Check Your Understanding- Chapter 28 Flashcards
Which of the following was not among the authors and books that strongly influenced the early progressive movement?
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
All the following were true of the muckrakers except
they won this unfavorable moniker from Theodore Roosevelt because they opposed his practice of trust-busting.
Muckraking journalist Lincoln Steffens set the pattern for many other progressive reporters with his expose of
corruption in American big cities.
Progressives achieved a major political victory in 1913 with the successful passage of the Seventeenth Amendment, providing for
the direct election of senators.
Most female progressive activists
believed that women’s votes would elevate the political tone.
Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to indicate that the progressives’ highest priority was
governmental efficiency.
Many female progressives focused on issues like child labor, education, and urban housing because
they saw these issues as extensions of women’s traditional roles as wives and mothers.
In the case of Muller v. Oregon, progressive attorney Louis Brandeis persuaded the Supreme Court
to accept the constitutionality of limiting the hours of women workers.
Theodore Roosevelt’s Square Deal was based on the essential theory that
the federal government should represent the public interest in the growing conflict between big business and labor.
President Roosevelt did NOT run for re-election in 1908 because
he felt bound by his 1904 campaign pledge that he would serve only one more term.
All of the following were true of President William Taft except
his political skill was displayed during his successful battle to lower the tariff in 1909.
All of the following were true of dollar diplomacy except
Taft proved reluctant to use the lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad.
