Early Progressivism

Which of the following factors did Margaret Sanger believe to be the main cause of poverty?

A lack of Family Planning

The most extreme leader in the women's suffrage movement was which of the following individuals?

Alice Paul

William Howard Taft became the first President to also hold which of the following positions in the Federal government?

Chief Justice of The Supreme Court

Taft infuriated Roosevelt and Republican Progressives when he fired which of the following individuals who was serving as head of the U.S. Division of Forestry?

Gifford Pinchot

How did Roosevelt finally resolve the 1902 Coal Strike?

He threatened to send Federal troops to run the private mines in the workers' absence.

The __________ ______________, a settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was one of the most famous of many such institutions, which were devoted to improving living conditions in major cities.

Hull House

Which of the following best describes the main provision of the Nineteenth Amendment?

It guaranteed women's right to vote.

__________________ is known for her role in the promotion of birth control in the late 1910s and 1920s

Margaret Sanger

Which of the following groups were the greatest advocates for the prohibition of alcohol in the United States?

Middle-class women

Which of the following did Wilson call his progressive party platform in the Election of 1912?

New Freedom

Before serving as President, Woodrow Wilson served as the governor of which of the following states?

New Jersey

In 1916, the Federal government created the National ____________ Service to maintain and preserve large areas of land throughout the United States.

Park

William Howard Taft became the first Governor-General of the _______________ in 1900 and later became Secretary of War under Roosevelt.

Philippines

According to the lesson, which of the following best describes the main cause of the failure of Roosevelt's Progressive Party?

Professional politicians distanced themselves from the radical wing of the party.

The Federal _____________ Act of 1913 established a central banking system in the United States for the first time since the 1830s.

Reserve

One of the most extreme democratic reforms in the Progressive Era was the popular election of U.S. _______________, which was established by a constitutional amendment ratified in 1913.

Senators

In one of the best showings from a radical third party in several decades, Eugene V. Debs took no less than 421,000 votes for the ________________ Party.

Socialist

Which of the following issues marked Wilson's first major piece of legislation after he became President?

Tariff Reform

Which of the following describes the main division between the Republican and Democratic Party platforms in the Election of 1908?

The Democrats wanted a lower tariff.

Muckrakers were the most influential Progressive voices in which of the following industries?

The Food and Drug industries

Which of the following gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum freight rates, a reform long wished for among western farmers?

The Hepburn Act of 1906

Upton Sinclair's _______ _____________, published in 1906, was originally intended to promote socialism, but instead inspired reform in the meatpacking industry.

The Jungle

Which of the following events inspired new city and state laws regulating working conditions in factories?

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911

Which of the following best describes the meaning of the term eugenics?

The effort to reduce the number of "unfit" people in society by reducing the number of children born to "undesirable" parents.

Historians have called which of the following the first "modern President?"

Theodore Roosevelt

The Clayton Antitrust Act created the Federal ____________ Commission, which was a stronger version of Roosevelt's Bureau of Corporations with the power to define "unfair trade practices" in order to prosecute businesses who violated fair competition.

Trade

In 1901, an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz assassinated President _____________________ at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

William McKinley

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

a religious movement emphasizing the Church's responsibility to help the poor and marginalized.

Which of the following best describes the political failings of Taft?

a. He fell under the control of Conservative Republicans. b. He was unable to mediate between opposing sides in Congress. c. He was unable to influence others without offending them.

For which of the following reasons was the Election of 1912 particularly significant?

a. It was the first Presidential election to hold party primaries. b. It marked the high point of Progressivism in the United States c. The election was a sign that Democrats were again becoming competitive in national politics.

Which of the following were two Federal laws passed on the same day that created large bureaucracies to enforce sanitation standards of food transported across state borders?

a. The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 b. The Pure Food and Drug Act

Which of the following events led to the decline of optimism in the United States during the Progressive Era?

a. The sinking of the Titanic in 1912 b. World War I

The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 extended the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission over which of the following industries?

a. telegraph b. telephone c. railroads

Which of the following best describes William Howard Taft's career before he entered politics?

lawyer

Though the People's Party dissolved in the late 1890s, their political philosophies still held influence. Which of the following became the most influential Populist goal in the progressive era?

limiting corruption in government

In 1896, the Supreme Court decided in Plessy v. Ferguson that "____________ , but _____________ " facilities for white and black Americans did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment.

separate, equal

Middle and upper class Americans in the 1890s became concerned with the rising influence of _____________, a political philosophy that advocated for government ownership of many businesses and greater social justice for the working class.

socialism