Progressive Review

Which of the following best characterizes the "Square Deal" of Theodore Roosevelt?

• Conservation, trust-busting, consumer protection

• Protective tariffs, centralized banking, conservation

• Equal opporunity, women's suffrage, laissez faire economics

• Laissez-faire economics, support of labor unions, conservation

• Government ownership of business, conservation, naval

The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

• Farmers interested in improving agricultural production

• Immigrant activists attempting to change restrictive immigration laws

• Representatives of industries seeking higher tariffs

• Workers concerned with establishing industrial unions

• Middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

Which of the following statements best summarizes Theodore Roosevelt's position on trusts?

• Trusts are an economic evil and should be destroyed in every case.

• Only trusts in the railroad and oil industries are acceptable

• Good trusts should be tolerate while bad trusts are prevented from manipulating markets

• Anything standing in the way of economic competition is evil and should be removed.

In what way did the muckrakers contribute to the rise of Progressivism in the early twentieth century?

• Their lurid stories of European abuses led directly to American isolationism until World War I

• Their stories glorifying the rich and led to the supremacy of laissez-faire economic theories

• Their horror stories of Marxist infiltration into workers' unions led to public support for crackdowns against reform-minded unions and alliances

• Their exposes of government and business corruption, abuse, and mismanagement led to widely supported public demands for effective reform.

One reason early twentieth century muckrakers were able to have a significant impact on society was because

• Sales and circulation of new papers and magazines increased

• Most citizens of the United States were convinced that Jim Crow laws must be overturned

• They had the support of industrialists like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller

• Drought conditions in the Midwest drew attention to social problems

• Radio programs devoted to the problems in cities attracted wide listening audiences

All of the following are accurate descriptions of the Progressive movement EXCEPT:

• Membership was primarily working class and farmers

• Progressives felt threatened by the power of giant corporations and trusts and the explosions of immigrants entering the nation.

• Wanted to use power of state to control the trusts.

• Wanted to use power of state to prevent the threat of socialism by improving the conditions under which the working class lived and worked.

The Sixteenth Amendment did which of the following?

• Limited the president to two terms

• Created the federal income tax

• Outlawed the sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages?

• Ended prohibition

The Republican party was split in two by a political battle between Theodore Roosevelt and this individual who became the candidate of the regular Republicans in 1912:

• William Allen White

• William Howard Taft

• William Jennings Bryan

• William McKinley

The "Triple Wall of Privilege" Wilson promised to dismantle is best described by which of the following?

• Political corruption, urban governments, party bosses

• Labor unions, trusts, foreign investors

• Tariffs, banks, trusts

• Railroads, steel corporations, banks

In 1902 President Roosevelt proved the worth of his motto "Square Deal" when he took the side of which of the following groups in a national dispute?

• Immigrants

• Big business

• African Americans

• Labor unions