History 1302 Chapter 21 REVIEW
Among the reasons why the 1912 election is significant is that
1)all candidates claimed to be progressives. 2)the Socialist candidate, Eugene V. Debs, polled almost a million votes 3)it featured party primaries.
Jane Addams called the impulse to found settlement houses:
Christian humanitarianism
Of the four presidential candidates in 1912, the one most likely to advocate government ownership of big business was
Eugene V Debs
Legislation passed in 1916 did NOT include the
Federal Reserve Act
The progressives' emphasis on efficiency drew on the ideas of
Frederick W. Taylor.
The commission system of city government was first adopted in:
Galveston, Texas
Upon becoming president, Wilson appointed as secretary of the navy:
Josephus Daniels
Elizabeth Cady Stanton is associated with:
National Woman Suffrage Association
The first state to grant woman suffrage east of the Mississippi was
New York
During the coal strike of 1902:
President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against corporations
The major forces behind the social gospel movement were:
Protestants and Catholics
Who stated, "most of us in the North do not believe in any real democracy between white and colored men"?
Ray Stannard Baker
The originator of the Wisconsin idea of efficient government was:
Robert La Follette
As a result of the Brownsville Riot in 1906
Roosevelt discharged the entire regiment of African American soldiers.
Which of the following statements regarding the coal strike of 1902 is NOT true?
Roosevelt once bellowed that "the Constitution is more important than coal!"
Ida M. Tarbell is best known for her investigation of:
Standard oil
The issue that provoked an open break between Taft and Roosevelt was
Taft's firing of Pinchot
The title of the novel that described the terrible conditions of the meat-packing industry was:
The Jungle
Which candidate was shot during the 1912 presidential campaign?
Theodore Roosevelt
The author of Working People and their Employers was:
Washington Gladden
Of the following, who eventually became chief justice of the Supreme Court?
William Howard Taft
WCTU:
Women's Christian Temperance Union
The first place in the United States to extend equal voting rights to women was:
Wyoming territory
Theodore Roosevelt's close friend Gifford Pinchot was:
a forestry expert and leading conservationist
Contrary to his party's tradition, President Taft called for
a lower tariff
Woodrow Wilson was
a professor and college president
During the Progressive Era, the U.S. Supreme Court
agreed to a ten-hour workday for men and women
In the case against the Northern Securities Company, Theodore Roosevelt sought to
break up a major railroad company.
The election of 1912 did all of the following EXCEPT 1) alter the character of the Republican party, making it more conservative 2)signal the return of southerners to national and international affairs for the first time since the Civil War 3) bring the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms 4) offer a high-water mark for progressivism 5) gain effective national power for Democrats for the first time in over half a century
bring the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms
The election of 1912 did all of the following EXCEPT:
bring the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act attempted to regulate trusts by
defining unfair competition.
The Adamson Act of 1916:
established the eight-hour day for railroad workers
Passed in 1906, the Hepburn Act
expanded the interstate Commerce Commission's power over railroad rates
The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
exposing social problems to the public
During his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT:
fail to reorganize the banking system
The National Child Labor Committee pushed:
for laws prohibiting the employment of young children
Around 1916, Wilson renewed his support for progressive reforms because
he needed to build a coalition for reelection.
Seventeenth Amendment
inaugurated (authorized) popular election of senators
The Underwood-Simmons Tariff:
lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson
During the Progressive Era
many groups—blacks, the poor, the unorganized—had little influence
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
outlawed price discrimination and interlocking directorates
In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification
The Federal Highways Act:
passed in 1916
As president, Taft
preserved more public lands in four years than Roosevelt had in nearly eight
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform
proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration
The Triangle Shirtwaist fire spurred interest in laws to
protect workers from accidents.
Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
regulate big business
Despite Josephus Daniels's racist views, President Wilson still nominated Daniels for:
secretary of the navy
Jane Addams was a pioneer in the
settlement house movement
The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
shifted the US treasury back to the gold standard
One of the muckrakers' major achievements was to
stir up popular support for reform
During the 1908 presidential race:
the Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan
Among the catalysts for progressivism were all of the following except
the Old Guard Republicans.
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that
the Republican party had split in two
Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government EXCEPT:
the poll tax
A major factor in Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential campaign was the fact that:
the republican party split into two
Congress established the Bureau of Corporations
to monitor the activities of interstate corporations
To conserve the nation's natural resources, Theodore Roosevelt wanted to
use the techniques of scientific management.
In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:
used the Forest Reserve Act to withdraw over 170 million acres of timberland from logging
William Howard Taft
was Roosevelt's choice as his successor
Louis D. Brandeis:
was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court
During the presidential election of 1912, William Howard Taft
was the republican candidate
President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy
within his own party
Frances Willard lobbied for these issues important to women EXCEPT:
women to become ministers
At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:
workers died as a result of a fire
Frederick W. Taylor:
wrote The Principles of Scientific Management
