Chapter 18 Pt. 1

Question 0

What was the goal of the city manager form of government?

Answer 0

The city council hired a qualified city manager who served as the administrator of the city governments

Question 1

What measures further directed democracy?

Answer 1

Referendum, Recall, Direct Primaries, and Secret Ballot

Question 2

What is the popular term for breaking up monopolies?

Answer 2

Trustbusting

Question 3

Why did the progressives support Prohibiton?

Answer 3

Progressives naturally concluded that eliminating liquor would reduce crime and poverty

Question 4

What term referred to progressive writers who exposed abuse and corruption?

Answer 4

Muckrakers

Question 5

What theme did Theodore Roosevelt adopt during his first campaign?

Answer 5

Square Deal

Question 6

What was the subject of “The Jungle”?

Answer 6

The filthy conditions of the Chicago’s meat planking plants

Question 7

What was most significant about the coal miners’ strike in 1902?

Answer 7

This act was the first instance in which federal government interfered in a labor dispute/businesses

Question 8

What term was applied to laws in the South that segregated the races?

Answer 8

Jim Crow Laws

Question 9

List the causes that Theodore Roosevelt crusaded for.

Answer 9

1. Progressivism
2. Muckrakers
3. Trustbusting
4. Panama Canal
5. National Parks
6. Gradual Philippine Independence

Question 10

Why were American leaders afraid to grant the Philippine inference too quickly?

Answer 10

They were afraid they might fall prey to another power such as Japan

Question 11

What phrase is most closely associated with the Roosevelt Corollary?

Answer 11

Monroe Doctrine

Question 12

Which American action was least popular in Japan?

Answer 12

Treaty of Canon

Question 13

What popular reform took place during Taft’s administration?

Answer 13

Joseph Canon

Question 14

What action resulted in a final split between Taft and Roosevelt?

Answer 14

Antitrust proceedings

Question 15

What progressive ran a platform called “ New Nationalism” in 1912?

Answer 15

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 16

Why did Congress pass it’s first income tax in 1913?

Answer 16

Income tax would provide the government with funds to initiative reforms and provide the expanded social services. The more money you made the higher the taxes

Question 17

What reform measure has been called the “ Magna Carta” of labor?

Answer 17

Clayton anti-trust act

Question 18

Who perfected the assembly line method of production?

Answer 18

Ford

Question 19

What was the most significant agricultural advance during the Progressive Era?

Answer 19

Tractor

Question 20

True or False: “Gas and water socialism” favored government ownership of nearly all business.

Answer 20

False; they supported limited government ownership

Question 21

True or False: Women’s suffrage was an issue long before the progressives began to crusade for it.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

True or False: The Pure Food and Drug Act proved to be a wasteful, ineffective form of government intervention.

Answer 22

False; they unquestionable aided the public

Question 23

True or False: by requiring literacy tests, Southern States deprived many blacks of their right to vote.

Answer 23

True

Question 24

True or False: Taft initiated more antitrust suits and set aside more public lands that Roosevelt.

Answer 24

True

Question 25

True or False: the first income tax was an unfair burden to the poor

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False: the era from 1898 to 1914 was a boom time for American agricultural.

Answer 26

True

Question 27

True or False: the progressive movement opposed the growth of the federal government.

Answer 27

False; they wanted everything to advance