Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens set the pattern for many other progressive reporters with his report on what?
Corruption in American big cities
Progressives achieved a major political victory in 1913 with the successful passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided for which of the following?
The direct election of senators
Why did many female progressives focus on issues like child labor, education, and urban housing?
They saw these issues as extensions of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.
What essential theory was Theodore Roosevelt's Square deal based on?
The federal government should represent the public interest in the growing conflict between big business and labor.
Which industry did the 1903 Elkins Act target?
The railroad industry
What spurred the Meat Inspection Act of 1906?
The publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
Why didn't President Roosevelt run for reelection in 1908?
He felt bound by his 1904 campaign pledge that he would serve only one more term.
What was the United States' first serious step toward conservation?
The Forest Reserve Act
What divided conservationists in the early twentieth century?
The Hetch Hetchy incident
All of the following were true of President William Taft except:
His political skill was displayed during his successful battle to lower the tariff in 1909.
All of the following were true of dollar diplomacy except:
Taft proved reluctant to use the lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad.
Which of President Taft's initiatives infuriated former President Roosevelt?
An antitrust act against the U.S. Steel Corporation
How did President Taft anger progressive Republicans?
By signing the Payne-Aldrich Bill
What reform program did Theodore Roosevelt advocate for during his Bull Moose campaign?
New Nationalism
All of the following were included in Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform except:
More government regulation of large trusts