Progressive Era

The Progressive Movement supported the idea that the federal government should-

• Reduce the number of farms
• Build an overseas empire
• Correct economic and social problems

• Reduce immigration

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

• pacifists who demonstrated against war

• Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

• Writers who exposed the evil in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are most closely associated with the idea that-

• Settlement houses should be built to help educate immigrants
• National Parks should be created by the federal government
• factories should be prohibited since they damage society
• suffrage should be granted to women

Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, and Frank Norris all shared a belief that-

• The public was unlikely to respond to calls for reform
• The government should follow a laissez-faire policy
• Reform was needed to control abuses of business
• Monopolies were necessary for business to survive

The Progressive Movement supported the idea that the federal government should-

• Reduce the number of farms
• Build an overseas empire
• Regulate big business
• Reduce immigration

Civil service reform in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was a reaction to which of the following issues?

• the dwindling influence of political machines
• the emergence of single-issue third parties
• the corrupt and inefficient distribution of government jobs by political machines
• the ignorance of voters who elected well-meaning but incompetent public officials

The interstate Commerce Act of 1887 and the populist movement of the 1890s were both reactions to-

• United States imperialism
• Economic depressions
• Unrestricted immigration
• The Abuses of industrialization

During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish-

• free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods
• settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor
• newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions
• laws that restricted certain immigrant groups

The initiative, the referendum, and the recall were adopted by several states during the Progressive Era as ways to-

• restrict the use of presidential vetoes
• promote the formation of trusts
• make government more democratic
• limit immigration

Which view of the secession crisis of 1860-1861 was held by most Southerners?

• Revolution against properly elected officials is never justified

• Since the Union was created by the states, they could leave at any time

• The Union was formed by the American people, and note by individual states

• Because of their economic connections with the North, succession would be disasterous