APUSH 28
What did Ida Tarbell write about?
Standard Oil Company
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
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring, tangible achievement may have been
his efforts supporting the environment.
Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to
make the public aware of social problems.
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 outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire 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.
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the
square deal.
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 Women's 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.
Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities,"
unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.
As one progressive explained, the "real heart" of the progressive movement was to
use the government as an agency of human welfare.
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.
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated by the publication of
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because
William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's policies.
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except
control of labor.