What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?...
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involvement in political action
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The progressives that influenced the United States during the years between 1890 and 1916 were...
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reformers with a broad agenda of concerns.
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How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?...
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it began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.
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Progressives launched the social purity movement to...
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attack prostitution and other vices.
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The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stigmatized...
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the Irish, Italians, and Germans
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What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?
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A strike by women garment workers in New York City who were protesting low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union.
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the 1909 strike at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Company demonstrated that...
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women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines.
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Lawyers used a mass of sociological evidence in the 1908 Muller v. Oregon case to demonstrate...
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the ill effects of working long hours on the health and safety of women.
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What idea formed the core of the reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era American?..
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The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.
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One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to...
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reduce Cleveland's streetcar systems fare from five cents to three cents to promote working-class ridership.
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How did Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette unite his supporters during the first years of the twentieth century?...
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La Follette emphasized reform over party loyalty.
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In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson...
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supported conservation, the initiative, referendum, and recall.
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According to Theodore Roosevelt, the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901 was whether...
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the government had the power to control the trusts.
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The Hepburn Act (1906) marked the first time that...
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a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and set prices.
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The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for...
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writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing.
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What did J.P. Morgan receive in return for his actions in the panic of 1907?..
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The tactic approval of President Roosevelt for U.S. Steel's acquisition of Tennessee Coal and Iron.
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How did President Theodore Roosevelt impact land and conservation during his administration?...
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He more than quadrupled the acreage of government reserves.
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Which of the following statements describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century?...
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Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use.
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What was President Roosevelt's primary reason for supporting a canal that would connect the Caribbean and the Pacific?...
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National defense.
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President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for his role in...
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the Russo-Japanese War.
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Which of the following describes President Taft's dollar diplomacy in the Caribbean?
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Dollar diplomacy set commercial rather than strategic goals.
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What factor explained Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election?
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Theodore Roosevelt entered the race as a third party candidate and split the Republic vote.
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Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?
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It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets.
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Which of the following statement describes the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?
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It was the most significant piece of domestic legislation in Wilson's presidency.
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Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor's demand for an end to...
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opposed affording special privileges to any group.
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Margaret Sanger promoted birth control in the 1910s because she...
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believed it would usefully alter social and political power relationships.
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What was the response to Margaret Sanger's first efforts to launch a movement for birth control in 1915?..
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She was faced with the prospect of arrest for distributing obscene information.
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The Progressive Era's Jim Crow laws in the South were designed to...
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legalize and expand racial segregation in public facilities.
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What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B Du Bois during the progressive period?..
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Washington focused on education and economic progress, while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership.
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The efforts of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in
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Woman suffrage
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Teddy Roosevelt's term for what he had hoped to be the outcome of the miner strike
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The square deal
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Teddy Roosevelt corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
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Set up the US as the police power in the Western Hemisphere
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To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction
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Backed An uprising Panama arranged by New York investors
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