Chapter 26 Progressive Era

Question 1

What did the increase of industries do to the price of products?

Accepted Answer

It decreased the price of products.

Question 2

W.E.B. Du Bois helped found the NAACP in order to work for

Accepted Answer

equal rights for African Americans

Question 3

How did party bosses control the American political system?

Accepted Answer

They used a corrupt system of bribery.

Question 4

What were Carnegie and Rockefeller known as?

Accepted Answer

captains of industry

Question 5

What did the women who were fighting for the right to vote referred to as?

Accepted Answer

Suffragettes

Question 6

What law did Congress pass to enforce standards for food?

Accepted Answer

The Pure Food and Drug Act

Question 7

What did the “Wisconsin Idea” state?

Accepted Answer

people choose their leaders in primary elections

Question 8

Why did Mother Jones lead the “March of the Mill Children”?

Accepted Answer

to petition President Roosevelt to support child labor laws

Question 9

What did Carnegie do after he sold his steel company?

Accepted Answer

He retired and devoted his life to philanthropy.

Question 10

What did Muir believe should be done to wonders, like Yosemite, in the world?

Accepted Answer

they should be preserved in the natural state

Question 11

What did Andrew Carnegie mean when he said, “The man who dies rich dies disgraced”?

Accepted Answer

Rich people should use their wealth to help others.

Question 12

What happened when The Woman’s Party began holding silent vigils outside the White House?

Accepted Answer

Police began to arrest them for ridiculous reasons.

Question 13

Why did Roosevelt want to break up the trusts?

Accepted Answer

to make American business fair for all

Question 14

What is philanthropy?

Accepted Answer

a generosity to charities

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