Topic # 5 - Progressive Era

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

Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair 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

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

Jane Addams and Jacob Riis are best known as

• leaders of industry

• social reformers

• congressional leaders

• inventors

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

• free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods

• Hull House - settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor

• newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions

• laws that restricted certain immigrant groups

During which period in United States history were the amendments concerning the income tax, direct election of senators, Prohibition, and women's suffrage enacted?

• Reconstruction
• New Deal
• Progressive Era
• Gilded Age

In the early 1900s, the muckrakers provided a service to the American public by-

• encouraging states to resist federal government authority
• lobbying for less government regulation of business
• revealing abuses in government and industry
• calling for a strong military buildup

What act did The Jungle help establish?

• Pendleton Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Federal Reserve Act
• Dawes Act