Progressive Review
Dangerous working conditions in the meat packing industry were exposed in what famous novel?
a. The Crucible.
c. The Jungle Book
b. The Jungle
d. The Scarlet Letter
Which women had the greatest impact on women’s rights?
a.
b.
Anthony & Stanton
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b. Jane Adams
d. Abigail Adams
What did the Progressive Believe?
a. Big business was acceptable
c. Government should stop all big business
b. Government should protect foreign countries
d. Gov’t should be more acceptable to the people
What amendment granted women’s suffrage?
a. 17th Amendment
c. 19th Amendment
b. 16th Amendment
d. 18th Amendment
Who would have exposed political and business corruption through the media and Roosevelt did not care for?
a. muckrakers
c. populist
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b. Progressives
d. Robber Barons
What was the purpose of giving voters more direct say in the government?
a. To end corruption
c. To expand corruption
b. To provide political machines more power
d. To stop having a president
What was one thing the Clayton Antitrust Act did NOT do?
a. Further the Sherman Antitrust Act
c. Break trusts apart
b. Ban labor unions
d. Make trust larger
What two amendments provided suffrage to African Americans and women?
a. 18th & 14th
c. 15th & 19th
b. 19th & 16th
d. 17th & 15th
What is municipal government & provide an example of their restrictions…
a. state legislature: restricting state powers
c. City Government restricting political restricting
b. U.S. Senate: Electing state senators
d. The President: impeachment
Providing refuge from congestion of the city would be an example of what reform?
a. parks
c. The Square Deal
b. tenement houses
d. Federal Reserve Act
Who are the Progressive Presidents?
a. Washington, Jefferson, Wilson
c. Roosevelt, Taft, Washington
b. Madison, Taft, Wilson
d. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson
Referendum, direct primary, and recall were all created for what purpose?
a. to grant the gov’t more power
c. to provide the people more power in state & local gov’t
b. to grant political machines more power
d. to make the people think they had power in gov’t
How did farmers, industrialist & business leaders view natural resources vs. conservationist?
a. as raw materials to make a profit from
b. as important resources to be protected
c. as the end to their profits
d. a way for the gov’t to make money
The 17th Amendment does what?
a. creates an income tax
c. prohibits alcohol
b. grants women suffrage
d. provides for direct election of senator
What reform allows citizens to remove officials from offices before the next election?
a. recall
c. referendum
b. initiative
d. direct primary
What is conservationism?
a. protecting big business
c. protecting the military
b. protecting land
d. protecting the oil business
Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote allowed whom to win president?
a. Wilson
c. Jefferson
b. Taft
d. McKinley
What did the Republican Party protest President Taft’s handling of?
a. 16th Amendment
c. Ballinger-Pinchot Affair
b. prohibition
d. Clayton Antitrust Act
The Progressive’s goal was to?
a. have a hands off approach
c. create big government
b. help big business
d. create reform & provide more power to the people in gov’t