Chapter 21 Take-Home-Test

Recall

A new political reform permitting voters to remove unsatisfactory public officials from office before their term expired is called the ______.

The American Federation of Labor's main source of strength was in:

Skilled Workers Trades.

From 1900 to 1917, the "New Immigrants," who many Americans tried to restrict, came primarily from:

Southern and Eastern Europe.

Which one of the following topics investigated by Progressive muckrakers is accurately linked with its author?

Unsanitary meatpacking by Upton Sinclair.

W.E.B. DuBois

What African-American created the Niagara movement and then later joined with a small group of white reformers to organize the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1910?

William H. Taft

What Republican president was defeated in 1912 when his party split into progressive and conservative factions?

Muckracking

What name was given to journalists who spread reform ideas by developing a new form of investigative reporting?

Theodore Roosevelt

What person praised the "gospel of efficiency" as a way to control or resolve the disorder of industrial society?

Theodore Roosevelt

What president (______) became known as the "trust buster" because he favored government regulations to prevent corporate abuses and he called for a "Square Deal" for all Americans including both labor and management, and government acting as a steward of the public?

All of the following were reform measures enacted in the Wilson Administration:

1.) Federal Trade Commission Act. 2.) Federal Reserve Act. 3.) Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act.

All of the following were state government electoral reforms designed to give people a more direct voice in politics and government:

1.) Initiative and Referendum. 2.) Seventeenth Amendment. 3.) Recall.

All of the following were tactics used by the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.):

1.) Sit-Down Strike. 2.) Sit-Ins. 3.) Mass Rallies.

Frederick Taylor's scientific management emphasized all of the following ideas:

1.) Speeding up the production process. 2.) Increasing the mechanization of factories. 3.) Assigning simple, repetitive tasks to workers.

Eighteenth Amendment

Congress approved the ______ Amendment which made Prohibition the law of the land in 1920.

What 1913 congressional act created a system of twelve regional banks and a national board to control the money supply?

Federal Reserve Act

In the coal strike of 1902, Theodore Roosevelt...

Followed Cleveland's precedent of deploying federal troops.

What company did the Theodore Roosevelt Administration file its most famous antitrust suit against for violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Act in 1902-1904?

Northern Securities Company

Australian Ballot

Reformers who called for use of the ______ ballot succeeded in getting the right of voters to have privacy in the voting process.

Sixteenth Amendment

The ______ Amendment in 1913 granted Congress the authority to tax income.

Settlement Houses

The spearheads for social reform were ______, community centers in urban immigrant neighborhoods.