The Progressive Movement

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

• protecting social welfare.
• promoting business monopolies.
• creating economic reform.
• fostering efficiency in the workplace.

Muckrakers were

• politicians.
• conservationists.
• suffragists.
• journalists.

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as

• a recall.
• an initiative.
• a referendum.
• an amendment.

Who gained most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

• party bosses
• ordinary citizens
• state legislators
• industrial leaders

In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as

• servants.
• teachers.
• clerks.
• telephone operators.

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• dangers faced by coal miners.
• corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company.
• unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry.
• illegal deals between special interests and the government.

The first person to use the presidency as a "bully pulpit" was

• William H. Taft.
• Theodore Roosevelt.
• Woodrow Wilson.
• William McKinley.

What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?

• It delayed action as attention turned to the war effort.
• It had little effect.
• It caused a split within the NAWSA.
• It hastened passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.

The law that required truthful labels was the

• Pure Food and Drug Act.
• Meat Inspection Act.
• Sherman Antitrust Act.
• Interstate Commerce Act.

Which strategy was NOT employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?

• They called for female workers to strike.
• They advocated a constitutional amendment.
• They tested the Fourteenth Amendment in court.
• They convinced state legislatures to grant women the right to vote.