APUSH (Henretta, 8th) Ch. 19 reading quiz

Which urban housing design, once hailed as a helpful innovation, turned out to be a dangerous blight on the cityscapes?

• The skyscrapers

• The settlement houses

• The tenement building

• The alms houses

• The rambler homes of the suburbs

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

• explain the causes of social ills.

• formulate a consistent philosophy of social reform.

• make the public aware of social problems

• devise solutions to society's problems.

• link up with movements for social justice.

The term “muckrakers” was used in the early twentieth century to refer to

• writers who wrote articles sympathetic to big business

• baseball players who lost important games on purpose to collect large bribes

• journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

• captains of industry who defended the accumulation of wealth in lectures and pamphlets

• laborers who worked in the meatpacking industry

Although corrupt, New York's Tammany Hall appealed to

• reformers seeking to improve the social landscape

• big businesses looking to boost profits.

• Republicans looking to extend Reconstruction efforts

• recent immigrants and job seekers

During the late nineteenth century, politicians such as Boss Tweed most likely would have opposed which of the following?

• Calls for reforms to local and state governments

• Social services provided to immigrants by local politicians

• Granting American Indians full citizenship and voting rights

• The expansion of the transcontinental railroad system

Jane Addams’s Hull House was established primarily to

• provide a place for immigrants receive needed support

• provide a halfway home for recently released criminals

• provide shelter for homeless

• offer a basic education to African-Americans

• provide legal services to immigrants seeking to fight illegal immigration criminal charges

Which of the following efforts most directly resulted from the Progressive Era reform movements?

• Calls to restrict migration from southern and eastern Europe

• Local campaigns that sought to fix urban social problems

• Attempts to consolidate large corporations

• Plans to develop an extensive social welfare system by the federal government

The leaders of the Progressive movement were primarily

• immigrant activists attempting to change restrictive immigration laws

• representatives of industries seeking higher tariffs

• farmers interested in improving agricultural production

• workers concerned with establishing industrial unions

• middle-class reformers concerned with urban and consumer issues

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to

• eliminate class differences in the United States

• bring about racial integration in public accommodations

• replace capitalism with socialism

• use government power to regulate industrial production of labor conditions

• transform the United States into an agrarian republic

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives EXCEPT

• the direct election of senators

• expanded civil rights for African Americans

• food safety

• women's suffrage