Chapter 18 C.A.H.

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Eugene Debs was

A Socialist candidate for president

Electoral reform during the Progressive era

Actually limited many Americans' right to vote

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

All choices are correct

Settlement houses

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The new concepts of a living wage and the American standard of living

Allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power

Which was the Ellis Island of the West?

Angel Island

Margaret Sanger was a

Birth-control advocate

Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century

Clustered in the West as agricultural workers

Carlos Montezuma

Demanded that all Indians be granted full citizenship

Muckrackers

Exposed the underside of American life

During the Progressive era

Growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices

Who pioneered the birth control clinic in the United States?

Margaret Sanger

The Progressive movement drew its strength from

Middle-class reformers

What was NOT a measure advocated by the Socialist Party?

National health insurance

What was the function of the Feminist Alliance?

To free women from the constraints of the home

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

The strikers asked the American Federation of Labor for assistance

The main difference between New Nationalism and New Freedom was over

Regulating versus trust-busting

The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called

Scientific management

Feminism

Sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J.P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?

Theodore Roosevelt

The Progressive presidents were

Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?

William Jennings Bryan

The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was

Upton Sinclair

Robert La Follette's Wisconsin idea

Wanted to tax corporate wealth

In 1912, New Freedom

Was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention

Robert M. Lafollette

Was a Progressive governor in Wisconsin

The battle for free speech in the early twentieth century

Was led by the Industrial Workers of the World

Scientific management

Was pioneered by Frederick W. Taylor

Nickelodeons

We're motion-picture theaters with a 5 cent admission charge

Birds of passage were

Immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland


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