CHAPTER 28



CHAPTER 28

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901–1912

D. Matching People, Places, and Events

Match the person, place, or event in the left column with the proper description in the right column by inserting the correct letter on the blank line.

|1. ___ Thorstein Veblen |a. Politically inept inheritor of the Roosevelt legacy who ended up |

|2. ___ Lincoln Steffens |allied with the reactionary Republican Old Guard |

|3. ___ Ida Tarbell |b. Powerful progressive women’s organization that sought to “make the|

|4. ___ Seventeenth Amendment |world homelike” by outlawing the saloon and the product it sold |

|5. ___ Robert M. La Follette |c. Case that upheld protective legislation on the grounds of women’s |

|6. ___ Hiram Johnson |supposed physical weakness |

|7. ___ Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire |d. New York City disaster that underscored urban workers’ need for |

|8. ___ Women’s Christian Temperance Union |government protection |

|9. ___ Anthracite coal strike |e. The most influential of the state-level progressive governors and |

|10. ___ Jane Addams |a presidential aspirant in 1912 |

|11. ___ Upton Sinclair |f. Leading female progressive reformer whose advocacy of pacifism as |

|12. ___ Muller v. Oregon |well as social welfare set her at odds with more muscular and |

|13. ___ William Howard Taft |militant progressives |

|14. ___ Lochner v. New York |g. Eccentric economist who criticized the wealthy for conspicuous |

|15. ___ Gifford Pinchot |consumption and failure to serve real human needs |

| |h. Leading muckraking journalist whose articles documented the |

| |Standard Oil Company’s abuse of power |

| |i. Progressive governor of California who broke the stranglehold of |

| |the Southern Pacific Railroad on the state’s politics |

| |j. Pro-conservation federal official whose dismissal by Taft angered |

| |Roosevelt progressives |

| |k. Dangerous labor conflict resolved by Rooseveltian negotiation and |

| |threats against business people |

| |l. Early muckraker who exposed the political corruption in many |

| |American cities |

| |m. Progressive novelist who sought to aid industrial workers, but |

| |found his book, The Jungle, instead inspiring middle-class consumer |

| |protection. |

| |n. Progressive measure that required U.S. senators to be elected |

| |directly by the people rather than by state legislatures |

| |o. Supreme court ruling that overturned a progressive law mandating a|

| |ten-hour workday |

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