Chapter 18: The Progressive Era

Question 0

What was a benefit of secret ballot elections?

Answer 0

Reduced voter intimidation

Question 1

What was Progressivism?

Answer 1

Favored acheiving political and social reform through education wider political participation by all classes of society and direct government action

Question 2

What is a direct primary?

Answer 2

Nomination of candidate by popular vote

Question 3

What is ‘initiative’?

Answer 3

Voters can intiate legislation without legislature

Question 4

What is ‘referendum’?

Answer 4

People vote to accept/reject a law

Question 5

What is a ‘recall’?

Answer 5

Special election to remove an election official

Question 6

What is trust-busting?

Answer 6

Breaking up monopolies

Question 7

What new industries were regulated/owned by the government?

Answer 7

Gas and Water (Socialism)

Question 8

What is the 16th amendment?

Answer 8

Federal income tax (makes up for loss of revenue from tariffs)

Question 9

What is the 17th amendment?

Answer 9

Direct election of Senators

Question 10

What was the 18th amendment?

Answer 10

Prohibition- ban on manufacture, slae, or transportation of alcoholic beverages

Question 11

What was the 19th amendment?

Answer 11

Granted women’s suffrage

Question 12

Who were two “suffragettes”?

Answer 12

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony

Question 13

What were muckrakers?

Answer 13

Writers who exposed abuses and corruption

Question 14

What did Lincoln Steffens report about? (muckraker)

Answer 14

Municipal corruption

Question 15

What Ida Tarbell report about?

Answer 15

Standard Oil

Question 16

Who was William Jennings Bryan?

Answer 16

Leader of progressive wing of Democratic party

Question 17

Who was Robert La Follette?

Answer 17

Republican leader

Question 18

Who was Eugene Debs?

Answer 18

Socialist leader

Question 19

Name 3 progressive presidents.

Answer 19

Teddy Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson

Question 20

What was Roosevelt’s belief that everyone should receive fair treatment and equal opportunity called?

Answer 20

the Square Deal

Question 21

What nickname did Roosevelt earn, due to his attacking on the abuse of business?

Answer 21

Square Deal

Question 22

What were acts that attempted to control conduct of business for the public good called?

Answer 22

Regulation

Question 23

What was the Hepburn Act?

Answer 23

Strengthened ICC ability to set rates for railroads and provisions for standard bookkeeping

Question 24

What was the Pure Food and Drug Act?

Answer 24

Outlawed the sale of impure food and honest labeling

Question 25

What did the Meat Inspection Act deal with?

Answer 25

Preparation and packaging of meat

Question 26

Who wrote 'The Jungle' and what was its purpose?

Answer 26

Upton Sinclair; exposed the meat packing industry

Question 27

What major strike occurred in 1902?

Answer 27

Coal Strike

Question 28

What is Conservation?

Answer 28

Careful use of natural resources

Question 29

What was the Reclamation Act?

Answer 29

Set aside 100 million acres of land to be controlled by Govt.

Question 30

What racial group was discriminated against in California?

Answer 30

Asians

Question 31

What laws in the South forced segragation?

Answer 31

Jim Crow Laws

Question 32

What attempts were made to deprive blacks their right to vote?

Answer 32

Literacy Tests/Poll Taxes

Question 33

Who wrote 'Up from Slavery', and what was its purpose?

Answer 33

Booker T. Wahsington; urged blacks to concentrate on bettering themselves through education and black businesses

Question 34

Who was W.E.B. du Bois?

Answer 34

Pursued a political solution, cofounder of the NAACP

Question 35

What was Roosevelt's foreign policy?

Answer 35

"Speak softly and carry a big stick"

Question 36

Who attempted to win the affection of the Philippine's people?

Answer 36

Gov. William Howard Taft

Question 37

What created a link between the Atlantic and Pacific?

Answer 37

Panama Canal

Question 38

What was the Roosevelt Corollary?

Answer 38

Made the US policeman over Latin America

Question 39

What treaty was made to end the war with Russia and Japan?

Answer 39

Gentleman's Agreement

Question 40

What was the purpose of Roosevelt's Great White Fleet?

Answer 40

To show US military strength to the World

Question 41

Who was handpicked by Roosevelt as his successor on the Republican ticket?

Answer 41

William Howard Taft

Question 42

Who ran for Democrats in 1908?

Answer 42

William Jennings Bryan

Question 43

What was the Payne-Aldrich tariff?

Answer 43

Attempt to lower rates

Question 44

What was the result of Congressional Reform?

Answer 44

Speaker of the House powers limited

Question 45

What caused Taft's split with Roosevelt?

Answer 45

His anti-trust proceedings against US Steel

Question 46

What is 'Dollar Diplomacy'?

Answer 46

Attempt to influence foreign affairs through investments

Question 47

What new party did Roosevelt form?

Answer 47

Progressive Party (nicknamed Bull Moose Party)

Question 48

Who ran for Republicans in the election of 1912?

Answer 48

Taft

Question 49

Who was the Democrats candidate in 1912?

Answer 49

Woodrow Wilson

Question 50

What was the Underwood Tariff Act?

Answer 50

First real reform since the CIvil War

Question 51

What is the Federal Reserve Act?

Answer 51

Set up a privately controlled central banking system

Question 52

What new policies affected business and labor?

Answer 52

Clayton Antitrust Act and Federal Trade Commission