Chapter 6 - The Progressive Era

City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called ________________.

• political machines

• political mobs

• voting leagues

• voting drives

William Howard Taft's main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he _________________.

• claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed.

• opposed big business regulation.

• hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business.

• encouraged the formation of monopolies.

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and business people was called __________________________.

• the Great Society.

• the Fair Play Accord.

• the Square Deal.

• the New Way.

Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought ______________________

• women voters would support minimum wage and child labor laws.

• women should focus on the prohibition of alcohol.

• women voters would support government anticorruption efforts.

• only married women should have a voice in government.

Politicians best confronted corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age by _______________________

• increasing security at the polls.

• passing a law that established a new system for granting federal jobs.

• recruiting honest, reform minded candidates to run for office.

• identifying it as a partisan problem.

Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly?

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Booker T. Washington

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Which statement best describes the result of work place laws passed during the Progressive movement?

• increased trust between labor and big business

• eased reformers' minds but were not always enforced

• caused big business to take operations abroad

• led to decreased government interference in the economy

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as __________.

• Progressives

• reformers

• muckrakers

• capitalists

Child labor continued even after the reforms of the early 1900s because ______________________

• greedy factory owners lied about workers' ages.

• poor families needed the income, however little.

• corruption made government monitoring useless.

• the courts established high child wage rates.

What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?

• Mexicans could cross the U.S. border with relative ease.

• Mexicans became a key part of the Southwest economy.

• Mexicans could occupy areas that once belonged to Mexico.

• Mexicans immigrated with their children and extended families.