Period 7 - Progressive Era APUSH MCQs

Which of the following best explains the large numbers of women in the given picture?

• The success of the Progressive movement

• A decline in the influence of corporations

• The decline of urban centers

• Industrial desires for cheap labor

Which of the following details best distinguishes the factory depicted in the given picture from one that existed before the Civil War?

• Its focus on consumer goods

• Its employment of women

• Its lack of industrial technology

• Its freedom from government oversight

What impact did factories like the one in the given picture have on women in the United States?

• Factories provided new economic opportunities for women.

• Factory wages impoverished women workers.

• Factory work led directly to women’s suffrage.

• Factories propelled women into public leadership.

The presence of factories such as this one would

• undermine the growth of the U.S. economy.

• cause the expansion of the nation’s agricultural sector.

• encourage immigration and internal migration to the nation’s cities.

• lead to calls for reforms of the nation’s economic system.

Which of the following best explains the response of reformers to the political conditions described in the excerpt?

• They began to support candidates of the Democratic Party.

• They scaled back their reform efforts at the local level.

• They called for the expansion of democracy.

• They offered alternate, utopian visions for society.

Which of the following methods did reformers, like Lincoln Steffens, use to accomplish their goals?

• Organizing labor unions to oppose business interests

• Seeking federal legislation to force change

• Calling for restricted immigration to reduce corruption

• Campaigning against further government intervention in the people’s lives

Which of the following best describes the cause of the problems that Steffens identifies, as seen by reformers like him?

• Economic and political inequality

• Reliance on professional experts for efficiency

• The economic instability of the American system

• The increasing integration of the United States into the global economy

The given excerpt is most clearly an example of which of the following trends?

• The consolidation of corporate power into trusts

• The growth of nativist and discriminatory political practices

• The expansion of the democratic process

• The rise of journalists cooperating with reformers to call for change

The nation’s labor force would be made increasingly diverse in the early twentieth century as a result of

• an influx of immigrants primarily from Western Europe.

• the migration of African Americans Northward in search of work.

• national support for the growth of labor unions.

• widespread condemnation of isolationist policies in the 1920s.

Which of the following developments most directly improved the lives of the workers described in this excerpt?

• The rapid growth of European immigration to the United States

• The success of preservationist policies

• Limited regulation of the financial system

• New manufacturing technologies