807 Quiz 1- Changing Frontiers

Question 1

Who worked to make factories safer and more efficient?

Answer 1

Frank Gilbreth

Question 2

Who developed early automobiles

Answer 2

Henry Ford, Duryea Brothers, Random Olds

Question 3

Who assassinated President McKinley?

Answer 3

Leon Czolgosz

Question 4

Taft won election because of whose help?

Answer 4

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 5

Who was the democratic Presidential candidate who won the election because of Republican Party division?

Answer 5

Woodrow Wilson

Question 6

The Eighteenth Amendment made producing, selling, and transporting what, illegal?

Answer 6

Alcohol

Question 7

What did reform groups focus on after 1900?

Answer 7

Corruption in business and government

Question 8

What allows voters to choose who runs for public office?

Answer 8

direct primary election

Question 9

What was the Progressive Party nicknamed in 1912?

Answer 9

The Bull Moose Party

Question 10

Which two presidents were agreed in their progressive ideals, but disagreed in how they handled Trusts?

Answer 10

Wilson and Roosevelt

Question 11

What requires the legislature to allow voters to approve or reject new laws?

Answer 11

A referendum

Question 12

What act required manufacturers to list the ingredients in their products?

Answer 12

The Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 13

What makes it possible for voters to petition for corrupt politicians to be removed from office?

Answer 13

Recall

Question 14

What three areas were reformed by Roosevelt’s Square Deal?

Answer 14

1) regulation of railroads 2) food and drug laws 3) conserving natural resources

Question 15

Who wrote a book describing the conditions of the Chicago meat-packing industry?

Answer 15

Upton Sinclair

Question 16

How did Progressives prefer cities be run?

Answer 16

With a commission instead of a by a mayor

Question 17

What gave voters the right to elect United States senators?

Answer 17

Seventeenth Amendment

Question 18

Who was the president who had previously served as governor of New York and Vice President?

Answer 18

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 19

Who developed a successful manned, powered aircraft?

Answer 19

The Wright Brothers

Question 20

Journalists who worked to make people aware of inequality and dishonesty in America were called what?

Answer 20

Muckrakers

Question 21

What made it possible for voters to offer new laws to be voted upon?

Answer 21

initiative

Question 22

An impartial commission listens to both sides and proposes a solution in a process called what?

Answer 22

Arbitration

Question 23

Who achieved fame as leader of the Rough Riders?

Answer 23

Theodore Roosevelt