Gilded and Progressive Review

What established that no state could deny a citizen the right to vote on the basis of sex?

• 18th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

________ is the theory that the government should not interfere in the operation of the free market, hands off economics, governments did little to regulate big business.

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Philanthropy

• Bessemer Process

• Laissez-faire

_________ made his fortune in the oil industry, he virtually had a Monopoly

• Andrew Carnegie

• W.E.B DuBois

• Jacob Riis

• John D. Rockefeller

Upton Sinclair’s 1906 The Jungle led to –

• Passage of the Endangered Species Act

• Establishment of the National Park Service

• Efforts to clean up cities and city government

• The nation’s first pure food and drug laws

How did the initiative, referendum, and recall change the U.S. political system?

• By making the president more responsive in Congress

• By increasing citizen participation in government

• By giving parties more control over the electoral process

• By increasing the influence of the media on elections

Which of these was a major goal of Jane Addam’s Settlement House movement?

• The founding of women’s colleges

• The introduction of prison reform

• The establishment of public libraries

• The assimilation of immigrants

The primary objective of the Dawes Act was to -

• Promote American Indian investment in private industry

• End warfare between American Indians and the U.S. military

• Promote cultural assimilation of American Indians

• Turn American Indian reservations into corporate farmland

The Progressive Era was characterized by -

• The rush to settle the western frontier

• The advancement of civil rights for African Americans

• Major political, social, and economic reforms

• Bread lines and bank failures

___________________________________________ was president during the Progressive Era and is known as being a trust buster.

• William McKinley

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Donald Trump

The ____________ was passed to help dissolve monopolies.

• Homestead Act

• Interstate Commerce Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• 16th Amendment