Unit 7 SG

1.The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to
2.The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the
3.Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the
target of his criticism.
A. Thorstein Veblen
1. bloated trusts
B. Jack London
2. slum conditions
C. Jacob Riis
3. conspicuous consu

D. Henry Demarest Lloyd

4. destruction of natur
4.Progressivism
5.Female progressives often justified their reformist political
activities on the basis of
6.Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the
target of his or her expos.
A. David G. Phillips
1. the United Sta
B. Ida Tarbell
2. the Standard O
C. Lincoln Steffens
3. city governm
D. Ray Stannard Baker
4. the condition
7.Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of
the Cities,
8.The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the
progressive reform movement because they
9.Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the
progressive attack on social ills was to
10.The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of
liquor was
11.Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the
12.Political progressivism
13.According to progressives, the cure for all of American
democracy's ills was
14.To regain the power that the people had lost to the interests,
progressives advocated all of the following except
15.All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives
except
16.The progressive movement was instrumental in getting the
Seventeenth amendment added to the Constitution, which
provided for _______________
17.The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial
centers of female progressive activity because they
18.Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by
women in the progressive movement?
19.In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle
promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis
Brandeis that
20.The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led
many states to pass
21.The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for
progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in
its ruling
22.The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government
23.Progressive reform at the level of city government seemed to
indicate that the progressives' highest priority was
24.While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform
proposals as the
25.As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all
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of the following except

26.Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite
coal mines by
27.One unusual and significant characteristic of the anthracite coal
strike in 1902 was that
28.The Elkins and Hepburn acts dealt with the subject of
29.Teddy Roosevelt believed that trusts
30.The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to
31.President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should
adopt a policy of _______________ trusts.
32.Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was especially
facilitated by the publication of
33.When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to
focus attention on the
34.Of the following legislation aimed at resource conservation, the
only one associated with Roosevelt's presidency was the
35.According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most enduring
achievement may have been
36.The idea of multiple-use resource management included all of
the following practices except
37.Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in
1904 when he
38.The panic of 1907 stimulated reform in _______________ policy.
39.Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as
40.While president, Theodore Roosevelt
41.During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following
except
42.As president, William Howard Taft
43.President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed
44.The Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed
down in a case involving
45.Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912
because
46.Before he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson had
been
47.As governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson established a
record as
48.In 1912, Woodrow Wilson ran for the presidency on a Democratic
platform that included all of the following except a call for
49.When Jane Addams placed Teddy Roosevelt's name in
nomination for the presidency in 1912, it
50.Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism
51.Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom
52.The 1912 presidential election was notable because
53.Match each 1912 presidential candidate below with his political
party.
A. Woodrow Wilson
1. Socialist
B. Theodore Roosevelt
2. Democratic
C. William Howard Taft
3. Republican
D. Eugene V. Debs
4. Progressive
54.According to the text, the runaway philosophical winner in the
1912 election was
55.In 1912 Woodrow Wilson became the first __________ elected to
the presidency since the Civil War.
56.Woodrow Wilson was most comfortable surrounded by

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57.Woodrow Wilson's attitude toward the masses can best be

described as
58.Woodrow Wilson's political philosophy included all of the
following except
59.As a politician, Woodrow Wilson was
60.Congress passed the Underwood Tariff because
61.In 1913, Woodrow Wilson broke with a custom dating back to
Jefferson's day when he
62.When Woodrow Wilson became president in 1912, the most
serious shortcoming in the country's financial structure was that
the
63.When Congress passed the Underwood Tariff Bill in 1913, it
intended the legislation to
64.The Sixteenth Amendment provided for
65.The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial
measure of public control over the American banking system
through the final authority given to the
66.The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the
authority to
67.The Clayton AntiTrust Act
68.Because of the benefits that it conferred on labor, Samuel
Gompers called the _______________ labor's Magna Charta.
69.The first Jew to sit on the United States Supreme Court,
appointed by Woodrow Wilson, was
70.Woodrow Wilson showed the limits of his progressivism by
71.Woodrow Wilson's early efforts to conduct an antiimperialist U.
S. foreign policy were first undermined when he
72.Which term best characterizes Woodrow Wilson's approach to
American foreign policy diplomacy?
73.President Woodrow Wilson refused to intervene in the affairs of
Mexico until
74.Before his first term ended, Woodrow Wilson had militarily
intervened in or purchased all of the following countries except
75.Woodrow Wilson's administration refused to extend formal
diplomatic recognition to the government in Mexico headed by
76.As World War I began in Europe, the alliance system placed
Germany and AustriaHungary as leaders of the
_______________, while Russia and France were among the
_______________.
77.From 1914 to 1916, trade between the United States and Britain
78.With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of
Americans
79.One primary effect of World War I on the United States was that it
80.President Wilson insisted that he would hold _______________
to strict accountability for _______________.
81.German submarines began sinking unarmed and unresisting
merchant and passenger ships without warning
82.Which of the following American passenger liners was sunk by
German submarines?
83.The Progressive Bull Moose party died when
84.In the Sussex pledge, Germany promised
85.When Woodrow Wilson won reelection in 1916, he received
strong support from the
86.President Wilson broke diplomatic relations with Germany when
87.The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement
between

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88.The United States declared war on Germany

89.President Woodrow Wilson persuaded the American people to
enter World War I by
90.President Wilson viewed America's entry into World War I as an
opportunity for the United States to
91.Which one of the following was not among Wilson's Fourteen
Points upon which he based America's idealistic foreign policy in
World War I?
92.The major problem for George Creel and his Committee on
Public Information was that
93.Match each civilian administrator below with the World War I
mobilization agency that he directed.
A. George Creel
1. War Industrie
B. Herbert Hoover
2. Committee on
C. Bernard Baruch
3. Food Admini

D. William Howard Taft

4. National War
94.When the United States entered World War I, it was
95.During World I, civil liberties in America were
96.Two constitutional amendments adopted in part because of
wartime influences were the Eighteenth, which dealt with
_______________, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was
_______________.
97.As a result of their work supporting the war effort, women
98.During World War I, the government's treatment of labor could be
best described as
99.The two groups who suffered most from the violaton of civil
liberties during World War I were
100.Grievances of labor during and shortly after World War I include
all of the following except
101.The 1919 steel strike resulted in
102.The movement of tens of thousands of Southern blacks north
during WWI resulted in
103.Most wartime mobilization agencies relied on _______________
to prepare the economy for war.
104.Most of the money raised to finance World War I came from
105.In an effort to make economic mobilization more efficient during
World War I, the federal government took over and operated
106.The United States used all of the following methods to support
the war effort except
107.The World War I military draft
108.When the United States entered the war in 1917, most Americans
did not believe that
109.Those who protested conscription during World War I did so
because
110.During World War I, American troops fought in all of the
following countries except
111.The two major battles of World War I in which United States
forces engaged were
112.Russia's withdrawal from World War I in 1918 resulted in
113.The supreme military commander of American forces during
World War I was
114.The Second Battle of the Marne was significant because it
115.As a condition of ending World War I, Woodrow Wilson
demanded that
116.The United States' main contributions to the Allied victory in

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World War I included all of the following except

117.The Germans were heavily demoralized by
118.The chief difference between Woodrow Wilson and the
parliamentary statesmen at the Paris peace table was that Wilson
119.Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference
was to
120.At the Paris Peace Conference, Wilson sought all of the following
goals except
121.Opposition to the League of Nations by many United States
Senators during the Paris Peace Conference
122.After the Treaty of Versailles had been signed, Woodrow Wilson
123.In the United States, the most controversial aspect of the Treaty of
Versailles was
124.The initial Republican strategy regarding the Treaty of Versailles
was to
125.Senate opponents of the League of Nations as proposed in the
Treaty of Versailles argued that it
126.In Congress, the most reliable support for Wilson's position on the
League of Nations came from
127.The Senate likely would have accepted American participation in
the League of Nations if Wilson had
128.Who was finally most responsible for the Senate defeat of the
Treaty of Versailles?
129.Woodrow Wilson's call for a solemn referendum in 1920
referred to
130.Republican isolationists successfully turned Warren Harding's
1920 presidential victory into a
131.The major weakness of the League of Nations was that it
132.The red scare of 19191920 was provoked by
133.Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s did all of
the following except
134.Businesspeople used the red scare to
135.The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red
scare was
136.The post-World War I Ku Klux Klan advocated all of the
following except
137.The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was a reaction against
138.Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result
of
139.Cultural pluralists like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally
advocated that
140.The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920s
discriminated directly against
141.One of the primary obstacles to working class solidarity and
organization in America was
142.Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from
143.The religion of almost all Polish immigrants to America was
144.Many Polish peasants learned about America from all of the
following sources except
145.Most Americans assumed that prohibition
146.The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in
the 1920s was
147.John Dewey can rightly be called the father of
____________________.
148.According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to
149.Of the following, the one least related to the other four is

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150.The trial of John Scopes in 1925 centered on the issue of

151.After the Scopes Monkey Trial,
152.All of the following helped to make the prosperity of the 1920s
possible except
153.The main problem faced by American manufacturers in the 1920s
involved
154.Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, expressed great
admiration for Jesus Christ because Barton
155.The prosperity that developed in the 1920s
156.Among the major figures promoted by mass media image makers
and the new sports industry in the 1920s were
157.Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry was
158.Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best
known for his
159.Which of the following was not among the industries that
prospered mightily with widespread use of the automobile?
160.The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following except
161.Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an
American hero especially because
162.The first talkie motion picture was
163.With the advent of radio and motion pictures,
164.Automobiles, radios, and motion pictures
165.The 1920 census revealed that for the first time most
166.Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
167.Job opportunities for women in the 1920s
168.To justify their new sexual frankness, many Americans pointed to
169.Jazz music was developed by
170.Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement
Association, is known for all of the following except
171.Match each literary figure below with the correct work.
A. Ernest Hemingway
1. The Sun Also
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Main Street
C. Sinclair Lewis
3. The Sound an

D. William Faulkner
4. The Great Ga
172.Buying stock on margin meant
173.Which of the following was not among prominent African
American cultural figures of the 1920s?
174.As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the tax
burden on the
175.Warren G. Harding's weaknesses as president included all of the
following except a(n)
176.Match each member of President Harding's cabinet below with
his major area of responsibility.
A. Charles Evans Hughes
1. taxes and tari
B. Andrew Mellon
2. naval oil rese
C. Herbert Hoover
3. naval arms lim

D. Albert Fall
4. foreign trade
D. Harry Daugherty
5. justice and law
177.Which one of the following members of President Harding's
cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt?
178.Republican economic policies under Warren G. Harding
179.During the 1920s, the Supreme Court
180._______________ was (were) adversely affected by the
demobilization policies adopted by the federal government at the

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end of World War I.

181.The Supreme Court cases of Muller and Adkins centered on
182.The nonbusiness group that realized the most significant, lasting
gains from World War I was
183.One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of
isolationism involved in the Middle East, where the United States
sought to
184.Warren G. Harding was willing to seize the initiative on the issue
of international disarmament because
185.The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
186.In the 1920s the Fordney-McCumber Tariff __________ tariff
rates and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff __________ tariff rates, so
that by 1930 the tariff rates had been substantially __________
from the opening of the decade.
187.Which of the following was not a consequence of the American
policy of raising tariffs sky-high in the 1920s?
188.The Teapot Dome scandal involved the corrupt mishandling of
189.The major political scandal of Harding's administration resulted
in the conviction and imprisonment of his secretary of
190.Which of the following descriptive attributes is least
characteristic of President Coolidge?
191.During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely
by the interests and values of
192.After the initial shock of the Harding scandals, many Americans
reacted by
193.One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was
194.In the mid-1920s President Coolidge twice refused to sign
legislation proposing to
195.The intended beneficiaries of the McNary-Haugen Bill were
__________; the intended beneficiaries of the Norris-LaGuardia
Act were __________.
196.Which of the following splits did not affect the Democratic party
in 1924?
197.Senator Robert La Follette's Progressive party advocated all of the
following except
198.In 1924 the Democratic party convention failed by a single vote
to adopt a resolution condemning
199.The Progressive party did not do well in the 1924 election
because
200.In the early 1920s, one glaring exception to America's general
indifference to the outside world was its
201.America's European allies argued that they should not have to
repay loans that the United States made to them during World War
I because
202.As a result of America's insistence that its Allies' war debts be
repaid in full,
203.America's major foreign-policy problem in the 1920s was
addressed by the Dawes Plan, which
204.The most colorful presidential candidate of the 1920s was
205.All of the following were political liabilities for Alfred E. Smith
except his
206.One of Herbert Hoover's chief strengths as a presidential
candidate was his
207.When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover
208.The Federal Farm Board, created by the Agricultural Marketing
Act, lent money to farmers primarily to help them to

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209.As a result of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930,

210.In America, the Great Depression caused
211.President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression
could be ended by doing all of the following except
212.President Hoover's approach to the Great Depression was to
213.The alphabetical agency set up under Hoover's administration
to provide aid to business and local governments was the
214.The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to
215.The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., in
1932 to demand
216.President Hoover's public image was severely damaged by his
217.In response to the League of Nations' investigation into Japan's
invasion and occupation of Manchuria,
218.The 1932 Stimson doctrine

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