Unit 06 Combined Spot Checks

These movements sought mostly different objectives in U.S. History. Choose the statements that describe either the Populist or the Progressive movement.

Groups:

(a) Populists

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(b) Progressives

• Free Silver Movement

• Urban Industrial

• Farmers Alliance

• Late 19th Century

• Rural Farmers

• Muckrakers

• Uptan Sinclair

• Early 20th Century

Voters submitting petitions for the recall of Seattle mayor Hiram Gill, December 1910.
Progressive-era reformers advocated the use of initiatives, referendums, and recall votes because they believed

• more Americans needed to be directly involved in the political process.

• small farmers and small businessmen were becoming too powerful.

• the spread of communism was threatening America's political and religious institutions.

• the "political machines" in rural America were dominating the legislative process.

The Supreme Court decision in Standard Oil Co. of NJ v U.S (1911) would have had the biggest impact on which form of business organization?

• companies run as monopolies

• providers of natural resources

• businesses who hired union workers

• businesses who fired workers belonging to unions

• 1862: born into slavery

• 1880s: teacher and writer in Memphis, Tennessee

• 1895: wrote The Red Record about lynchings in the South

• 1909: one of the founders of the NAACP
  
  Who is being described?

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Octavia E. Butler

This photograph by Jacob Riis (1889) reflects the conditions that would have been found in

• the West.

• the rural South.

• industrial areas.

• Indian Reservations.

The massive increase in total income tax revenue in this 12-year period was primarily because

• the Progressives were able to get the 16th Amendment ratified.

• tax rates were increased to help pay for the expenses incurred by World War I.

• the 18th Amendment required additional tax revenue to be created for the federal government.

• the addition of women to the electorate meant that tax increases were approved by referendum.

During the Progressive Era, some politicians were successful in getting initiatives and referendums added in many states. What was the overall effect of this?

• more people became directly involved in government

• the direct election of Senators became law

• women were soon given the right to vote in all states

• big businesses were broken up into smaller corporations

Ida Tarbell was one of the leading "muckrakers" of the Progressive era. She is best known for writing The History of the Standard Oil Company, which exposed the negative aspects of John D. Rockefeller's monopoly over the American oil industry.

Which legislation is most closely associated with the work of Ida Tarbell?

• the Dawes Act of 1887

• the Mann-Elkins Act of 1910

• the Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890

• the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906

The photograph shows a 1917 women's suffrage parade on Fifth Avenue in New York City. This picture would be MOST useful in a report about

• popular demonstrations by social reformers.

• urban planning in the Northeast.

• civil rights progress in the American South.

• the rise of nationalism in the twentieth century.

The "Square Deal"

• "Trust-busting"

• The United States Forest Service

• The Hepburn Act

With which "Progressive" president are these MOST closely related?

Responses

• Theodore Roosevelt
• The New Deal
• The Great Society
• The Fair Deal