Progressive Era Review

The federal government's approach to regulating monopolies in the early 1900s was to

• break up corporate trusts

• avoid interfering with strikes

• regulate corporate profits

• avoid free and open competition

Reforms of the Progressive Movement: Direct primary; Initiative, referendum, and recall; Direct election of senators. What was the purpose of these reforms?

• expanding participation in the political process

• reducing government's influence in the economy

• giving more power to political parties

• increasing federal control over the states

The Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 and the Sherman Antitrust Act both tried to

• restrict labor unions.

• regulate foreign trade.

• restrict the power of big businesses.

• regulate the employment of children.

In the 1880s, popular concern about railroad abuses such as price fixing, kickbacks, and unfair freight rates led to the

• Pendleton Civil Service Act.

• Interstate Commerce Act.

• March of the Unemployed.

• Haymarket Square Riot.

Members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union were most interested in promoting

• an eight-hour workday for child laborers.

• an end to United States involvement in war.

• the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.

• the rapid assimilation of new immigrants.

During the administration of President Theodore Roosevelt, Congress passed two important consumer protection acts that became part of Roosevelt's Square Deal. These two acts were the

• Sherman Antitrust Act and the Volstead Act.

• Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act.

• Wagner Act and the Taft-Hartley Act.

• Pendleton Act and the Interstate Commerce Act.

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. 19th Amendment, United States Constitution, 1920. Which movement worked for the passage of the above amendment to the United States Constitution?

• Equal Rights

• Civil Rights

• Women's Suffrage

• Social Gospel

Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one-half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation, in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of the United States. Declaration of Sentiments, 1848. Which principle can be generalized from this quote from the Declaration of Sentiments?

• Women should have free public education.

• Women should have the right to religious freedom.

• Women should have the same rights as men.

• Women should have special protection in the judicial system.

Which muckraker is known for exposing abuses in the oil industry?

• Jacob Riis

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

The Supreme Court supported Jim Crow laws through decisions like the one in the 1896 case of

• Miranda v. Arizona.

• Schenck v. United States.

• Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.