Ch. 18 The Progressive Era Pt. 2

Question 1

True or False: By 1900, more than half of the states allowed women to vote on school issues, and four Western states allowed women full suffrage.

Answer 1

ture

Question 2

True or False: After 1900, the campaign for woman suffrage became a mass movement; membership in the American Woman Suffrage Association was more than 2 million by 1917.

Answer 2

true

Question 3

True or False: The politics of Progressivism was almost solely a North American phenomenon.

Answer 3

false

Question 4

Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the _____ _____ and _____ Act (1906) by which the federal government became the agent policing the labeling and quality of food and drugs.

Answer 4

Pure Food

Drug

Question 5

The ________, _________, and ______ were all early twentieth-century means by which democracy was expanded.

Answer 5

initiative
referendum
recall

Question 6

True or False: In the Progressive Era, industry was on the rise and agriculture was in decline.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

During the Progressive era, the ________ ______ __ __________ was transformed by irrigation and became a major area of commercial farming.

Answer 7

Imperial Valley of California

Question 8

During the Progressive era, the Imperial Valley of California was transformed by ________ and became a major area of __________ ________.

Answer 8

irrigation

commercial farming

Question 9

True or False: The Underwood Tariff imposed a graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans.

Answer 9

True

Question 10

True or False: By 1900, more than 80,000 women in the United States had earned college degrees.

Answer 10

True

Question 11

True or False: President Theodore Roosevelt distinguished between “good” and “bad” corporations, and in the Northern Securities Company case made his mark as a trust buster.

Answer 11

True

Question 12

True or False: By 1913, twenty-two states had enacted workmen’s compensation laws.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

True or False: One current of Progressive-era political thought promoted the view that experts—college professors and others able to apply scientific methods to modern social problems—ought to direct government policy

Answer 13

True

Question 14

True or False: The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.

Answer 14

True

Question 15

True or False: Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century.

Answer 15

True

Question 16

True or False: The 1911, Triangle Fire was a fire in a triangular region of Massachusetts between the towns of Worcester, Boston, and Salem.

Answer 16

False

Question 17

“______ _________” includes governmental action taken to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life.

Answer 17

Social legislation

Question 18

“Social legislation” includes governmental action taken to address ______ ________ and the __________ of working-class life.

Answer 18

urban problems

insecurities

Question 19

True or False: Mabel Dodge’s New York living room was the location of a famed “salon” in which bohemian intellectuals and intelligentsia gathered to discuss issues of sexual liberation, modern trends in art, and labor unrest.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

True or False: In the early twentieth century, New York City was a center of finance, publishing, and entertainment, but there was almost no manufacturing going on in the city.

Answer 20

False

Question 21

Who was the youngest president in American history?

Answer 21

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 22

True or False: An example of President Roosevelt’s activism was his handling of the anthracite coal strike of 1902, in which he threatened a federal takeover of the mines

Answer 22

True

Question 23

True or False: As president, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to break up every business trust he could find.

Answer 23

False

Question 24

True or False: Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi to allow women the right to vote in presidential elections

Answer 24

False

Question 25

True or False: By 1910, almost 60 percent of workers in leading manufacturing and mining industries were foreign-born.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False: Historians call the period of American history from the closing years of the nineteenth century into the second decade of the twentieth century the Progressive era.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

True or False: After 1910, mothers' pensions—aid given to mothers of young children who lacked male support—were established by many states; though, to be sure, the amounts of the monthly checks given to such mothers was small and often inadequate.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

______ _______ was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912 she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau.

Answer 28

Julia Lathrop

Question 29

Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912 she took up leadership of the _________ _______.

Answer 29

Children's Bureau

Question 30

By the 1910s, women worked not only as domestic servants, but also as ______ ________, _________ _________, and _______ _______.

Answer 30

office workers telephone operators store clerks

Question 31

True or False: At times Progressives sought to expand popular democracy, and at times they sought to restrict it.

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False: During the Progressive Era, city managers and nonpartisan commissions ran many municipalities.

Answer 32

True

Question 33

One of the main principles of Frederick W. Taylor's "________ __________" was the submission of workers to the dictates of their supervisors.

Answer 33

scientific management

Question 34

True or False: Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs

Answer 34

False

Question 35

True or False: Feminists who supported mothers' pensions believed these pensions would empower single women.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False: Gifford Pinchot held that logging, mining, and grazing on public lands should be eliminated.

Answer 36

False

Question 37

A significant step in the expansion of federal power over the economy was taken in 1906 with passage of the ________ _____, which allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set railroad rates.

Answer 37

Hepburn Act

Question 38

A significant step in the expansion of federal power over the economy was taken in 1906 with passage of the Hepburn Act, which allowed the ________ ________ ___________ (____) to set railroad rates.

Answer 38

Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)

Question 39

The Federal _________ ________ (1913), and the Federal ______ ___________ (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive Era.

Answer 39

Reserve System | Trade Commission

Question 40

True or False: The Progressive era was a time of economic expansion that produced millions of new jobs and brought unprecedented material wealth to millions of Americans.

Answer 40

True