Midterm Review #3- Progressive Era

Midterm Review #3- Progressive Era

Multiple Choice

What was the name of the progressive political party formed by T. Roosevelt after he lost the Republican Party nomination?

• The G.O.P.

• The Bull Moose Party

• The Democratic Party

• The Pirate Party

Multiple Choice

Which person won the U.S. Election of 1912

• Teddy Roosevelt

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Eugene Debs

Multiple Choice

___________: The system in which support is given only to the countries whose moral beliefs are similar to that of the democratic United States.

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Big Stick Diplomacy

• Moral Diplomacy

Multiple Choice

The policy of using economic investment to protect U.S. interests abroad:

• Territory

• Protectorate

• Dollar Diplomacy

• Isthmus

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes W.E.B. Du Bois’s approach to civil rights?

• give and take between races

• gradual attainment of civil rights

• complete civil rights immediately

• economic equality with social segregation

Multiple Choice

Why did Booker T. Washington believe it was important to learn a trade?

• It allowed black people to own their own business.

• It guaranteed immediate civil rights for black people.

• It made black people more employable to white business owners.

• It offered a simple way for black people to take out government loans.

Multiple Choice

In 1895, DuBois became the first African American to receive a doctoral degree from the University of

• None
• Harvard
• Buffalo
• Oxford

Multiple Choice

In 1909, who helped found the NAACP?

• Booker T Washington

• Alexander Graham Bell

• WEB DuBois

• Thomas Edison

Multiple Choice

Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?

• William Lloyd Douglas
• W.E.B. Du Bois
• George Washington     
• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

Which person accepted social separation and believed racial equality could be achieved through vocational education?

•  Booker T. Washington
• Martin Luther King, Jr. 
• . W.E.B. Du Bois                               
• William Lloyd Douglas

Multiple Choice

-Born into slavery on a plantation in Virginia -Believed equality could be achieved through vocational education -Organized the Tuskegee Institute for agricultural and industrial education

• W.E.B. Du Bois
• Rosa Parks
• Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Booker T. Washington

Multiple Choice

What famous phrase came out of the Plessy case?

• "Separate but equal"

• "Give me liberty or give me death."

• "By any means necessary"

Multiple Choice

What was one of the results of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.

• The Supreme Court never made a ruling.

• The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.

Multiple Choice

Plessy and the other members of his organization were trying to challenge

• the Brown v. Board of Education case

• Segregation and the Jim Crow laws

• Reconstruction

• equal pay for equal work

Multiple Choice

Wilson created the Federal Reserve in 1913 to

• help to control interest rates and promote economic growth and stability and controlling inflation and deflation
• monitor business practices that lead to monopolies.
• set a standard 8 hour working day for all railroad workers.
• provide wages for disabled civil service workers.

Multiple Choice

Why did some people oppose the graduated income tax that was part of the Underwood Tariff Act of 1913?

• They believed it interfered with the Federal Reserve Act.
• They thought it would have a negative effect on the economy.
• They believed it was in conflict with the Sixteenth Amendment.
• They thought it would increase tariffs on foreign imported goods.

Multiple Choice

What did President Wilson refer to as the "triple wall of privilege"?

• race, gender, and class
• tariffs, banks, and trusts
• saving accounts, stocks, and bonds
• the Elkins Act, the Hepburn Act, and the Federal Reserve Act

Multiple Choice

What replaces the tariff as the largest source of money for the US government?

• Monopolies

• Income Tax

• Property Tax

• Federal Reserve

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was NOT something that Wilson vowed to fight?

• Poverty

• Wealth

• Banks

• Tariffs

Multiple Choice

What did the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol
• Allowed citizens to directly elect their U.S. Senators
• Gave Congress the power to regulate the use of water
• Gave Congress the power the power to tax personal incomes

Multiple Choice

What did the Federal Reserve Act (1913) do?

• Created a Federal Board and series of banks to manage funds
• Created large areas of land that were protected from development
• Created a federal department to inspect food and medicine 
• Created an tax on the personal incomes of Americans

Multiple Choice

What did the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Gave women the right to vote.
• Gave former slaves and free blacks the right to vote.
• Gave Congress the ability to tax the income of Americans
• Allowed for the direct election of U.S. Senators by the people.

Multiple Choice

What did the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution do?

• Prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol
• Allowed citizens to directly elect their U.S. Senators
• Gave Congress the power to regulate the use of water
• Gave Congress the power the power to tax personal incomes

Multiple Choice

What did the Federal Reserve Act (1913) do?

• Created a Federal Board and series of banks to manage funds

• Created large areas of land that were protected from development

• Created a federal department to inspect food and medicine

• Created an tax on the personal incomes of Americans

Multiple Choice

During the Progressive Era, one goal of state-level political reformers was to —

• prevent party leaders from amending campaign platforms

• increase the influence of business owners on regulatory legislation

• promote the principle of direct democracy

• limit the use of judicial review by circuit courts

Multiple Choice

The Pendleton Act required jobs to be -

• based on the political party affiliation of the applicant

• determined by a merit system based on civil service examinations

• based on the approval of lawmakers

• set aside for business executives of large corporations

Multiple Choice

What amendment did the members of the Temperance movement work to achieve?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

Multiple Choice

These reforms made the government directly accountable to the citizens.

• Referendum, recall, initiative, and 17th amendment

• 19th and 22nd Amendments

• Pendleton Act & Homestead Act

• 16th and 18th Amendments

Multiple Choice

The ratification of this amendment granted women’s suffrage -

• 18^th Amendment

• 19^th Amendment

• 16^th Amendment

• 17^th Amendment

Multiple Choice

_____________________ is the thought that the government should regulate, not control, corrupt businesses.

• Socialism

• Progressive

• Reformism

• Civil Service

Multiple Choice

settlement house

• a house for settlers to live in while they are building their own home

• a development of houses that serves as a community

• an area of poverty that is a problem

• a center in an underprivileged area that provides community services

Multiple Choice

Campaign to stop abuse in the homes by urging people and the government to stop alcoholism.

• Women Suffrage
• Temperance Movement
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Fair Weather Fan

Multiple Choice

Men or women that fought for woman’s suffrage

• Suffragist
• Muckraker
• Klan Member
• People

Multiple Choice

What was the main goal of most muckraking journalists?

• Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
• Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
• Increase public awareness of America's great potential
• End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business

Multiple Choice

In 1890, during the Gilded Age, who wrote about and photographed the horrible living conditions of America's working poor in the book, How the Other Half Lives?

• Upton Sinclair

• Ida Tarbell

• Ida Wells

• Jacob Riis

Multiple Choice

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• Dangers faced by coal miners
• Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
• Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
• Illegal deals between special interests and the government

Multiple Choice

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

• Jacob Riis
• Lewis Hines
• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair

Multiple Choice

Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?

• Ida Tarbell
• Lewis Hines 
• Jacob Riis
• Upton Sinclair

Multiple Choice

People like Upton Sinclair were ___________________ because they investigated and exposed abuse and corruption.

• Supporters of Political Machines

• Nativists

• Muckrakers

• Industialists

Multiple Choice

The Temperance Movement, Women’s Suffrage Movement, and outlawing child labor were reform movements that took place during this era-

• Gilded Age

• Imperialism

• Progressive Era

• Roaring 20's

Multiple Choice

Many Progressives opposed social Darwinism because it promoted the idea that

• people in lower classes were not capable of economic success
• immigration weakened national unity
• the government should take responsibility for the well-being of people
• poverty could be eradicated through increased economic regulation

Multiple Choice

This man was elected after Roosevelt to continue the progressive reform agenda.

• Andrew Johnson
• Franklin Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft
• William McKinley

Multiple Choice

This president created the national parks system and helped to preserve America's natural resources

• Teddy Roosevelt
• Grover Cleveland
• William McKinley
• Franklin Roosevelt

Multiple Choice

This law banned harmful medical products and false medical claims.

• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Food Inspection Act
• Meat Inspection Act
• Pure Food Analysis Act

Multiple Choice

The Jungle--by muckraker Upton Sinclair--exposed the unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry and led to this law

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Meat Inspection Act
• Food Cleanliness Act
• Clayton Anti-Meat Act

Multiple Choice

What nickname did Roosevelt get after breaking up monopolies with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?

• Trustbuster
• Monopolybuster
• Theodore Roosevelt Destroyer of Trusts
• Slayer of trusts and eradicator of monopolies

Multiple Choice

The agreement that Teddy Roosevelt negotiated between striking workers and management at a coal mine

• New Deal
• Fair Deal
• Square Deal
• Super Deal

Multiple Choice

What legislation allowed the government to regulate big businesses like railroads and dissolve monopolies?

• Pure Food and Drug Act & Chinese Exclusion Act

• Civil Rights Act 1964 & Voting Rights Act 1965

• Homestead Act & Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act & Interstate Commerce Act

Multiple Choice

Which agency did the federal government establish to protect consumer’s safety as a response to Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

• Pure Food and Drug Administration

• NAACP

• National Park Service

• Environmental Protection Agency

Multiple Choice

Who wrote The Jungle?

• Upton Sinclair

• John Adams

• Nathaniel Hawthorne

• Steven Spielberg

Multiple Choice

Teddy Roosevelt was a member of the ____________________.

• Rough Riders

• police

• firefighters

• baseball team

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was one thing that Roosevelt did as part of his efforts to regulate business?

• Regulating the amount of money meat packers could make
• Regulating railroad rates
• Regulating the wages businesses could pay workers
• Regulating the number of employees each factory could have

Multiple Choice

Teddy Roosevelt was known as a "trust-buster." What does that mean?

• He worked to break up small businesses

• He worked with big monopolies to make them stronger

• He worked to break up large monopolies

• He let the companies operate without any government interference

Multiple Choice

Which statement accurately describes an aspect of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency?

• He signed a law granting U.S. citizenship to Native Americans.
• He reduced America's involvement in foreign affairs.
• He popularized conservation and respect for natural wonders.
• He refused to take legal action against monopolies and trusts.

Multiple Choice

Who was the president during WWI?

• Teddy Roosevelt
• William McKinley
• Herbert Hoover
• Woodrow Wilson

Multiple Choice

What does the A in M.A.I.N stand for?

• Allegiance
• Assignment
• Alliances 
• Aliens

Multiple Choice

What does the I in M.A.I.N stand for?

• Isolationism 
• Inspectionism 
• Inception  
• Imperialism 

Multiple Choice

What was one of the three reasons United States joined the war?

• Germany bombed America
• Britain declared war on the U.S. 
• Germany used unrestricted submarine warfare
• France invaded Germany

Multiple Choice

What caused the U.S. and German relations to deteriorate in 1915?

• German invasion of Belgium
• German blockade
• Sinking of the Lusitania
• German embargo on U.S. goods

Multiple Choice

What is a devotion to the interests and culture of one's nation?

• Imperialism
• Alliance
• Nationalism
• Militarism

Multiple Choice

What is the policy of building up armed forces in aggressive preparedness for war?

• Militarism
• Nationalism 
• Imperialism
• Alliances

Multiple Choice

What was propaganda used for during WWI?

• Get Americans to support the war

• Convince Germans to fight back

• Convince Americans to not support the war

• Convince Americans to speak their mind

Multiple Choice

The United States tried to stay out of the war for several years, this is called

• Nationalism

• Neutrality

• Imperialism

• Militarism

Multiple Choice

Countries choosing sides is referred to as

• Nationalism

• Imperialism

• Militarism

• Alliances

Multiple Choice

One of the major reasons the United States went to war was over Germany's submarine warfare. The other was friendship with---

• France
• Great Britain
• Italy
• Russia