Ch 6: The Progressive Spirit of Reform

City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called

• political machines
• political mobs
• voting leagues
• voting drives

William Howard Taft's main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he

• Opposed big business regulation
• Claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed
• Hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business
• Encouraged the formation of monopolies

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called

• the Great Society
• the Fair Play Accord
• the Square Deal
• the New Way

Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought

• women should focus on the prohibition of alcohol
• women voters would support government anticorruption efforts
• only married women should have a voice in government
• women voters would support minimum wage and child labor

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as

• Progressives
• reformers
• muckrakers
• capitalists

What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?

• Mexicans could cross the U.S. border with relative ease
• Mexicans became a key part of the Southwest economy
• Mexicans  could occupy areas that once belonged to Mexico
• Mexicans immigrated with their children and extended families

What was Booker T. Washington's strategy towards ending discrimination?

• write articles exposing the lynching of African-Americans
• encouraged African-Americans to improve their educational and economic well-being
• encourages them to fight for suffrage
• by picketing and going on hunger strikes

Who were reformers who worked together to improve society?

• Political Machines 
• Socialists
• Capitalists
• Progressives

Whose reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely?

• John Dewey
• William Howard Taft
• William McKinley
• Boss Tweed

Describe the result of workplace laws passed during the Progressive movement.

• Eased reformers minds but were not always enforced
• Increased trust between labor and big business
• Caused big business to take operations abroad
• Let to decreased government interference in the economy