CHAPTER 18
The Progressive Era, 1900-1916
Quiz Result
1. Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as
Topic: Urban Age, Consumer Society, Muckrakers
a. Muckrakers.
b. Bushwhackers.
c. Ditch-diggers.
d. Stand-patters.
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2. Progressive-era feminists were
Topic: New Feminism, Rise of Personal Freedom
a. fewer in number than during the Gilded Age.
b. engaged in a wide range of social causes.
c. more interested in Freudian psychology than in the right to vote.
d. all of the above.
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3. Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
Topic: Teddy Roosevelt, Expanding Role of Government, New Freedom and New Nationalism
a. Pure Food and Drug Act; publication of The Jungle; assassination of President McKinley; election of Woodrow Wilson
b. Northern Securities case; Pinchot-Ballinger controversy; reelection of Roosevelt; Hepburn Act
c. creation of Federal Reserve System; election of William Howard Taft; Triangle Shirtwaist Fire; Lawrence textile strike
d. assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act
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4. The 1909 "uprising of the 20,000" was
Topic: Intro
a. an organized effort on the part of manufacturers to secure property rights in the face of Populist opposition.
b. an interracial rebellion of sharecroppers in Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
c. a walkout of garment workers, which led to a victory for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
d. a mass meeting of farmworkers in Wichita, Kansas, at which they sought to advance the subtreasury plan.
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5. The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the
Topic: Intro
a. Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
b. International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
c. National Consumers' League.
d. Women's Trade Union League.
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6. The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes
Topic: Intro
a. a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
b. a type of life insurance, and auto insurance then available.
c. a self-help movement in which one was to take pro-active measures in seeking to overcome one's aggressive tendencies.
d. a movement that sought to recapture America's lost glory through an active policy of global imperialism.
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7. The Progressive Era was a time of
Topic: An Urban Age, Consumer Society, Farms and Cities
a. desultory economic performance in the economy, and decreasing wages.
b. economic recession.
c. explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, and increased industrial production, and "Golden Age" for American agriculture.
d. economic downturn for agriculture in America, and uneven growth in the industrial economy.
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8. All of the following were muckrakers, except
Topic: Muckrakers
a. Lincoln Steffens.
b. Ida Tarbell.
c. Upton Sinclair.
d. Theodore Roosevelt.
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9. Between 1901 and 1914,
Topic: Immigration as a Global Process
a. 13 million immigrants came to the United States.
b. there was a net outflow of population from the United States to other countries.
c. 17 million Asian immigrants arrived on America's shores.
d. 3 million immigrants came to the United States.
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10. In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view, as she wrote in her influential book Women and Economics (1898),
Topic: Working Women
a. American women were freer, wealthier, and healthier than ever before in human history and should celebrate these newfound achievements.
b. the new industrial economy afforded women more opportunities and freedoms than ever before, even if economic growth was uneven across the country.
c. prevailing gender norms condemned women to a life of domestic drudgery; women were oppressed, and a housewife was an unproductive parasite.
d. socialism, not capitalism, was the way forward.
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11. The Progressive Era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called
Topic: Rise of Fordism
a. Progressive-era plenty.
b. Fordism.
c. the Affluent Society.
d. the American Way.
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12. Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except
Topic: An American Standard of Living
a. a decent standard of living for working people.
b. an endorsement of the rights of working people to organize unions.
c. repudiating competitive individualism in favor of a more cooperative vision of the good society.
d. the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.
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13. What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, and Asian-Americans, as well as white men?
Topic: AFL and IWW
a. Industrial Workers of the World
b. the National Civic Federation
c. the American Chambers of Commerce
d. the Federated Employers International
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14. The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was
Topic: New Immigration on Strike
a. a precursor to the Sioux Indian attack against General George Armstrong Custer.
b. an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.
c. a premeditated attack against Native Americans in South Dakota by the federal militia.
d. a massacre of frontier settlers by Sioux, Cheyenne, Algonquin, and Narragansett Indians.
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15. In 1907, at a time when segregation had become much the norm throughout the South, in which city did a strike of 10,000 black and white dockworkers take place, as a remarkable expression of interracial solidarity?
Topic: New Immigration on Strike
a. Charleston, South Carolina
b. Wilmington, North Carolina
c. New Orleans, Louisiana
d. Newport News, Virginia
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16. A principal organization in the early twentieth century that battled for civil liberties and the right of individual freedom of speech was
Topic: Labor and Civil Liberties
a. the American Chambers of Commerce.
b. the Industrial Workers of the World.
c. the National Civic Federation.
d. the Ladies' Christian Temperance Union.
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17. What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized greater economic opportunities, the vote, and open discussions of sexuality?
Topic: New Feminism
a. the Feminist Alliance
b. the Lyrical Left
c. the Woman's Christian Temperance Organization
d. Heterodoxy
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18. In Progressive-Era America, what particular locale became known as a center of sexual experimentation, attracting women interested in free sexual expression and, with its aura of tolerance, attracted many homosexuals?
Topic: New Feminism
a. Greenwich Village in New York City
b. Hoboken, New Jersey
c. The Bronx, New York
d. Westerville, Ohio
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19. Who was the woman best known during the second decade of the twentieth century for promoting birth control?
Topic: Birth Control Movement
a. Margaret Sanger
b. Florence Kelley
c. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch
d. Frances Perkins
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20. Who was the Progressive-Era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?
Topic: State and Local Reforms
a. Hazen Pingree
b. Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
c. Mary "raise less corn and more hell" Lease
d. "Big" Bill Haywood
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21. Who was the early twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin, who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?
Topic: State and Local Reforms
a. Robert M. LaFollette
b. Hazen Pingree
c. Randolph Bourne
d. Samuel Jones
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22. The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is
Topic: Progressive Democracy
a. the Fifteenth Amendment.
b. the Sixteenth Amendment.
c. the Seventeenth Amendment.
d. the Eighteenth Amendment.
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