Ch 19 Test

Question 0

What was the Pendleton act?

Answer 0

It was the call service commission

Question 1

Why did reformers dislike the spoils system?

Answer 1

Becuase jobs weren’t based on the merit system

Question 2

What was the interstate commerce act?

Answer 2

It was an act that forbade practices such as rebates

Question 3

What does civil service mean?

Answer 3

The civil service is a system that includes most government jobs except elected positions the judiciary and the military

Question 4

What was the role of politician bosses in the city?

Answer 4

They controlled work done and demanded payoffs from businesses

Question 5

Who was a famous New York City boss?

Answer 5

William tweed

Question 6

What was the Wisconsin idea?

Answer 6

Various progressive reforms

Question 7

Primary

Answer 7

An election in which voters rather than party leaders chose their party’s candidate

Question 8

Recall

Answer 8

A process by which people may vote to remove an elected official from office

Question 9

Initiative

Answer 9

A process that allows voters to put a bill before the state legislature

Question 10

Referendum

Answer 10

Is a way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law

Question 11

What was the 16th amendment?

Answer 11

Income tax

Question 12

Define muckraker

Answer 12

A term for a crusading journalist

Question 13

Ida Tarbell

Answer 13

Her work led to demands on trusts and she caused oil baron John d Rockefeller of unfair business practices

Question 14

Upton Sinclair

Answer 14

Revealed the bad conditions of the meat in meat packing facilities

Question 15

Jacob Riis

Answer 15

Provided shocking images of slum life

Question 16

Who was the first progressive president?

Answer 16

President William McKinley

Question 17

What is a trustbuster

Answer 17

Someone who destroys trusts or monopolies

Question 18

What legislative acts were used to break up trusts and monopolies?

Answer 18

Sherman antitrust act
Interstate commerce act
Federal trade commission
Clayton antitrust act

Question 19

What is conservation

Answer 19

Protection of natural resources

Question 20

How did Theodore Roosevelt promote conservation?

Answer 20

He urged companies to plant new trees in the forests there companies such as the U.S. Forest service to plant trees and he set up national parks

Question 21

How did Theodore Roosevelt end the United mine workers strike?

Answer 21

Roosevelt threatened to send in troops to run the mines. The mine owners sat down with the union and reached an agreement

Question 22

What was the square deal?

Answer 22

Everyone from farmers to consumers to workers and owners Should have the same opportunities to succeed

Question 23

To what party did 1912 presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt belong?

Answer 23

Republican Party

Question 24

What does the federal trade commission do?

Answer 24

Stops unfair business practices to eliminate competition

Question 25

What is suffrage?

Answer 25

The right to vote in political elections

Question 26

What state first granted women the right to vote?

Answer 26

Wyoming

Question 27

What was the 18th amendment?

Answer 27

Prohibition of alcoholic beverages

Question 28

What was the 19th amendment?

Answer 28

Women's right to vote

Question 29

For what did booker t washington work

Answer 29

Advised African Americans to learn trade skills and move up gradually in society by becoming better

Question 30

What did Ida b wells urge to stop?

Answer 30

Lynching

Question 31

What is lynching?

Answer 31

Murder by a mob

Question 32

What organization did web du bois start?

Answer 32

The natural association for the advancement of colored people

Question 33

What did members of the temperance union want to outlaw?

Answer 33

Consumption of alcohol

Question 34

For what did the anti-defamation league fight?

Answer 34

Fights prejudice against American Jews

Question 35

What was the gentlemen's agreement

Answer 35

Where the U.S. allowed some Japanese to immigrate to the U.S. But prevented everyone else Japan stopped people from emigrating to the U.S.

Question 36

What are mutualistas?

Answer 36

Mexican American mutual and group