Chapter 29

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Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel Gompers called the ? "Labor's Magna Carta"?

Clayton Anti-Trust Act

While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the?

Square Deal

According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most important and enduring achievement may have been?

conserving American resources and protecting the environment

Besides lowering tariff rates, the Underwood Tariff Act reflected Wilson's progressive goals by?

creating an optional retirement system for workers

The case of Lochner v New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court?

declared a law limiting work to 10 hours a day unconstitutional

In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic platform that included all of the following except a call for?

dollar diplomacy

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed?

dollar diplomacy

The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to?

end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts

As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except?

guaranteed recognition of labor unions

German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning?

in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany

The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to?

issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates

Most muckraker believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to?

make the public aware of social problems

Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a?

middle of the road reformer

Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's fundamental approach to American foreign policy?

moralistic

According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was?

more democracy

The central provision of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?

outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchasers

The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to?

prove that the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States

During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following except?

substantially weaken corporate capitalism

Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism?

supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business

From 1914 to 1916, America's growing trade with Britain and loss of trade with Germany essentially occurred because?

the British navy controlled the Atlantic shipping lanes

The multiple use conservationists generally believed that?

the environment could be effectively protected without shutting it off to human use

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

When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received strong support from the?

working class and former Progressive Bull Moose party members

In Muller v Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that?

female workers required special rules and protection on the job

Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be described as?

having strong faith in them if the were properly educated and led

When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that?

money for lending was inelastic and heavily concentrated in NYC

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the?

plight of workers in the stockyards and meat packing industry

The Federal Trade Commission was established in 1914 to address all of these practices except?

sale of stocks without full disclosure of a business's organization and profits

To regain the power that the people had lost to the interests, progressives advocated all of the following except?

socialism

Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because?

William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies

Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the following except?

a belief that compromise was necessary to be an effective leader

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by?

accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy

As WWI began in Europe, the alliance system placed Germany and Austria-Hungary as leaders of the ?, while Russia and France were among the?

Central Powers, Allies

Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?

ending special regulations governing women in the workplace

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?

favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the busting of monopolies

The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to?

use the government as an agency of human welfare

Progressivism?

was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes


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