American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 20: THE PROGRESSIVES

True or False Quiz

1
Muckraker was the name given by Progressives to politicians who were accused of bribery and corruption.
A)True
B)False
2
As a general rule, Progressive reformers opposed placing governmental power in the hands of nonpartisan, nonelected bureaucrats, who were insulated from electoral politics.
A)True
B)False
3
The adoption by many American cities of the commission and city-manager systems of municipal government signaled an attempt to remove municipal government from the corrupting influence of party politics.
A)True
B)False
4
As a general rule, Progressives stressed the role of environment in explaining why poor people failed to succeed economically.
A)True
B)False
5
The settlement house movement led by Jane Addams provided an opportunity for educated women to get together in pastoral rural settings for intellectually stimulating retreats.
A)True
B)False
6
Professional women who entered the work force during the Progressive Era tended to be concentrated in the so-called helping professions such as teaching and nursing.
A)True
B)False
7
The women's club movement provided opportunities for women to exert influence on certain political issues as well as providing a social outlet.
A)True
B)False
8
The electoral devices of initiative, referendum, and direct primary were instituted in several states in order to give more political power to the average voter rather than the incumbent legislators.
A)True
B)False
9
The electoral device known as the "recall" allowed voters to remove an elected officeholder without waiting for the normal end of the officeholder's term of office.
A)True
B)False
10
In general, the increasing influence of interest groups during the Progressive Era strengthened the power of the two political parties.
A)True
B)False
11
America's entry into World War I and the moral fervor it unleashed helped provide the final push for the adoption of the national prohibition of alcoholic beverages.
A)True
B)False
12
Booker T. Washington's rhetoric tended to emphasize immediate economic self-improvement rather than long-range social change.
A)True
B)False
13
The so-called science of eugenics was used by factory reformers to justify improved health and safety conditions and to call for increased education for the workers.
A)True
B)False
14
Many Progressives, such as Herbert Croly and Theodore Roosevelt, argued that national economic regulation was the best way to deal with the challenges brought forward by the trusts.
A)True
B)False
15
Theodore Roosevelt became president as a result of the assassination of William McKinley.
A)True
B)False
16
As president, Roosevelt contended that big business or trusts were an unnatural occurrence in the economy and that the federal government had the obligation to "bust" them down to a more natural size.
A)True
B)False
17
By offering to mediate a major coal strike, Roosevelt moved toward taking the federal government away from an anti-labor stance toward a more neutral approach.
A)True
B)False
18
Roosevelt opposed the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Acts because they interfered with the laissez-faire rights of business.
A)True
B)False
19
The conservation movement was somewhat internally divided between naturalists who stressed the preservation of natural spaces and those who stressed managed exploitation of those resources.
A)True
B)False
20
Roosevelt blamed the Panic of 1907 on bankers and financiers and refused to cooperate with them in any efforts to revive the economy.
A)True
B)False
21
Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had been longtime rivals in the Republican Party before Taft became Roosevelt's vice president.
A)True
B)False
22
In the period between the time he left the White House and the election of 1912, Roosevelt drifted away from Progressivism and became more and more conservative in his approach to national policy issues.
A)True
B)False
23
Woodrow Wilson's so-called New Freedom program called for more effort to break up big business combinations than Roosevelt's New Nationalism did.
A)True
B)False
24
The Progressive Party of 1910 was nicknamed the "Bull Moose" party.
A)True
B)False
25
As president, Woodrow Wilson succeeded in getting Congress to pass general lowering of the nation's tariff rates.
A)True
B)False
26
The Federal Reserve Act made individual bank failures less likely but had little effect on the nation's basic circulating currency.
A)True
B)False
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