EOC OP3 The 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