CHAPTER 21



1. Although the progressives often differed about what progressivism meant, most agreed that

2. The progressive approach to reform was influenced by

3. The traditional view of progressivism described it as a movement by the “people” to curb the power of the

4. The group of crusading journalists of the late 1800s and early 1900s who attacked corruption in business and government were called

5. Gabriel Kolko argued in his 1963 book that progressivism was an attempt by

6. The favorite targets of the muckrakers included all of the following except

7. According to historians writing in the 1970s and 1980s, the progressive movement resulted in

8. In the late 1800s, a group of Christian reformers started a movement that acquired the name of the Social Gospel. One organization that originated as a result of this movement was the

9. One of the most important members of the Social Gospel movement of the late 1800s was

10. Father John Ryan focused on

11. Hull House, a settlement house designed to aid immigrants, was started by

12. The new middle class of the early 1900s placed a high value on

13. As a result of the increasing demands for reform in medicine by the progressives, the medical profession

14. The growing demand for reform by the progressives in the newly developing professions was the result of their attempts to

15. As a result of their attempts to regulate the medical profession, doctors such as William H. Welch

revolutionized the teaching of medicine by

16. The so-alled “women’s professions” of the progressive era included all of the following except

17. To be more actively involved in the progressive effort to remake American society, the great majority of American women

18. All of the following were women’s organizations of the progressive era except

19. Most progressive reformers advocated suffrage for women because they thought it would

20. The most radical and militant women’s suffrage leader who advocated both the vote for women and the Equal Rights Amendment was

21. Most progressives agreed that the only societal institution that could provide the regulation and control necessary to modern society was the

22. The progressives attempted to challenge the dominance of the two major political parties through all of the following methods except

23. Most urban working people opposed the actions of the progressives against the party machines because

24. The progressive belief that government must remain untainted by the corrupting influence of politics led to the creation of the form of municipal government known as

25. Progressives introduced reforms that attempted to make government more responsive to the people. Those reforms included all of the following except

26. The progressive measure that gave voters the right to remove a public official from office through special election was

27. Progressives came to regard one state as the center of reform and its governor as the leading progressive. The most progressive state and governor were

28. During the progressive era, New York’s Tammany Hall was an example of

29. The death toll in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was much higher than it should have been because

30. Western progressives wanted the federal government to help their states because

31. The black leader who became the chief spokesman for the new civil rights movement and who helped to found the Niagara movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was

32. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People approach to obtaining civil rights for black Americans included

33. Although many progressives felt that the elimination of alcohol from American life was a necessary step in remaking American society, the primary group in society who pushed for prohibition was

34. In the progressive push to adopt the Eighteenth Amendment in 1917, only Connecticut and Rhode Island refused to ratify it because

35. In adopting the Eighteenth Amendment, progressives felt the federal government had taken a step toward the elimination of

36. Which statement would most likely have been said by a nativist?

37. Progressives used all of the following reasons to justify immigration restriction except

38. The Dillingham Report concluded that

39. In the early 1900s, the man who became famous as the leader of the Socialist party and who was its perennial presidential candidate was

40. In the early 1900s, supporters of socialism argued that the main problem of American society was not the abuse of the economic system by big business but the

41. The Wobblies were a group of

42. Louis D. Brandeis, who was a brilliant lawyer, Supreme Court justice, and author, was associated with the economic viewpoint that

43. Herbert Croly, whose 1909 book The Promise of American Life was one of the most influential progressive documents, expressed a “nationalist” position on the American economy. This nationalist policy called for

44. The president who became the most powerful symbol of the reform impulse at the national level was

45. All progressives were in agreement that

1. The Progressive movement switched emphasis from the state to the federal level because

2. The one branch of the U.S. government capable of providing leadership to the national reform movement of the early 1900s was the

3. President Teddy Roosevelt’s philosophy is best described as

4. President Roosevelt saw his reforms as a way to

5. President Teddy Roosevelt believed that corruption in big business could be controlled by

6. At heart Teddy Roosevelt was a

7. President Teddy Roosevelt’s economic program was hampered in his first term by

8. In the election of 1904, President Teddy Roosevelt won an overwhelming victory for all of the following reasons except

9. In the election of 1904, Teddy Roosevelt ran against

10. President Teddy Roosevelt’s 1904 reform program was called the

11. One reform that was passed during Teddy Roosevelt’s second term was

12 . Support for the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was generated by Upton Sinclair’s novel,

13. In 1907, President Teddy Roosevelt proposed all of the following measures except

14. The reaction by Congress to President Teddy Roosevelt’s reform programs revealed

15. President Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation policy showed his desire to

16. President Teddy Roosevelt’s conservation policies were influenced by

17. The Panic of 1907 showed

18. For the election of 1908, William Howard Taft enjoyed the support of all of the following except

19. Taft differed from Teddy Roosevelt in all of the following ways except

20. The main result of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff of 1909 was to

21. During his first year in office, President Taft showed himself to be

22. President Taft fired Gifford Pinchot for

23. In 1910, Teddy Roosevelt reacted to Taft’s actions as president by\

24. In 1912, Teddy Roosevelt reacted to President Taft’s actions by

25. The New Nationalism referred to the

26. In Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism speech, he called for all of the following reforms except

27. The congressional elections of 1910 showed that the people

28. Teddy Roosevelt opposed Taft’s handling of the antitrust suit against U.S. Steel because

29. In the election of 1912, Teddy Roosevelt

30. To progressives, the Republican party convention of 1912 symbolized the

31. As a politician, Woodrow Wilson possessed all of the following characteristics except

32. Woodrow Wilson’s program was called the

33. Woodrow Wilson and Teddy Roosevelt differed fundamentally on the issue of

34. Wilson won the election of 1912 because

35. President Wilson wielded his power in all of the following ways except

36. In its first two years, the Wilson administration persuaded Congress to pass legislation that took all of the following actions except

37. Woodrow Wilson’s most important piece of domestic legislation was the

38. The Federal Reserve System represented

39. The Federal Trade Commission Act allowed business regulation through all of the following means except

40. After backing away from further reforms in late 1914, Wilson began pushing reforms again because

41. President Teddy Roosevelt’s foreign policy was dominated by his belief that

42. In 1905, Teddy Roosevelt intervened to force a peace in a war between

43. The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine stated that

44. The United States originally planned for its inter-ocean canal to go through the country of

45. President Teddy Roosevelt secured the Canal Zone in Panama by

46. The term “Dollar Diplomacy” refers to the

47. President Wilson used “morality” to justify intervention in all of the following nations except

48. During the period 1900–1915, the United States offered support to the Mexican leader

49. The work of George Marsh led Americans to fear that deforestation would cause all of the following

environmental disasters except

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