EOC REVIEW/ PROGRESSIVE ERA

Which progressive reform allows citizens of a state to propose and pass a law without involving their state legislature?

• initiative

• recall

  election

• referendum

• secret

  ballot

Which

of these progressive reforms was designed to give voters more power to

choose candidates for public office?

• direct

  primary

• political

  convention

• recall

  election

• caucus

Upton

Sinclair, author of The Jungle,

exposed which of the following

• poor

  living conditions of the Japanese in the internment camps

• pollution

  in the rivers of the western United States

• graft

  collected by politicians at the turn of the century

• unsanitary

  conditions of Chicago meat-packing plants

What

was the purpose of the Pendleton Act?

• to

  require the use of secret ballots

• to

  institute the federal income tax

• to

  reform the civil service system

• to

  allow the direct election of senators

Which

of the following progressive reforms was enacted by a constitutional

amendment?

• women’s

  suffrage

• consumer

  protection

• regulation

  of monopolies

• conservation

  of the environment

Why did President Wilson establish the Federal Reserve System?

• to

  help the federal government keep the budget balanced

• to

  give trusts more opportunities to expand their businesses

• to

  create banks that could collect the new federal income tax

• to

  regulate the money supply and prevent future economic panics

The

Progressive movement of 1890-1920 is BEST described as

• a

  broad-based reform movement that tried to reduce the abuses that had come

  with modernization and industrialization

• a

  loose coalition of groups primarily dedicated to passing a constitutional

  amendment prohibiting the consumption of alcohol

• an

  anti-tariff movement led by a federation of business owners and

  manufacturers who wanted to promote trade abroad

• a

  grass-roots movement that attempted to gather support for the

  establishment of an international organization such as the League of

  Nations

Lincoln

Steffens and Jane Addams are best known for

• promoting

  the interests of organized labor

• leading

  political movements on behalf of the Populist Party

• fighting

  for temperance and Prohibition

• attempting

  to ease the problems of the urban poor

A

primary function of the Federal Reserve System is to

• prevent

  abuses in stock market trading

• insure

  savings account deposits in member banks

• preserve

  a competition in business

• provide

  a stable supply of money and credit

Which

action was taken by President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration?

• setting

  aside land for national forests and water projects

• using

  Federal troops to break illegal strikes

• refusing

  to intervene in Latin American affairs

• forcing

  Southern States to eliminate Jim Crow laws