Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912
because
[A] Senator Robert La Follette encouraged him to do
so.
[B] William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's
policies.
[C] the Democratic party was split.
[D] Taft
decided not to run for a second term.
[E] he was drafted by the
Republican party
B
According to progressives, the cure for American democracy's ills
was
[A] socialism.
[B] a more conservative
government.
[C] a third political party.
[D] more
democracy.
[E] technical and scientific expertise
D
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] A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2
[B] A-3, B-4, C-2,
D-1
[C] A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4
[D] A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3
[E]
A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
B
All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives
except
A) the direct election of senators.
B)
prohibition.
C) women's suffrage.
D) ending prostitution and
"white slavery."
E) abolishing special workplace
protections for women.
E
The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor
was
A) the National Consumers League.
B) Hull House.
C)
the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
D) the Progressive
Party.
E) the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
E
President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt
a policy of __________ trusts.
[A] regulating
[B]
ignoring
[C] collusion with
[D] dissolving
[E] monitoring
A
The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led
many states to pass
A) mandatory fire escape plans for all
businesses employing more than ten people.
B) safety regulations
and workmen's compensation laws for job injuries.
C) restrictions
on female employment in the clothing industry.
D) zoning
regulations governing where factories could be located.
E) laws
guaranteeing unions the right to raise safety concerns.
B
Female progressives often justified their reformist political
activities on the basis of
A) the need to assert female power
against male oppression.
B) America's need to catch up with more
progressive European nations.
C) women's inherent rights to life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
D) the harsh treatment of
working women by employers.
E) their being essentially an
extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.
E
President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
[A] the Open Door
policy.
[B] sphere-of-influence diplomacy.
[C] big-stick
diplomacy.
[D] dollar diplomacy.
[E] the Good Neighbor policy.
D
Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the only
one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the
[A] Cary
Act.
[B] Desert Land Act.
[C] Forest Reserve Act.
[D]
Clean Water Act.
[E] Newlands Act
E
Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame
of the Cities,"
[A] attacked the United States
Senate.
[B] unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business
and municipal government.
[C] uncovered official collusion in
prostitution and "white slavery."
[D] laid bare the
practices of the stock market.
[E] exposed the deplorable
condition of blacks in urban areas.
B
While president, Theodore Roosevelt
[A] greatly increased the
power and prestige of the presidency.
[B] showed no skill and
little interest in working with Congress.
[C] held rigidly to
ideological principles.
[D] was surprisingly unpopular with the
public.
[E] was a poor judge of public opinion.
A
As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the
followingexcept
[A] control of labor.
[B] consumer
protection.
[C] an end to railroad rebates.
[D] control of
corporations.
[E] conservation of natural resources.
A
While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform
proposals as the
[A] Big Stick.
[B] Square Deal.
[C]
Fair Deal.
[D] New Deal.
[E] Big Deal.
B
One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal
strike in 1902 was that
[A] the national government did not
automatically side with the owners in the dispute.
[B] the owners
quickly agreed to negotiate with labor representatives in order to
settle their differences peacefully.
[C] for a time the mines
were seized by the national government and operated by
federaltroops
[D] it generated widespread middle-class
support.
[E] the coal miners' union was officially recognized as
the legal bargaining agent of the
miners.
A
As president, William Howard Taft
[A] was wedded more to the
status quo than to change.
[B] held together the diverse wings of
the Republican party.
[C] adopted a confrontational attitude
toward Congress.
[D] was a good judge of public opinion.
[E]
carried on the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt
A
Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was facilitated by the
publication of
[A] Jack London's Call of the Wild.
[B] Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle.
[C] Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth Against
Commonwealth.
[D] Theodore Dreiser's The Titan.
[E] Jacob
Riis's How the Other Half Lives.
B
Political progressivism
[A] began in Northeastern big
cities.
[B] made little difference in American life.
[C]
emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of
government.
[D] died out shortly after Teddy Roosevelt stepped
down as president.
[E] was more a minority movement than a
majority mood.
C
The Populist Party is mostly politically rooted in
a)
federalists
b) greenback labor party and the populists
c)
the german social democratic party
d) the pre civil war
antislavery movement
e) social darwinists
B
The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers
of femaleprogressive activity because they
[A] broke down the
idea that women had special concerns as wives and mothers.
[B]
introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social
problems and civic concerns.
[C] helped slum children learn to
read Dante and Shakespeare.
[D] became the launching pads for
women seeking political office.
[E] provided literary and
philosophical perspectives on social questions.
B
Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the
[A]
middle class.
[B] upper class.
[C] small towns.
[D]
lower class
[E] new wave of immigrants.
A
In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted
by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that
[A]
female workers required special rules and protection on the
job
[B] factory labor should be limited to ten hours a day five
days a week.
[C] female workers should receive equal pay for
equal work.
[D] the federal government should regulate
occupational safety and health.
[E] child labor under the age of
fourteen should be prohibited.
A
Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate
that the progressives' highest priority was
[A] economic
equality.
[B] democratic participation.
[C] governmental
efficiency.
[D] urban planning.
[E] free enterprise.
C
Progressivism
[A] supported many reforms advocated by
feminists
[B] reflected the views of working-class
women.
[C] offered little to the ever-growing women's
movement.
[D] followed examples set by women's reform movements
in Europe.
[E] supported only the demand for woman suffrage.
A
Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in
1904 when he
[A] announced that he would not be a candidate for a
third term as president.
[B] got into a quarrel with his popular
secretary of war, William Taft.
[C] supported the Federal Reserve
Act.
[D] began to reduce his trust-busting activity.
[E]
refused to do anything in response to the "Roosevelt Panic."
A
Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of
his or her exposé.
___ A. David G. Phillips
___ B. Ida
Tarbell
___ C. Lincoln Steffens
___ D. Ray Stannard
Baker
1. the United States Senate
2. the Standard Oil
Company
3. city governments
4. the condition of
blacks
[A] A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
[B] A-1, B-2, C-3,
D-4
[C] A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3
[D] A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
[E]
A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
B
The Supreme Court's "rule of reason" in restraint-of-trade
cases was handed down in a case involving
[A] Standard
Oil.
[B] General Electric.
[C] Northern Securities.
[D]
Armour Meat-Packing.
[E] United States Steel.
A
To regain the power that the people had lost to the
"interests," progressives advocatedall of the following
except
[A] referendum.
[B] recall.
[C]
initiative.
[D] direct election of U.S. senators.
[E] socialism.
E
The progressive movement was instrumental in getting both the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth amendments added to the Constitution. The
Seventeenth called for__________, and the Eighteenth called
for__________.
[A] income taxes, direct election of
senators
[B] woman suffrage, income taxes
[C] woman
suffrage, direct election of senators
[D] prohibition, woman
suffrage
[E] direct election of senators, prohibition
E
The idea of "multiple-use resource management" included all
of the following practices except
[A] recreation.
[B]
sustained-yield logging.
[C] watershed protection.
[D]
damming of rivers.
[E] summer stock grazing
D
Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal
mines by
[A] threatening to seize the mines and to operate them
with federal troops.
[B] using the military to force the miners
back to work.
[C] appealing to mine owners' and workers' sense of
the public interest.
[D] passing legislation making the miners'
union illegal.
[E] helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers
A
The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of
[A]
conservation of natural resources.
[B] the purity of food and
drugs.
[C] regulation of municipal utilities.
[D] women's
working conditions.
[E] railroad regulation
E
Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the
progressive attack on socialills was to
[A] make the public aware
of social problems.
[B] formulate a consistent philosophy of
social reform.
[C] explain the causes of social ills.
[D]
link up with movements for social justice.
[E] devise solutions
to society's problems.
A
According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring, tangible
achievement may havebeen
[A] mediating an end to the
Russo-Japanese War.
[B] his efforts at consumer
protection.
[C] his efforts supporting the environment.
[D]
the Panama Canal.
C
The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government
[A]
brought democracy to urban dwellers.
[B] was designed to remove
politics from municipal administration.
[C] made giant strides
under the leadership of Hiram Johnson.
[D] was developed in
Wisconsin.
[E] opened urban politics to new immigrants.
B
The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for
progressives and laboradvocates because the Supreme Court in its
ruling
[A] declared unconstitutional a law providing special
protection for women workers.
[B] ruled that fire and safety
regulations were local and not state or federal concerns.
[C]
declared that prohibiting child labor would require a constitutional
amendment.
[D] declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day
unconstitutional.
[E] upheld the constitutionality of a law
enabling business to fire labor organizers.
D
During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt did all of the following
except
a) expand presidential power
b) shape the progressive
movement
c) aid the cause of the environment
d) provide an
international perspective
e) tame capitalism
E
The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive
reform movement because they
a) counted on drastic political
change to fight social wrongs
b) thrived on publicity rather than
social change
c) believed that the cure for the ills of American
democracy lay in less democracy and more government control
d)
sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic
controls
e) refused to look beyond middle-class concerns
D
When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus
attention on the
[A] unsanitary conditions that existed in the
meat-packing industry.
[B] deplorable conditions in the drug
industry.
[C] plight of workers in the stockyards and
meat-packing industry.
[D] unhealthy effects of beef
consumption.
[E] corruption in the United States Senate.
C
Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in
the progressive movement?
a) ending special regulations governing
women in the workplace
b) preventing child labor in factories and
sweatshops
c) insuring that food products were healthy and
safe
d) attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum
tenements
e) creating pensions for mothers with dependent children
A
The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was
to
[A] inspire confidence in small business owners.
[B] halt
the trend toward combination and integration in business.
[C]
establish himself as a bigger "trustbuster" than William
Howard Taft.
[D] prove that the government, not private business,
ruled the country.
[E] fragment big business.
D
As one progressive explained, the 'real heart' of the progressive
movement was to
a) preserve world peace
b) use the
government as an agency of human welfare
c) ensure the
Jeffersonian style of government
d) reinstate the policy of
laissez faire
e) to promote economic and social equality
B
Progressives who were among the strongest critics of injustice in
early-twentieth-century America, received much of their inspiration
from
a) the Federalists
b) the Greenback Labor party and the
Populists
c) foreign nations
d) progressive theorists, like
Jacob Riis
e) social Darwinists
B
President Theodore Roosevelt branded reporters who tried to uncover
injustice as 'muckrakers' because
a) he saw them as trying to
clean up society
b) they brought ugly problems to public
attention
c) of their work in the 'muck' of the slums
d) of
their coverage of the meat-packing industry
e) he was annoyed by
their excessive zeal
E
The two key goals pursued by progressives were to curb the threats
posed by ________________ on the one hand and __________________ on
the other.
a) New immigrants; blacks
b) feminists;
patriarchal males
c) the social gospel; the gospel of
wealth
d) the Old Guard; muckrakers
e) trusts; socialists
E
Theodore Roosevelt believed that trusts
a) could be destroyed
without damage to the American economy
b) were greedy for power
and wealth
c) were too powerful to be regulated
d) were here
to stay with their efficient means of production
e) should be
balanced by strong labor unions
D