Quiz 3

While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that

American society was capable of improvement

In 1920, passage of the Nineteenth Amendment

Gave women the right to vote

In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on

Standard Oil Trust

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform

The so-called Zimmerman telegram

included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico.

The term "muckrakers" referred to

journalists

The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918

made illegal any public expression opposing the war

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

meatpacking industry

During the progressive Era, one of the first targets for political reformers was

municipal governments

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

strict regulations with effective enforcement were imposed on factory owners

During World War 1, the War industries Board (WIB)

coordinated government purchases of military supplies

During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters

deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women

During the progressive Era, the socialist Party of America

grew stronger

President Woodrow Wilson's request to Congress for declaration of War

took place two weeks after German submarines had torpedoed three Americans ships.

In the United State during World war 1, the committee of Public Information (CPI)

Became increasingly sensationalist in its information campaign

World War 1 hurt the socialist movement in the United States

because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country.