front 1 Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens set the pattern for many other progressive reporters with his report on what? | back 1 Corruption in American big cities |
front 2 Progressives achieved a major political victory in 1913 with the successful passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, which provided for which of the following? | back 2 The direct election of senators |
front 3 Why did many female progressives focus on issues like child labor, education, and urban housing? | back 3 They saw these issues as extensions of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers. |
front 4 What essential theory was Theodore Roosevelt's Square deal based on? | back 4 The federal government should represent the public interest in the growing conflict between big business and labor. |
front 5 Which industry did the 1903 Elkins Act target? | back 5 The railroad industry |
front 6 What spurred the Meat Inspection Act of 1906? | back 6 The publication of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle |
front 7 Why didn't President Roosevelt run for reelection in 1908? | back 7 He felt bound by his 1904 campaign pledge that he would serve only one more term. |
front 8 What was the United States' first serious step toward conservation? | back 8 The Forest Reserve Act |
front 9 What divided conservationists in the early twentieth century? | back 9 The Hetch Hetchy incident |
front 10 All of the following were true of President William Taft except: | back 10 His political skill was displayed during his successful battle to lower the tariff in 1909. |
front 11 All of the following were true of dollar diplomacy except: | back 11 Taft proved reluctant to use the lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad. |
front 12 Which of President Taft's initiatives infuriated former President Roosevelt? | back 12 An antitrust act against the U.S. Steel Corporation |
front 13 How did President Taft anger progressive Republicans? | back 13 By signing the Payne-Aldrich Bill |
front 14 What reform program did Theodore Roosevelt advocate for during his Bull Moose campaign? | back 14 New Nationalism |
front 15 All of the following were included in Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform except: | back 15 More government regulation of large trusts |