Progressive Era Quiz

Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas in the early twentieth century?

• Government-subsidized housing for the poor
• Modern and sleek no-frills apartments that housed poor families
• Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments
• Light-manufacturing factories prevalent in many urban warehouse districts

Around 1900, if an ordinary American city dweller, whether immigrant or native-born, needed a favor done by a person with authority, he or she would have most likely turned to whom?

• A newspaper columnist
• An alderman or ward boss
• An ombudsman
• A member of Congress

The City Beautiful movement is associated with which of the following activities?

• Efforts to clean up the mud rivers created by spring rains in many cities
• Attempts to clean up the tremendous air pollution that hung in the air of many cities
• Attempts to build more and better urban park spaces, including playgrounds and gardens
• Efforts by municipal commissioners to preserve green space in rapidly expanding industrial cities

The settlement houses that emerged in early twentieth-century cities established which new occupational field?

• Midwifery
• Social Work
• Early Childhood Education
• Political bureaucrat

Why was the New York legislation dealing with safety in factories and wages-and-hour laws for women and children was enacted?

• Anthracite Coal Strike
• Danbury Hatters Boycott
• Niagara Movement
• Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Which of the following describes the urban political machines of the late nineteenth century?

• They mediated between municipal governments and state and federal governments.
• Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble.
• Political machines were an obstacle to the creation of urban infrastructure.
• They protected American city-dwellers from powerful economic interests.

What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working-class people they served through settlement houses in early twentieth century cities?

• The resources and political voice they needed to improve their lives
• Lessons on American history to help recent immigrants assimilate
• A stronger sense of “civic enterprise and moral conviction”
• Art classes and other cultural programs to expand their minds

Why was Margaret Sanger’s newspaper column “What Every Girl Should Know” significant?

• The column educated girls and women about the dangers of prostitution.
• It contributed to launching a national birth control movement.
• Sanger linked the practice of “treating” with sexually transmitted diseases.
• It publicized the notion that women as well as men could attend college.

What spurred the U.S. Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?

• A horrific yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee, that killed 12 percent of its people
• The publication of Leona Prall Groetzinger’s expose titled “The City’s Perils”
• High infant mortality rates that resulted from the widespread problem of adulterated milk
• A public uproar caused by Upton Sinclair’s realist novel The Jungle

The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals?

• Limiting the power of big business
• Ameliorating poverty
• Promoting social justice
• Bringing full equality to blacks