APUSH Ch. 28 Multiple Choice

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

Use the government as an agency of human welfare

The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the

Greenback Labor party and the Populists

Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism:
A. Thorstein Veblen
B. Jack London
C. Jacob Riis
D. Henry Demarest Lloyd

1. "Bloated trusts"
2. slum conditions
3. "Conspicuous consumption"
4. Destruction of nature

A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1

Progressivism was closely tied to the

Feminist movement and women’s causes

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

their being essentially and extension of women’s traditional roles as wives and mothers

The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was

the Social Gospel

Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her expose:
A. David G. Phillips
B. Ida Tarbell
C. Lincoln Stevens
D. Ray Stannard Baker

1. The U.S. Senate
2. The Standard Oil Company
3. City governments
4. The condition of blacks

A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they

trusted in publicity to reform capitalism rather than overthrow it

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

make the public aware of social problems

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Progressive reformers included which of the following:

Militarists, Pacifists Female Settlement workers, Labor unionists

Political progressivism emerged in

both political parties, in all religions, at all levels of government

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to

make the Senate millionaire’s club directly elected by the people

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

more democracy

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

socialism

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

Ending special regulations governing women in the workplace

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

The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass

antisweatshop and workers’ compensation laws for job injuries

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

declared a law limited work to ten hours a day unconstitutional

Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives’ highest priority was

government efficiency

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

Square Deal

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

guaranteed recognition of labor unions

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops

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

The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to

end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts

Teddy Roosevelt believed that large corporate trusts

were bad only if they acted as monopolies against the public interest

The real purpose of TR’s assault on trusts was to

prove that democratic federal government, not private business, goverened the U.S.

President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ________ trusts

regulating

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

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

plight of workers in the stockyards and meat -packing industry

The Newlands ACt, passed under Theodore Roosevelt’s administration, was designed to

reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands

According to the text, TR’s most important and enduring achievement may have been

conserving American resources and portecting the environment

The multiple-use conservationists generally believed that

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

The western preservationists suffered their worst political setback when

California’s Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed to supply water to San Francisco

TR weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he

announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president

The Panic of 1807 exposed the need for substantial reform in

U.S. banking and currency policies

While president, Theodore Roosevelt enhanced

the power and prestige of the presidency

During his presidency, TR did al of the following except

substantially weaken corporate capitalism

As president, William Howard Taft

was wedded more to the status quo than to progressive change

President Taft’s foreign policy was dubbed

dollar diplomacy

The Supreme Court’s rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving

Northern Securities

TR decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because

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