US History Chapter 17 "The Progressive Era"
Many Progressives who followed Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Gospel program believed that
Christianity should be the basis of social reform.
Which woman founded the National Association of Colored Women to help African American families and those who were less fortunate?
Ida B. Wells
What social problem did Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle describe?
The living and working conditions in Chicago's stockyards
W.E.B. Du Bois was an outspoken critic of
Booker T. Washington/segregation.
How did Wilson compensate for the reduced government income resulting from his lowering of tariffs?
Creating an income tax
Which political party did Woodrow Wilson represent in the 1912 presidential election?
Democratic
Wilson's New Freedom worked to improve which of the following?
Economic policy
Which of the following describes the Urban League?
Focused on helping poor African American workers
Which of the following statements about Woodrow Wilson is true?
He wanted to place strict government controls on corporations.
Which group formed the Anti-Defamation League to defend itself against verbal attacks and false statements?
Jewish Americans
Which event led to the formation of the NAACP?
The 1908 Springfield riot
Which of the following resulted from the 1913 coal miners' strike in Ludlow?
The Colorado National Guard opened fire on the miner's tent city
Which legislation gave the government the authority to set and limit shipping costs?
The Hepburn Act
Why did the United States banking system need to be reformed in the early 1900s?
The nation had no central authority over banks
What was one goal of the Americanization movement during the Progressive Era?
To make immigrants more loyal and moral citizens
For what purpose was the Women's Christian Temperance Union formed?
To protect the home and ban liquor
Which reform resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?
Worker's compensation laws
Under President William Howard Taft, the federal government
brought lawsuits against many corporations.
Theodore Roosevelt supported powerful corporations that
did business fairly.
Progressives that promoted Americanization efforts
encouraged immigrants to follow white, middle-class ways of life.
The concept of "rational use" suggested that
forests be preserved for public use.
Naturalist novels
honestly portrayed human misery and the struggles of common people.
Progressive women reformers worked to
limit the workday.
The 1903 Muller v. Oregon decision upheld
limited work hours for women.
Wilson tried to protect workers by
lowering import tariffs.
During the 1902 coal miners' strike in Pennsylvania, President Roosevelt
ordered the National Guard to stop the strike.
Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who built corrupt organizations called
political machines.
President Wilson pushed for the passage of the Adamson Act to
prevent a nationwide railroad strike.
The NWP and the NAWSA primarily differed in their
strategies.
What was one way Progressives differed from Populists?
Progressives were typically middle class city dwellers, and Populists were mostly farmers
The efforts of the Women's Christian Temperance Union eventually led to which change?
Prohibition
Industrial workers often labored
with unsafe machinery.
Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?
Women's suffrage
Why did minority groups receive limited benefits from Progressivism?
Many Progressives held racist ideas about minority groups
Which of the following resulted from the passage of the Dawes Act in 1887?
Native American reservations were divided into smaller plots
Which of the following reformers outlined the Social Gospel in a book entitled Christianity and the Social Crisis?
Walter Rauschenbusch
The National Reclamation Act directly affected the management of which natural resource?
Water
In 1914, Congress formed the Federal Trade Commission to
watch potential monopolies.
