Chapter 8 Review

The term “muckraker” was used in the early 1900’s to describe

• Street sweepers

• Investigative journalists

• Farmers

• Garden designers

Women spent more than 70 years actively seeking _________, or the right to vote.

• Initiative

• Petition

• Recall

• Suffrage

The temperance movement was linked to the ____________ of alcohol.

• Prohibition

• Production

• Reduction

• Requisition

When Gifford Pinchot leaked a story to the press against William Taft’s will, the president fired him for

• Arbitration

• Prohibition

• Insubordination

• Initiation

Progressivism used the principles of science to solve problems resulting from

• Industrialization and urbanization

• Global warming and fossil fuel use

• The outbreak of war and proliferation of weapons

• epidemic diseases and plagues

Which of the following allowed proposed legislation to be placed on the ballot for voter approval?

• Direct primary

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

What did the Nineteenth Amendment accomplish?

• It allowed the voters to directly elect senators.

• It taxed people's income.

• It granted women the right to vote.

• It banned the sale, distribution, and use of alcohol.

Theodore Roosevelt became known as a trustbuster for his actions against

• The Northern Securities Company

• The United Mine Workers

• The automobile industry

• National Parks

Upton Sinclair’s novel “The Jungle” was instrumental in exposing which industry?

• Steel Industry

• Meatpacking Industry

• Oil Industry

• Alcohol Industry

President Taft broke with Roosevelt and Progressives over

• Unions

• Child Labor

• Trust-busting

• Tariffs