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WorksheetsChapter 6 Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 2hrs 5mins
City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called _____.
political machines.
political mobs.
voting leagues.
voting drives.
William Howard Taft’s main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he _____.
claimed more power for his presidency than the Constitution allowed.
opposed big business regulation.
hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business.
encouraged the formation of monopolies.
Theodore Roosevelt’s idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and business people was called _____.
the Great Society.
the Fair Play Accord.
the Square Deal.
the New Way.
Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought _____.
women voters would support minimum wage and child labor laws.
women should focus on the prohibition of alcohol.
women voters would support government anti-corruption efforts.
only married women should have a voice in government.
Politicians best confronted corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age by _____.
increasing security at the polls.
passing a law that established a new system for granting federal jobs.
recruiting honest, reform-minded candidates to run for office.
identifying it as a partisan problem.
Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly?
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Which statement best describes the result of workplace laws passed during the Progressive movement?
increased trust between labor and big business.
eased reformers’ minds but were not always enforced.
caused big business to take operations abroad.
led to decreased government interference in the economy.
Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as _____.
Progressives.
reformers.
muckrakers.
capitalists.
Child labor continued even after the reforms of the early 1900s because _____.
greedy factory owners lied about workers’ ages.
poor families needed the income, however little.
corruption made government monitoring useless.
the courts established high child wage rates.
What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?
Mexicans could cross the U.S. border with relative ease
Mexicans became a key part of the Southwest economy.
Mexicans could occupy areas that once belonged to Mexico.
Mexicans immigrated with their children and extended families.
Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that government had proposed or passed?
the recall
direct primary
the initiative
the referendum
Based on the information presented, which of these conclusions can be drawn?
Roosevelt was the incumbent candidate, fighting to keep a seat he already held
Taft spent far less money on his campaign than the other candidates.
It is possible for a state to split its electoral votes rather than give them all to one candidate.
It is impossible for a candidate from a third party to beat a Democrat or a Republican.
In its first decade, the _____ brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses that had been used to prevent African Americans in the South from voting.
NAACP
National Urban League
During the Gilded Age, American reformers called for an end to _____, the practice of giving government jobs to supporters
after a candidate wins an election.
civil service
the spoils system
_____ founded the National Woman’s Party (NWP).
Alice Paul
Julia Ward Howe
_____'s reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely.
William Jennings Bryan
William Howard Taft
A union member might have claimed that _____ was unfair because its emphasis on competition caused managers to consider profits more important than safe working conditions
capitalism
socialism
The _____ Amendment helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to elect senators.
Seventeenth
Eighteenth
To help the conservation movement, Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill requiring manufacturers to limit the use of fossil fuels.
True
False
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to passage of laws improving factory safety.
True
False
A major aim of the Society of American Indians was to preserve Native Americans’ traditional culture.
True
False
Progressive reforms improved education for medical professionals.
True
False
A procedure called an initiative allows voters to propose new laws by using petitions.
True
False
Workers’ compensation laws prohibited (stopped) companies from paying wages to employees injured on the job.
True
False
In the fight against discrimination, Ida B. Wells drew attention to the lynching of African Americans.
True
False
