AP History Chapter 28 and 29

1.

4 points

Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he

got into a quarrel with his popular secretary of war, William Taft

refused to do anything in response to the Roosevelt Panic

supported the Federal Reserve Act

began to reduce his trust-busting activity

announced that he would be a candidate for a third term as president

2.

4 points

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

big-stick diplomacy

the Good Neighbor policy

the Open Door policy

sphere-of-influence diplomacy

dollar diplomacy

3.

4 points

The religious movement that was closely liinked to progressivism was

the missionary movement

conservative evangelicalism

the Catholic Action movement

the Social Gospel

4.

4 points

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

using the military to force the miners back to work

passing legislation making the miners' union illegal

helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers.

appealing to mine owners' and workers' sense of the public interest.

threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

5.

4 points

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom

supported federal government ownership of railroads and utilities

favored big business with accompanying federal regulation

favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the busting of monopolies

was focused around working-class issues like unions and minimum-wage laws

opposed banking and tariff reform

6.

4 points

Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism

pinned its economic faith on competition and the breakup of large monopolies

opposed the growth of labor unions

sought to raise tariffs to protect American industry

supported a broad program of social welfare and government regulation of business

favored state rather than federal government activism

7.

4 points

German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting merchant and passenger ships without warning

in an effort to keep the United States out of the war

in retaliation for the British naval blockade of Germany

because international law now allowed this new styl of warfare.

when the United States entered the war

8.

4 points

The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to

fragment the political power of big business

prove the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States.

halt the trend toward combination and integration in business

establish himself as a bigger trustbuster than William Howard Taft.

inspire confidence in small business owners

9.

4 points

Besides lowering tariff rates, the Underwood Tariff Act reflected Wilson's progressive goals by

establishing the first graduated federal income tax

creating an optional retirement system for workers

guaranteeing equall treatment for men and women in employment

using the tariff only for revenue and not to protect American industry from competition.

providing protection for Ameircan farmers against subsidized foreign crop imports.

10.

4 points

The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to

preserve clean water in the mountain West.

open new federal lands to sustainable forestry

reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands

provide protection for fragile western wilderness areas.

restore abandoned toxic mining sites for agricultural use.

11.

4 points

The 1912 presidential election was notable because

the Democratic party had split

it was the first time women had the right to vote

it gave voters a clear choice of political and economic philosophies

the fourth party Socialists had a serious chance to win

personalities were the only issue of the campaign

12.

4 points

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

explain the causes of social ills.

make the public aware of social problems.

devise solutions to society's problems.

link up with movements for social justice

13.

4 points

The central provisions of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act

included trade unions under the antimonopoly provisions of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.

delcared that no single corporation coulc control more than 75 percent of a given industry

established minimum wage rates for goods produced in interstate commerce

outlawed corporate interlocking directorates and price discrimination against different purchases.

exempted farm cooperatives from antitrust action

14.

4 points

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities"

exposed the deplorable conditions of blacks in urban areas.

laid bare insider trading practices on the stock market.

uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery

unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government

15.

4 points

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

Hull House

the General Federation of Women's Clubs

the Progressive Party

the Women's Christian Temperance Union

16.

4 points

The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution permitted Congress to enact

a personal income tax

women's suffrage

the direct election of senators

the abolition of child labor

prohibition of alcohol

17.

4 points

Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by

vetoing the Federal Farm Loan Act

opposing workingmen's compensation

refusing to appoint the Jewish Louis D. Brandeis to the Federal Trade Commission

accelerating the segregation of blacks in the federal bureaucracy.

opposing the entry of women into politics

18.

4 points

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of

Jack London's "The Call of the Wild"

Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"

Henry Demarest Lloyd's "Wealth Against Commonwealth"

Jacob Riis"s "How the Other Half Lives

Theodore Dreiser's "The Titan"

19.

4 points

While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the

Fair Deal

Square Deal

Big Deal

Big Stick

New Deal

20.

4 points

To regain the power that the people had lost to the interests, progressives advocated all of the following except

initiative

referendum

recall

socialism

direct election of U.S. senators

21.

4 points

Which of the following was NOT among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement?

Ending special regulations governing women in the workplace.

Ensuring that food products were healthy and safe

Attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements

Preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops

Creating child care subsidies for working mothers with preschool children.

22.

4 points

As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was

unskilled as a public speaker

a man with the common touch

willing to compromise with his opponents

inflexible and stubborn

a showman, like Teddy Roosevelt

23.

4 points

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans

supported the Central Powers

favored entering the war in support of the Allies

earnestly hoped to stay out of the war

wanted to form a military alliance of neutral nations.

24.

4 points

Progressivism

was closely tied to the feminist movement and wmen's causes.

offered little to the growing women's movement.

saw racial issues as more important than women's issues.

reflectedd the views of working-class women.

25.

4 points

Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for president in 1912 because

the Democratic party was split.

Senator Robert LaFollette encouraged him to do so.

Taft decided not to run for a second term.

William H. Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies

Woodrow Wilson appeared to be a very strong Democratic candidate