APUSH 28

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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.


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