Chapter 22 - Progressive Era

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Matching

Match each item with the correct statement below.

a.	socialism	f.	Upton Sinclair
b.	William McKinley	g.	William H. Taft
c.	capitalism	h.	William Gorgas
d.	Pancho Villa	i.	Theodore Roosevelt
e.	Woodrow Wilson	j.	nonpartisan

Offered America a “Square Deal.”

Exposed unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry in “The Jungle.”

Only American to serve as President and as Chief Justice.

Multiple Choice

Identify the letter of the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

The Sixteenth Amendment is the

a.	women’s suffrage amendment.
b.	prohibition amendment.
c.	direct election of senators amendment.
d.	income tax amendment.

A cartoon in 1912 commented on the presidential election with an animal “equation.” The cartoon showed a Republican elephant divided by a Bull Moose equaling a Democratic donkey. The cartoonist’s opinion was probably that

a.	Roosevelt split the Republican vote and made Wilson the winner.
b.	Wilson’s political philosophy put him somewhere in the middle between Roosevelt’s radicalism and Taft’s conservatism.
c.	Wilson would accomplish as much as Roosevelt and Taft added together.
d.	The Bull Moose party could not have survived without the help of the Republican party.

The Seventeenth Amendment allowed

a.	women to vote.	c.	an income tax.
b.	direct election of senators.	d.	recall, initiative, and referendum.

What was the focus of the Progressive Movement during the early 1900’s?

a.	political and economic reforms	c.	more powerful poltical machines
b.	laissez-faire economic policies (hands on)	d.	laws restricting the voting power of naturalized citizens

How did the muckrakers affect the progressive reform movement?

a.	They helped the movement by generating popular support for reform (creating awareness).	c.	They harmed the movement by exposing its corrupt leadership.
b.	They harmed the movement with their radical beliefs.	d.	They helped the movement by providing economic support.

Who were Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, and Ida Tarbell?

a.	writers and critics who exposed injustice and corruption	c.	senators who supported the Bull Moose party
b.	leaders of the NAACP	d.	supporters of the spoils system

10.

Which of the following politicians did Thomas Nast often criticize in his cartooons?

a.	William “Boss” Tweed	c.	Samuel J. Tilden
b.	Ulysses S. Grant	d.	Teddy Roosevelt

11.

How did settlement houses, like Hull House, attempt to solve the problems of the urban poor?

a.	It provided the poor with education and medical care.	c.	It encouraged the poor to move to rural areas and buy farms.
b.	It helped organize workers into labor unions.	d.	It urged children to find work and help pay expenses.

12.

In what are were the Progressive reforms known as “initiative,” “referendum,” and “recal” designed to make improvements?

a.	increased political power of the people (greater democracy)	c.	enforcement of Jim Crow laws throughout the country
b.	economic developments in industry	d.	social improvements for the urban (city) poor

13.

What is the purpose of initiative and referendum?

a.	to suggest and pass new legislation	c.	to control the appointments made by the president
b.	to select the delegates running for political office	d.	to limit the power of labor unions

14.

What term best describes the ability of voters to select their party’s candidates, in early January both the republicans and democrats will use this process to help choose their candidate for president in 2008.

a.	direct primary	c.	initiative
b.	recall election	d.	referendum

15.

Which of the following candidates was supported by the Bull Moose Party?

a.	Theodore Roosevelt	c.	Woodrow Wilson
b.	Franklin D. Roosevelt	d.	Willaim H. Taft

16.

What name was given to the women who campaigned for the right to vote?

a.	suffragists	c.	abolitionists
b.	muckrakers	d.	Populists

17.

What was the goal of the 19th Amendment?

a.	right to vote for women	c.	ban on the manufacture and sale of alcohol
b.	direct election of senators	d.	creation of an income tax

18.

Why were women first given the right to vote in Western states?

a.	Women were recognized for their pioneering contributions.	c.	The Democratic part wanted to increase the number of Democratic voters.
b.	Many Westerners believed women voters were as politically informed as men.	d.	Increasing the number of voters would increase efficiency in government.

19.

What nickname were given to political officials, like Teddy Roosevelt and William Taft, who attempted to control and regulate big business?

a.	trustbusters	c.	captains of industry
b.	muckrakers	d.	robber barons

20.

What law was designed to prevent companies ffrom banding (joining) together to gain control of an industry (monopoly)?

a.	Sherman Antitrust Act	c.	Interstate Commerce Act
b.	Civil Service Act	d.	17th Amendment

21.

During Teddy Roosevelt’s Presidency, which law was passed to assure safety for consumers?

a.	Pure Food and Drugs Acts	c.	Interstate Commerce Act
b.	Clayton Antitrust Act	d.	Sherman Antitrust Act

22.

Which of the following was designed to regulate banks and banking?

a.	Federal Reserve System	c.	Social Security Act
b.	Interstate Commerce Act	d.	Sherman Antitrust Act

23.

What U.S. presiden was known as a leader in national forest and park conservation?

a.	Theodore Rossevelt	c.	Grover Clevelent
b.	Andrew Johnson	d.	Woodrow Wilson

24.

To promote conservation of our natural resources, President Roosevelt

a.	set aside millions of acres of land as forest preserves	c.	declared open seasons for hunting and fishing all year
b.	brough over forest rangers from Germany	d.	asked Congress to create the Civilian Conservation Corps

25.

What activist felt that African Americans should focus on practical matters of educating and employing themselves before bringing an end to segregation?

a.	Booker T. Washington	c.	George Washington Carver
b.	W.E.B. Du Bois	d.	Martin Luther King, Jr

26.

What African American activist helped establish the NAACP?

a.	W.E.B. DuBois	c.	Booker T. Washington
b.	Malcolm X	d.	George Washington Carver

27.

Unlike Booker T. Washington, what did W.E.B. DuBois insist that African Americans should do?

a.	immediately seek equlity in all areas	c.	calmly accept racial segregation
b.	gradually integrate themselves into white society	d.	learn a vocational skill before pursuing equality

28.

Who was Ida B. Wells?

a.	a journalist who crusaded against lynchings	c.	a carpetbagger
b.	a founder of settlement houses	d.	a leader of the Ku Klux Klan

Short Answer

29.

a) What organization within the United States government approved (passed) this resolution?

b) With the passage of this ammendment, what right did women receive?

30.

“The meat would be shoveled into carts, and the man who did the shoveling would not trouble to lift out a rat even when he saw one - there were things that went into the sausage in comparison with which a poisoned rat was a tidbit.”

“... there were some jobs that it only paid to be done once in a long time, and among these was the cleaning out of the waste barrels. Every spring they did it, and in the barrels would be dirt and rust and old nails and stale water - and cartload after cartload of it would be taken up and dumped into the hoppers with fresh meat, and sent out to the public’s breakfast.”

- Upton Sinclair, excerpt from The Jungle

a) This document was mainly concerned with what American industry?

b) Name two foriegn objects that were processed with the meats.

c) Why might a reader of that era be concerned with what this document claimed?

31.

Caption: Boss Tweed - “As long as I count the Votes, what are you going to do about it? say?”

a) Who is the man depicted in the cartoon?

b) According to the cartoon who counts the votes?

c) Explain the meaning of “in counting there is strength.”