Chapter 16 Progressivism Review

Question 1

Journalists who “raked up” or exposed the filth of society became known as __

Answer 1

muckrakers

Question 2

The mission of the organization known as the __ was to fight the anti-Semitism that was common in American society

Answer 2

Anti-Defamation League

Question 3

In 1893 __ helped persuade the Illinois legislature to prohibit child labor

Answer 3

Florence Kelley

Question 4

An ambitious agenda of reforms that became known as the Wisconsin idea was pushed through by Wisconsin Governor __

Answer 4

Robert LaFollete

Question 5

The __ amendment gave voters the power to elect US senators directly

Answer 5

17th

Question 6

An __ is a measure that allows voters to put a proposed law on the ballot for public approval

Answer 6

initiative

Question 7

Unlike the AFL, the __ organized unskilled workers

Answer 7

International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union

Question 8

In the late 1800s many of the problems created by industrialization were the focus of the reform movement known as __

Answer 8

progressivism

Question 9

In 1909 a multiracial group of activists, including WEB Du Bois and Ida Wells-Barnett, formed an organization known as the __ to fight for the rights of African Americans

Answer 9

NAACP

Question 10

__ exposed the corruption of city governments in his 1904 work, The Shame of the Cities

Answer 10

Lincoln Steffens

Question 11

A __ allows a recently passed law to be placed on the ballot so that voters can either approve or reject the law

Answer 11

referendum

Question 12

A __ enables voters to remove an elected official by special election

Answer 12

recall

Question 13

The Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire was a __ example of the type of tragedies that resulted in the early 1900s from a lack of workplace safety laws

Answer 13

concrete

Question 14

Through his book, How the Other Half Lives, __ revealed the grim conditions in New York tenements

Answer 14

Jacob Riis

Question 15

Led the Women’s Christian Temperance Union from 1879-1898

Answer 15

Frances Willard

Question 16

Organization of African American women who campaigned to fight poverty, segregation, and lynchings

Answer 16

National Association of Colored Women

Question 17

Gave the vote to African American men, but not to women

Answer 17

15th Amendment

Question 18

The first territory to grant women the vote

Answer 18

Wyoming Territory

Question 19

Women’s suffrage leader arrested for voting in NY

Answer 19

Susan B Anthony

Question 20

Resulted in 1890 from the merger of 2 women’s suffrage organizations

Answer 20

National American Woman Suffrage Association

Question 21

Temperance leader who became known for smashing saloons with a hatchet

Answer 21

Carry Nation

Question 22

Barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

Answer 22

18th Amendment

Question 23

National agency created to protect the well-being of children

Answer 23

Federal Children’s Bureau

Question 24

Organization that, along with the Anti-Saloon League, led the organized crusade against alcohol

Answer 24

Women’s Christian Temperance Union

Question 25

T/F:The work of the National Association of Colored Women included the formation of settlement house, hospitals, and schools that served African Americans

Answer 25

True

Question 26

T/F:Some people who argued against women’s suffrage held the notion that most American women did not want to vote

Answer 26

True

Question 27

Which term doesn’t relate to the others?a) US Forest Serviceb) conservationc) suffraged) Newlands Reclamation Act

Answer 27

c) suffrage

Question 28

Which term doesn’t relate to the others?a) Prohibitionb) Elkins Actc) Hepburn Actd) railroads

Answer 28

a) Prohibition

Question 29

What laws did Congress pass to protect consumers from abuses by the food and drug industries?

Answer 29

Meat Inspection ActPure Food and Drug Act

Question 30

What measures were enacted during the Roosevelt administration to provide irrigation for dry lands?

Answer 30

Newlands Reclamation Act

Question 31

What act strengthened the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), and what powers did the act give to the ICC?

Answer 31

Elkins Act- set price to chargeHepburn Act- look at rebated for railroads

Question 32

Theodore Roosevelt’s 1904 campaign slogan and the framework for his presidency was the __

Answer 32

Square Deal

Question 33

President Roosevelt’s attacks on monopolies and trusts came to be called ___

Answer 33

trust busting

Question 34

Which novel depicted the wretched and unsanitary conditions at a meatpacking plant?

Answer 34

The Jungle

Question 35

Who served as the first chief of the US Forest Service?

Answer 35

Gifford Pinchot

Question 36

The Interstate Commerce Commission was given authority to set maximum railroad rates by the __

Answer 36

Elkins Act

Question 37

T/F:The 19th amendment allowed Congress to levy taxes on an individual’s income

Answer 37

False16th amendment

Question 38

T/F:The Federal Reserve Act created a central fund from which banks could borrow to prevent collapse during a financial panic

Answer 38

True

Question 39

T/F:The Clayton Antitrust Act was intended to repeal the Sherman Antitrust Act

Answer 39

Falseclarify and extend it

Question 40

T/F:The 18th amendment ratified in 1920 gave women full voting rights

Answer 40

False19th amendment

Question 41

T/F:President Wilson opposed a federal lynching law because he believed that the matter should be dealt with at the state level

Answer 41

True

Question 42

Law that supported workers by legalizing strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing

Answer 42

Clayton Antitrust Act