progressive era

The Progressive presidents are

• Franklin Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Taft

• Theodore Roosevelt, Taft and Wilson

• Taft, Wilson and Kennedy

• Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and McKinley

Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?

• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

In the early 1900s, which group most often supported the views of the Populist Movement

• Factory owners
• Nativists
• Labor Unions
• Farmers

What federal agency was established in 1916 by Congress to manage national historic sites?

• National Park Service
• Department of the Interior
• Bureau of Outdoor Recreation 
• Civilian Conservation Corps