APUSH Chapter 18 Quiz

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:

• was the worst fire in U.S. history.

• led to much-needed safety legislation.

• destroyed the business, but there were no casualties.

• resulted in laws that banned female migrant labor in New York.

The Progressive movement drew its strength from:

• big business.

• farmers.

• middle-class reformers.

• military leaders.

Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the injustices of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:

• yellow journalists

• freelancers

• trustees

• muckrakers

Writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act.

• Theodore Dreiser

• Ida Tarbell

• Lincoln Steffens

• Upton Sinclair

Founder and leader of the American Socialist Party.

• Eugene V. Debs

• Thomas Nast

• Horace Greeley

• Henry Ward Beecher

Margaret Sanger was most notably an advocate for:

• birth control reform

• prison reform

• public education

• corporate reform

All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

• direct election of senators

• literacy tests

• women's suffrage

• primary elections for party candidates

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court:

• refused to limit work hours for male bakers.

• argued that women were too weak to work long hours.

• gave labor the right to strike.

• outlawed child labor for children under the age of sixteen.

Who was NOT a candidate in the 1912 presidential election?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• Eugene Debs

• William Jennings Bryan

Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J. P. Morgan’s Northern Securities Company?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Samuel Gompers

• Woodrow Wilson

• Warren G. Harding