Unit 3 Progressive Era Test Review

Which president wanted to regulate 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 major issues 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 Lincoln Steffens 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

Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, David Graham Phillips, and Jacob Riis are best known as

• leaders of industry

• muckrakers

• 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

• 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 and give the citizens more say in the government

• limit immigration

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