AMH CHAPTER 18

The triangle shirtwaist fire:

brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.

The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:

was led by the Industrial Workers of the World

The term "Fordism"

Describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption

In the first decade of the twentieth century, American farm communities

Entered a "golden age" bc of rising ur am demand for farm goods

Charlotte Perkins Gilman argued that economic independence for women did not necessarily mean a change in the home and family relationships

False

Compared with the AFL, the industrial workers of the world union was conservative for its day

False

Henry Ford paid his employees five dollars a day because he wished to avoid strikes at his factory.

False

Louis Brandeis was an enemy of the labor movement and led the Supreme Court in its many pro business decisions

False

New sexual attitudes during the Progressive age were limited to the radical bohemia of New York's Greenwich Village.

False

The ability to buy consumer goods had nothing to do with the progressive era union fight for higher wages

False

The doors were locked at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company on the day of the fire because the manager tragically forgot to unlock them when he arrived in the morning.

False

How did mass consumption in the Progressive era result in new consumer freedoms?

Farmers in the heartland has more time and money to attend Nickelodeon shows AND department stores provided city residents with access to electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners

Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward looking corporate leaders?

He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations

Why did millions of American farm families migrate westward from 1900 to 1910?

Irrigation technology was successfully implemented in the American Southwest AND the availability of free land meant more opportunities for commercial farming in the west

Why did socialist party gain significant political influence during the progressive era

Jewish and other immigrant laborers across the country supported its fight against economic exploitation of workers

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

Muckrakers

How did "nickelodeons" reflect a mass consumption society in the Progressive era?

Nickelodeons offered a popular and less expensive leisure activity for urban residents

Artists captured the transformation of urban landscapes in the progressive era through all of the following except:

Photographs of theaters

Labor agents:

Provided American employers with workers who signed long term labor contracts

Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.

Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early 20th century is not true

Southerners fully participated in the mass consumption society

During the progressive era, the working woman became a Symbol of female emancipation

TRUE

Which statement about the American federation of labor in the early 20th century is false ?

The AFL proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system

Progressive era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following except :

The annexation of the Philippines

What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachussets ?

The appearance of malnourished children who had been evacurated from Lawrence's shocked the public

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachussets in 1912 is FALSE ?

The strikers asked the American federation of labor for assistance

Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:

The workplace

By 1914, socialism had made such inroads in popularity that the US Congress has a socialist representative

True

In 1912, the socialist weekly newspaper Appeal to reason was the largest paper in the country

True

Like the abolitionist movement before it, the labor movement, in the name of freedom, demanded the right to assemble, organize, and spread its views.

True

Margaret Sanger was sentenced to a month in jail for opening a clinic in Brooklyn that distributed birth control devices to poor immigrant women

True

One particularly influential muckraker was ida tarbell; whose book the history of the standard oil company appeared in 1904

True

Progressive era immigration formed part of a larger process of worldwide migration that was set in motion by industrial expansion and the decline of traditional agriculture

True

Socialism flourished in places such as Milwaukee and New York during the first two decades of the twentieth century.

True

The writer who's work encouraged the passage of the meat inspection act was

Upton Sinclair

Why was "the city" the focus of orefressoge politics

Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and the most significant changes

Working women experienced new freedoms in the Progressive era because:

Young immigrant factory workers gained independence from the traditional control of their fathers AND employment opened up to married white women

The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?

A mature consumer economy

Industrial freedom in the progressive era meant:

A rise in union activism AND a loss of personal autonomy for skilled workers working under scientific management

The ludlow massacre was a tragic confrontation between:

Colorado mine workers and militia

During the Progressive era:

growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices

By 1912, the Socialist Party:

had elected scores of local officials

Birds of passage were :

immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century:

lived in close-knit communities

The progressive movement drew its strength from:

middle-class reformers

In the early twentieth century, the socialist party advocated for all of the following except:

national health insurance

During the Progressive era:

new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.

Industrial Workers of the World:

advocated a workers' revolution

The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:

as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:

clustered in the West as agricultural workers