Quiz 23-1

Muckrakers saw their primary objective as:

• converting Americans to socialism

• exposing social problems to the public

• increasing the circulation of sensationalist newspapers

• proposing detailed legislation

Ida Tarbell's revelations in her History of the Standard Oil Company (1904) helped convince the Supreme Court in 1911

• to rule that the company was a monopoly and must be broken up

• to dismiss the suit against it

• to rule that Standard Oil was the model for all future companies

• to postpone its ruling

Which of the following best describes the methods used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?

• adoption of socialist programs of public ownership

• following the principles of laissez-faire government

• regulation of big business

• lowering of taxes so that companies would raise wages

The National Child Labor Committee pushed:

• to allow as many immigrant children to enter the workforce as possible

• to open more technical schools

• for federal legislation allowing children to work more hours

• for laws prohibiting the employment of young children

In 1917, a Prohibition amendment to the Constitution:

• passed Congress, then went to the states for ratification

• failed to be ratified by the states as an Eighteenth Amendment

• was overturned by the 21st Amendment

• passed Congress but was vetoed by the President