Chapter 15, Lesson 3 Quiz

In the presidential election of 1912, South Dakota’s electoral votes went to __________?

• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Eugene V. Debs

Woodrow Wilson won the 1912 presidential election because Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft split the __________ Party.

• Republican

• Democratic

• Socialist

• Independent

Teddy Roosevelt’s 1912 political party was named the Progressive Party but his critics named it the “_________” Party because when asked about his health, Teddy said he was as fit as this animal.

• Bear

• Elephant

• Bull Moose

• Lion

The first federal income tax was tacked onto the _________ Act. The bill reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30% of the value of the goods, but it also provided for levying the first federal graduated income tax.

• Federal Reserve

• Clayton Anti-Trust

• Underwood Tariff

• Interstate Commerce

To help regulate monopolies and big business, Woodrow Wilson was able to get Congress to create the ____________.

• Children's Bureau

• Mining Bureau

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Reserve Act created _________ regional banks to be supervised by a Board of Governors, appointed by the president.

• 10

• 11

• 12

• 13

All of the following are functions of the Federal Reserve EXCEPT:

• The Federal Reserve controls the money supply and credit policies in the United States.

• The Federal Reserve raises and lowers the interest rates to member banks.

• The Federal Reserve buys and sells government bonds and other securities.

• The Federal Reserve regulates the operations of monopolies.

Today, the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is _________.

• Allan Greenspan

• Ben Bernanke

• Jerome Powell

• Janet Yellen

Two areas that progressives were not able to address or solve during this time were issues related to ________ and _______ discrimination.

• Ethnic and Social

• Economic and Educational

• Political and Religious

• Racial and Religious

The NAACP was founded in 1909. It stands for __________________.

• National American Auto Care Prevention

• National Arithmetic and Algebraic Computations Program

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• National Association for the Aged and Atrophic Concerns Program