Unit 2 Test: Progressive Era

Which speaker’s statement is most directly related to the political concepts of initiative, referendum, and recall?

• Speaker A: The best way to prevent corruption in government is to allow citizens a direct role in the legislative process.
  
• Speaker B: Breaking up trusts and monopolies will increase business competition.
• Speaker D: Government will only improve when women are granted full suffrage.

In the early 20th century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly by

• organizing demonstrations in large cities
• lobbying members of Congress
• exposing corruption in business and government
  

President Theodore Roosevelt’s conservation efforts were influenced by a desire to

• protect natural resources for the future
• increase revenues through land sales
• return tribal lands to Native American Indians

The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in

• government regulation of unfair business practices
• increases in the power of monopolies
• reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy

The Federal Reserve System was created in 1913 to

• authorize Congress to set interest rates
• regulate the nation’s money supply
• take over the responsibility of printing money

"TWO MORE BRIGHT SPOTS ON THE MAP"
Information in the cartoon most clearly supports the conclusion that by 1914

• states along the East Coast had granted full voting rights to women
• most states had approved at least some voting rights for women
• complete national suffrage for women had been achieved

The Meat Inspection Act (1906) and the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) were efforts by the federal government to

• protect public health and safety
• support business monopolies
• regulate child labor

“United States ratifies the 17th Amendment” Which action addressed the problem suggested by this Progressive Era headline?

• instituting the direct election of senators
• establishing voting rights for eighteen-year-old citizens
• increasing the number of senators from each state

“…In other words, our demand is that big business give the people a square deal and that the people give a square deal to any man engaged in big business who honestly endeavors to do what is right and proper.…”— Theodore Roosevelt, “A Charter for Democracy,” February 21, 1912
This statement reflects President Theodore Roosevelt’s position that the federal governmentshould

• cease regulation of business activities
• regulate abusive business practices
• seize control of all trusts

Upton Sinclair, Frank Norris, and Ida Tarbell made their greatest contributions to theProgressive movement by

• working to end political corruption in cities
• supporting legislation to improve tenement housing
• publishing books and articles to expose the problems of society