycle by?

Raising interest rates and restricting money supply.

What was the result of the Bull Moose Party in the 1912 election?

the Democrats win the election

The Newland Reclamation Act of 1902 and the Maine supreme court case of 1908 will set a precedent for hat type of government action?

the ability of the government to mandate policies on private property.

Florence Kelly help start WTUL, which helped women gain which of the following?

A minimum wage

Public education and Jane Addams tried to assimilate immigrants during this time by using what type of method?

Americanization

Wilson's policies attacked the Triple Wall of Privilege, which included what three areas?

Banks, Tariffs, Trusts

Which of the following include monetary policies the FED will be responsible for?

Controlling inflation & deflation

The early reform organizations were based on which ideals?

Christianity

Of all the political reforms, which one did Progressives fail in obtaining equality or fairness in?

Civil Rights

Those people that opposed the 19th amendment often use which of the following arguments?

Family life will suffer, Women are not educated or worldly enough to make informed decisions, and this is a socialist movement

The FED is descried as being a centralized banking system that is also decentralized What constitutional principle does this represent?

Federalism

Opponents of the 17th amendment often cite which of the following reasons?

Federalism was weakened, The size of the federal government will go unchecked, State's voice in the national legislature was weakened.

This discriminatory practice was done to eliminate voting blocks by drawing representative district lines to pack or crack a voting block?

Gerrymandering

Most Progressive's were looking to this institution/organization to help facilitate the change and reforms they wanted?

Government

Which of the following pieces of legislation was passed during the progressive era to regulate RxR's by allowing the ICC to monitor shipping rates, which was a win for the populist's?

Hepburn Act

This muckraker was responsibe for taking down Standarrd Oil company for violating anti-trust laws?

Ida Tarbell

How did the direct primary change the nomination process?

It allowed voters to approve the party's candidates

Reformers/Progressives were trying to improve?

Society as a whole

Which of the following progressive presidents is the least progressive and became very conservative by pulling back some of Roosevelt's policies.

Taft

What was the main reason the Roosevelt separated the Republican party and split from the Taft led Republicans?

Taft did not carry out Roosevelt's policies and was not as Progressive as Roosevelt

At the Niagara meeting, which civil rights leaders ideas were not supported and not made the center piece of the movement?

Tarbell

The 16th Amendment gave the U.S. the modern income tax. What form of tax was used before to bring in the majority of U.S. government revenue?

Tariff taxes

One of Wilson's main goals was to reduce tariffs, which of the following aws accomplished this goal?

Underwood ACt

What was one of the causes that inspired civil rights leaders to create the Urbn League to help African Americans in the Northern cities?

The Great Migration

This act was passed to limit the spoils system that pervaded the time period?

The Pendelton Act

Interest essentially is?

The cost of using money.

Which region of the country voted against the 19th amendment fearing they would lose political power to an uneducated minority?

The south

Muckrakers had an enormous impact on the Progressive period because?

They focused on the political corruption of the time, and they managed to get the FDA approved

In passing the voting reforms and the 17th and 19th amendments, Progressives were trying to accomplish which of the following?

To make public officials more accountable, to limit the reach of political machines, and to increase the eligible amount of voters so they could pass their reforms.

Mutualistas helped Mexican americans obtain legal aid, address unfair labor practices and what other service that the Urban League and Anti-Defamation League did not offer?

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