Ch.15 Assessment

Alice Paul was arrested after picketing the White House, an example of her attempts to

• start a women-only political party

• support Woodrow Wilson

• use protests to force suffrage

• use violence to force suffrage

What did progressives think needed to play a more active role in solving society's problems?

• big business

• social welfare organizations

• churches

• government

Theodore Roosevelt warned William Howard Taft that tariff reform would

• anger powerful business leaders

• anger progressives

• divide Republican Party

• increase spending

The Keating-Owen Act was passed in order to regulate

• child labor

• farm loans

• price discrimination

• railroad workdays

What law reduced the average tariff on imported goods to about 30 percent of the value of the goods?

• Payne-Aldrich Tariff

• Clayton Antitrust Act

• Keating-Owen Act

• Underwood Tariff

One provision of the Clayton Antitrust Act banned

• Child labor

• income tax

• price discrimination

• racial discrimination

In Northern Securities vs United States case, the Supreme Court ruled that Northern Securities

• violated the Clayton Antitrust Act

• violated the Sherman Antitrust Act

• would be supervised by the Department of Labor and Commerce

• would be supervised by the Interstate Commerce Comisssion

The Underwood Tariff Act included a provision for

• banning tying agreements

• levying an income tax

• negotiating tariffs with other nations

• starting a new national bank

The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to

• keep it under government control and not allow companies to use it

• keep it under government control, but allow its use for land development projects

• sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits

• sell it to private individuals, who would conserve it because it belongs to them

What were crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption called?

• muckrakers

• reformers

• efficiency progressives

• suffragists