The Progressive Movement (ch6) 21-22

The Bureau of Mines was created by President Taft to monitor the activities of mining companies, protect waterpower sites from private development, and

• create national seashores

• curb industrial pollution

• encourage hunting laws

• expand the national forests

Progressives who focused on making government more efficient wanted the heads of city departments to be selected by a city manger or

• a board of commissioner

• the city council

• the mayor

• a political party

Roosevelt believed that Taft's focus on breaking up trusts would

• destroy the system of cooperation and regulation Roosevelt had arranged

• please Progressives and help the Republicans stay in power

• promote competition and lower prices for consumers

• ruin the efficiency of businesses and cause prices to rise

What did most Progressives share a strong faith in?

• the commitment of politicians to serve the people

• Social Darwinism

• the market's ability to solve social problems

• science and technology

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 outlawed practices that restricted competition but

• allowed price discrimination

• did not break up monopolies

• exempted labor unions

• permitted unfair trade practices

Wanting to improve efficiency in city governments, one group of Progressives proposed that cities be run by

• city councils elected by the people

• city managers or commissioners

• mayors appointed by parties

• mayors elected by the people

What did President Woodrow Wilson believe lower tariff rates would lead American companies to?

• form larger trusts

• go out of business

• improve products and lower prices

• invest in foreign companies

In the election of 1912, Theodore Roosevelt proposed increasing regulation, favored laws to protect women and children in the labor force, and

• advocated woman suffrage

• criticized large trusts

• promoted utility regulatory boards

• supported workers' compensation

During the Progressive movement, why did women realize they needed the right to vote?

• to achieve equality in the workplace

• to amend the Constitution

• to elect candidates who supported woman suffrage

• to promote reforms and pass labor laws

Who was Secretary of the Interior, James R. Garfield replaced by, angering Progressives?

• Richard A Ballinger

• J.P. Morgan

• John Muir

• Gifford Pinchot