Chapter 18 test

Question 1

Corrupt politicians accepted bribes from special interests in return for all of the following

Answer 1

1. Tax breaks
2. Business deals
3. Public jobs

Question 2

Special interests sought

Answer 2

Tax breaks or other favors from legislators

Question 3

Progressives backed election reforms such as

Answer 3

The referendum in order to weaken the power of political bosses and machines

Question 4

Progressivism

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Political movement that resulted in a more humane industrial society

Question 5

Progressive election reforms did the following

Answer 5

1. The initiative, referendum, and recall
2. Direct primary
3. Secret ballot

Question 6

Samuel Jones

Answer 6

Toledo mayor who’s many reforms included the establishment of kindergartens

Question 7

To include government efficiency, many American cities

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1. Elected reform mayors
2. Formed city commissions
3. Hired city managers

Question 8

Reform mayors, city commissions, and city managers promoted efficiency because

Answer 8

They ran government with business and management skills

Question 9

Robert La Follette

Answer 9

Governor whose Wisconsin Idea provided other states with a model for reforming government and regulating big businesses

Question 10

Wisconsin Idea

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Robert M. La Follette’s program that provided a model for government and business reform

Question 11

Arbitration

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Method used by Theodore Roosevelt to settle Pennsylvania coal mine dispute

Question 12

Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal promised all of the following

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1. Protection of consumer health
2. Improvements of working conditions
3. Promotion of public safety

Question 13

Meat Inspection Act

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Consumer-protection law that required government examinations of animal food products shipped from one state to another

Question 14

Pure Food and Drug Act

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Consumer-protection law that requires listing of ingredients on labels for medicines and certain other consumable goods

Question 15

President Roosevelt worked for business reforms by

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Regulating railroads and trusts

Question 16

President Roosevelt fought business corruption by

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1. Filing antitrust suits
2. Increasing the ICC’s powers
3. Urging passage of consumer protection laws

Question 17

Reclamation

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Process of returning damaged land to productive status

Question 18

Mann Elkins Act

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Measure that expanded the regulatory powers of the ICC to include overseeing telephone and telegraph companies

Question 19

William Howard Taft

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President who initiated many progressive reforms, including the Sixteenth Amendment

Question 20

Payne-Aldrich Tariff

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Measure signed by Taft, costing him progressives support

Question 21

Taft lost progressive support because

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He showed a lack of commitment to low tariffs

Question 22

President Taft’s firing of conservationist Gifford Pinchot led to

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A split between Taft’s and Roosevelt’s supporters

Question 23

New Nationalism

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Bull Moose party program that supported tough social legislation

Question 24

New Nationalism

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Theodore Roosevelt’s program of social legislation that promoted labor interests, public health, and the regulation of big business

Question 25

George Norris

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Proposed that the Speaker of the House be excluded from the membership of the Rules Committee

Question 26

Progressive Party

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Formed by Theodore Roosevelt after losing the 1912 Republican presidential nomination to William Howard Taft

Question 27

Woodrow Wilson

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Candidate who won the 1912 presidential election in part because of a split in the Republican vote

Question 28

New Freedom

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Wilson’s campaign program advocating limited government involvement in fighting business and political corruption

Question 29

The Socialist candidate for president in 1912 was

Answer 29

Eugene Debs

Question 30

The three following things are true of the 1912 presidential election

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1. American voters had a choir of three reform candidates
2. Roosevelt and Taft split the Republican vote
3. Woodrow Wilson won the election

Question 31

To lower tariffs and prevent bank failures, President Wilson urged passage of

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The Underwood Tariff Act and Federal Reserve Act

Question 32

President Wilson helped pass the Clayton Antitrust Act and

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Established the Federal Trade Commission to regulate big business

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One role of the Federal Commission was to

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Limit unfair corporate practices

Question 34

Federal Workmen’s Compensation Act

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Provided aid to federal workers injured on the job

Question 35

The Keating-Owen Child Labor Act

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1. Was an attempt to outlaw interstate sales of products produced with child labor
2. Supported by Woodrow Wilson and National Consumers League
3. Declared unconstitutional in 1918

Question 36

Alice Paul

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Founder of National Women’s party, which focused on suffrage

Question 37

Carrie Chapman Catt

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Suffragist who believed that the vote was only an “opening wedge”

Question 38

Women won the right to vote with

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Ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

Question 39

Equal rights of African Americans was

Answer 39

A reform progressives neglected