DE Chapter 21 Practice Quiz

(How did Theordore Roosevelt advance the progressive agenda) The 1904 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine:

• guaranteed that the United States never had to send troops to Latin American nations.

• reversed the policy of the Monroe Doctrine.

• established the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere.

• relaxed the doctrine's restrictions on European nations.

(What were the key tenets of progressive theory) Which state earned the title "laboratory of democracy" around 1900?

• California

• Wisconsin

• Ohio

• • Illinois

(How did grassroots progressives attack the problems of urban industrial America) Which statement best describes the social gospel movement of the late nineteenth century?

• It urged the distribution of free Bibles in cities.

• It called for the reform of both individuals and society.

• It argued that charity begins at home.

• It called for corporate funds to build churches throughout the nation.

(How did Theordore Roosevelt advance the progressive agenda) Which statement describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century?

• Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use.

• Preservationists secured Roosevelt's support, while conservationists did not.

• Conservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while preservationists advocated its efficient use.

• Preservationists openly supported Roosevelt's environmental policies, while conservationists did not.

(How did Theordore Roosevelt advance the progressive agenda) How did President Theodore Roosevelt influence land conservation during his administration?

• • He was unable to increase the amount of acreage saved owing to Congress's inaction.

• He reduced the amount of conserved land by nearly half.

• He expanded the acreage of government reserves nearly tenfold.

• He more than quadrupled the acreage of government reserves.

(How did Theorodre Roosevelt advance the progressive agenda) To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States:

• submitted its cause to international arbitration.

• negotiated a treaty and paid a fair price for the property.

• declared war with Colombia, which controlled the isthmus at the time.

• backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.

(How did grassroots progressives attack the problems of urban industrial America) Why did progressives at the turn of the twentieth century launch the social purity movement?

• to clean up corrupt urban politics

• to attack prostitution and other vices

• to regulate the food industry

• to advocate the use of birth control among immigrants

(How did Theodore Roosevelt advance the progressive agenda) President Theodore Roosevelt inherited the Open Door Policy, which was designed to:

• facilitate the entry of Asian immigrants to the United States.

• ensure American commercial entry into China.

• institute free trade with all capitalist nations of the world.

• lift all U.S. restrictions on immigration.

(What were the key tenets of progressive theory) Who wrote Drift and Mastery (1914) and called for skilled "technocrats" to use scientific innovations to control social change?

• Thomas Loftin Johnson

• Lester Frank Ward

• Walter Lippmann

• Robert M. La Follette

(How did grassroots progressives attack the problems of urban industrial America) The 1909 strike at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Company demonstrated that:

• women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines.

• class divisions among workers could help them organize more effectively.

• • middle-class women would abandon working-class women when economic conditions deteriorated.

• • .

  • women could not organize successfully on a large scale.