The Progressive Era

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to

• replace capitalism with socialism

• transform the United States into an agrarian republic

• use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions

• eliminate class differences in the United States

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

• imposition of an income tax

• imposition of poll taxes

• extension of suffrage to women

• procedures for electing United States senators

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of

• the plight of Great Plains farmers in the 1890’s

• Jim Crow segregation and its effect on African Americans

• immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890’s

• corruption in city political machines in the 1890’s

President Theodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues during his presidency EXCEPT

• unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry

• monopolization and consolidation in the railroad industry

• insider trading on the stock market

• unsafe drug products

Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920's?

• They began to vote in national elections.

• They achieved income equality with men.

• They gained the right to initiate divorce proceedings.

• They began to serve in the armed forces

Which of the following emerged during the Progressive Era as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans?

• W. E. B. Du Bois

• Frederick Douglass

• Booker T. Washington

• Ida B. Wells

Which of the following best characterizes the conservationist approach to the environment that emerged in the Progressive Era?

• Designation of national parks and forests for recreation and managed use

• Use of federal money to clean up polluted industrial sites

• Passage of legislation banning the use of pesticides in agriculture

• Passage of legislation to ensure clean air and waterways

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT

• the continued efforts of the Anti-Saloon League

• the fervor of the First World War lending patriotism to the cause of prohibition

• the Progressive belief in social reform

• the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

Margaret Sanger is best known for her

• contribution to the radical suffragist movement

• endorsement of coeducation

• advocacy for birth control

• presidency of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union

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

• laborers who worked in the meatpacking industry

• writers who wrote articles sympathetic to big business

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

• journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty