Progressive Legislation Reading Quiz

Question 0

Rose Shneiderman

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29 years old. Labor leader. Jewish immigrant from Poland. Best-known women labor leader. Helped stir powerful public support for reforms.

Question 1

Shirtwaist Company fire. 10-story. Many women died.

Answer 1

Shirtwaist Company Fire

Question 2

Helped ensure a minimum standard of living

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Social Welfare Reforms

Question 3

A system that gives cities a limited degree of self-rule.

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Home Rule

Question 4

City level

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Municipal

Question 5

An election in which citizens vote to select nominees for upcoming elections.

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Direct Primary

Question 6

A process that allows citizens to approve or reject a las passed by the legislature.

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Referendum

Question 7

Permits voters to remove public officials from office before the next election.

Answer 7

Recall

Question 8

A firm that buys up stocks and bonds of smaller companies.

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Holding Company

Question 9

Municipal reformers opposed the influence of ___?

Answer 9

Political bosses

Question 10

Ran for mayor of NYC, supported by municipal reformers. Against Tammany Hall. Low lost, but then won in 1901.

Answer 10

Seth Low

Question 11

Powerful hurricane in Gulf of Mexico slammed into Galveston, Texas. Led to?

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Galveston Model

Question 12

Galveston Model?

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Emergency commission of five administrators to replace the mayor and aldermen. The commission handled the rebuilding with such efficiency that Galveston permanently instituted the commission form of government. Other cities adapted it too.

Question 13

Reformers made efforts to regulate or dislodge….?

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Monopolies that provided city utilities such as water, gas, and electricity.

Question 14

Reform mayors?

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Hazen a. Pingree of Detroit
Samuel M. Jones of Toledo
Tom Johnson of Cleveland

Question 15

Pingree provided?

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Public baths, parks, and a work-relied program from Detroit.

Question 16

Jones provided?

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Playgrounds, free kindergartens, and lodging houses for the homeless in Toledo.

Question 17

Robert M. La Follette

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Instituted a direct primary. One of the most determined progressives in U.S. Policies. “Fighting Bob” (earned through efforts to clean up govt. and produce social welfare reforms. He hosted party bosses and brought about structural changes such as a direct primary and civil service reform.

Question 18

Lochner v. New York

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Supreme Court struck down a law setting maximum hours for bakers. Court said that since law had not been shown to protect public health, the law constitutes improper use of the state’s police power.

Question 19

Muller v. Oregon

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Court upheld an Oregon law that limited hours for female laundry workers to 10 hours a day.

Question 20

Louis D. Brandeis

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Lawyer that represented the interests of the laundry workers. Using scientific evidence.

Question 21

16th Amendment

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Authorized congress to collect federal income taxes. Enabled govt. to get more revenues from people with higher incomes.

Question 22

17th Amendment

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Allowing direct election of senators.

Question 23

18th Amendment

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Banned the production, sale, or import of alcoholic beverages.

Question 24

Not all progressives favored…?

Answer 24

Prohibition