Chapter 4 Test

Question 1

Define Progressivism

Answer 1

Movement that responded to the pressures of industrialization and urbanization by promoting reforms

Question 2

Which class emerged as leaders of the PM, others that joined

Answer 2

Middle class

Question 3

What was the women’s goal in the urgent need for PM

Answer 3

The right to vote

Question 4

What are muckrakers?

Answer 4

A writer who uncovers and exposes misconduct in government or business or a tool used to clean manure out of animal’s stables

Question 5

Who is Lincoln Steffen?

Answer 5

Steffens was a leading muckraker whose reports exposed how the government of Philidelphia let utility companies charge their customers excessively high fees.

Question 6

Who is Jacob Riis?

Answer 6

An influential muckraker who was also a photographer. He turned his camera on the crowded, unsafe, rat-infested tenements where the urban poor lived. He wrote How the Other Half Lives which shocked the nation’s conscience and led to reforms

Question 7

Who is Upton Sinclair

Answer 7

He wrote The Jungle which told the story of the despair of immigrants working in Chicago’s stockyards and revealed the unsanitary conditions in the industry.

Question 8

Describe the Settlement House/Jane Addams

Answer 8

Jane Addams opened the nation’s first settlement house called, Hull House. Settlement houses were community centers that provided the following for the poor: child care, nursery schools, kindergartens, and theatre, art, and dance programs for adults

Question 9

Progressive towards workplace

Answer 9

Progressives wanted to make the workplace safer and better for everyone.

Question 10

election in which citizens themselves vote to select nominees for upcoming elections

Answer 10

Direct Primary

Question 11

18th Amendment

Answer 11

banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the United States

Question 12

19th Amendment

Answer 12

gave women the right to vote

Question 13

Name 2 colleges for women

Answer 13

School of Social Work

Bryn Mawr College

Question 14

Temperance Movement

Answer 14

Aimed to stop alcohol abuse

Question 15

Frances Willard

Answer 15

The leader of the Temperance movement and her fight led to the 18th Amendment

Question 16

Margaret “B” Sanger

Answer 16

She thought women’s health would improve if mothers had fewer children. She opened the 1st Birth Control Clinic and founded the Birth Control League

Question 17

Ida B. Wells

Answer 17

Leader of the anti-lynching campaign and the National Association of Colored Women. She was an African American and a journalist

Question 18

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 18

Civil Rights activist and fought for the right to vote. She was also the leader of the National Women’s Suffrage Association

Question 19

Define Americanization

Answer 19

Americanize immigrants

Question 20

Plessy v. Ferguson

Answer 20

Upheld Jim Crow Laws; in 1910 segregation became normal, but it was 1914 before Washington D.C. was segregated

Question 21

What’s the difference between the NA Dawes Act and American Indian Citizenship Act of 19..

Answer 21

The Dawes Act divides the reservation into plots for NA. The American Indian Citizenship made all NA citizens.

Question 22

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 22

Known as a trustbuster, governor of NY and was anti-monopoly and republican

Question 23

Meat Inspection Act

Answer 23

In 1906, we began inspecting meat sold across state lines and required federal inspection of meat processing plants

Question 24

Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 24

In 1906, federal inspection of food and medicine that banned the interstate shipment and sale of impure foods and the mislabeling of food and drugs (this led to the FDA)

Question 25

Who did the US got to war with in 1898?

Answer 25

Spain

Question 26

Jose Marti’s influence Cuba

Answer 26

He launched a war for independence from Spain. With the cries of “Cuba Libre!” (“Free Cuba!”), rebel fighters used guerrilla tactics of hit-and-run raids against Spanish forces. He essentially started a rebellion against Spain in Cuba

Question 27

Explosion of Maine

Answer 27

Soon after a letter that said Pres. McKinley was a weak and stupid politician was leaked, the Maine exploded in Havana Harbor. THe blame was immediately shifted to Spain. However McKinley ordered a special naval board to investigate the cause of the explosion before declaring war on Spain. The board concluded that a mine had destroyed Maine. This was the main cause of the Spanish American War.

Question 28

Philippines during the Spanish American War

Answer 28

During the S-A-W the Philippines gained their independence

Question 29

What is guerrilla warfare?

Answer 29

Nontraditional combat methods where small bands of fighters attack behind enemy lines

Question 30

Why was the Spanish American War significant?

Answer 30

As a result of the war, the United States had an empire and a new stature in world affairs. The war marked a turning point in the history of American foreign policy.

Question 31

Power to collect an income tax without restrictions

Answer 31

16th Amendment

Question 32

Law placed national banks under the control of Board

Answer 32

Federal Reserve Act (1913)

Question 33

Identify monopolistic business practices

Answer 33

Federal Trade Commission

Question 34

Control of the money supply by a central authority

Answer 34

Monetary Policy

Question 35

Domination of strong nations over weaker territories

Answer 35

Imperialism

Question 36

Removed raw materials

Answer 36

Extractive Economies

Question 37

Military historian, officer in the united states navy

Answer 37

Alfred T. Mahan

Question 38

Certain nations a races were superior to others

Answer 38

Social Darwinism

Question 39

Controls on corporation in order to benefit small businesses

Answer 39

New Freedom

Question 40

Political party

Answer 40

Progressive party

Question 41

Noted that the frontier had been closed by gradual settlement

Answer 41

Frederick Jackson Turner

Question 42

Plan to restore the government trustbusting power

Answer 42

New Nationalism

Question 43

Roosevelt’s program to keep the wealthy from taking advantage of small businesses

Answer 43

Square Deal

Question 44

What is the 17th Amendment?

Answer 44

The Senate of the U.S. must be composed of two Senators from each state, elected by the people