Unit 3 Quiz 1

Progressivism Dealt with all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

• limiting big business
• improving democracy
• strengthening social justice
• judicial review

A main purpose of President T. Roosevelt's trust-busting policies was to do what?

• reduce corruption in government
• save the nation's banks
• encourage competition in business
• end strikes by labor unions

T. Roosevelt, W. H. Taft, and W. Wilson are all considered progressives because they did what?

• Supported the formation of the first trade union
• used presidential power to break up strikes
• worked to limit the power of big business
• formed the first civil rights organizations

Progressive Era Reforms such as the initiative, referendum, and recall attempted to do what?

• increase the power of citizens in state and local gov't
• reestablish the system of checks and balances
• provide low-interest loans to farmers
• expand voting rights to native americans

An important political aim of Progressive movement was to...

• guarantee gov't jobs for the unemployed
• stimulate domocratic reforms such as the initiative and the referendum
• create a unicameral national legislature
• increase the participation of American Americans in Federal Gov't

Which of of the following individuals could be considered a muckraker? 

• Thomas Nast
• WEB Dubois
• Jane Addams
• Carrie Fisher

W.E.B. Dubois disagree with Booker T. Washington's:

• stress on civil rights
• suggestion that economic progress was more important than civil rights
• reasons for founding the Tuskegee Institute
• attitude toward emancipation of slaves

All of the following reforms were adopted during the Progressive Era EXCEPT:

• STRONGER ANTITRUST LAWS
• LOWER TARIFF RATES
• REGULATION OF THE MEATPACKING INDUSTRY
• FEDERAL ANTILYNCHING LAW

A belief shared by Presidents T. Roosevelt, W. Taft, and W. Wilson is that the Federal Gov't should:

• allow the free-enterprise system to work without regulation
• use its power to regulate unfair business
• provide jobs for unemployed workers
• support unions in labor management disputes

In what respects were the Populist and Progressive Movements similar?

• they were primarily urban based
• they wanted to bring about inflation by backing bimetalism
• they fought against segregation and other forms of racial discimination
• they advocated gov't intervention in economic matters to handle problems arising from industrialization