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The Progressives/Populism Quiz Review
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1
What was an important effect of the invention of the light bulb?
Factories could extend working hours
Factories could decrease working hours
2
Progressivism is a movement which began in...
the rural areas of the U.S.
the urban areas of the U.S.
3
During the late 19th century, most immigrants to the US found work as ______.
Factory/sweatshop workers
Factory owners
4
Laissez-faire capitalism relies on _________ to regulate prices and wages.
Government
Supply & Demand
5
What amendment prohibits the making, transportation, & selling of Alcohol?
16th Amendment
19th Amendment
17th Amendment
18th Amendment
6
The Knights of Labor & the AFL developed in response to the increased need to protect worker interests.
True
False
7
The Transcontinental RR allowed for all of the following EXCEPT:
Westward movement
Increased markets for businesses
Greater mobility
Encouraged greater use of canal system.
8
What amendment allows citizens to vote directly for their Senators?
17th Amendment
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
9
James Garfield's assassination on July 2, 1881 was committed by....
Charles Guiteau
John Wilkes Booth
10
Wealthy Americans are responsible for using their great fortunes to further social progress.
Bruce Banner Gospel
Gospel of Wealth
11
What is
JOHN ROEBLING
famous for designing?
Empire State Building
Brooklyn Bridge
12
What is the purpose of "Initiative"?
Establishes a state-wide dictatorship!!
Gives voters to power to petition state legislatures for desired laws!!
13
With which of the following issues were Populist most concerned?
R.R. rates & backing money with silver
Dangerous working conditions of factories
14
What Supreme Court Case is going to establish
"separate but equal"
?
Plessey vs. Ferguson (1896)
U.S. vs. Charles Schenck (1919)
15
The
Pendleton Civil Service Act
was designed to lower political corruption by....
forcing politicians to hire friends
requiring a college degree & passing a test
16
Which of the following beast represents T.R.'s protecting "Consumers"
Pure Food & Drug Act (1906)!!
National Parks!!
17
Who was the most notorious political boss?
Jacob Riis
William Tweed
Francis Perkins
18
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
is credited with invented the _________________.
Telegraph
Telephone
Light bulb
19
As farm production increased the supply of food...
Prices began to rise
Prices began to drop
20
This legislation that restricted immigration for 10 years from a certain group into the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
Irish Exclusion Act
21
Which law expanded competition & eliminated trusts and monopolies?
Anti-Laissez-Faire Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
22
Which of the following allows voters to decide on legislation introduced by popular initiative?
Voters are not allowed to decide
Referendum
23
The BESSEMER PROCESS increased production, yielded better quality, & lowered the price of _________________.
Timber
Steel
24
Tammany Hall was also known as....
Bat Cave
Fortress of Solitude
the Hall of Justice
Tammany Ring
25
Changing names, cutting hair, adopting Christianity, & learning English pushed on immigrants & Native American.
Immigration
Assimilation
26
All of the following describes a Captain of Industry EXCEPT:
Provides Safer working coditions
Philanthropy
Pays a reasonable wage
Enjoys the efficiency of child labor
27
The
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
was designed to do which of the following?
Outlaw Trusts & Monopolies!!
Support the growth of monopolies!!
28
Controlling all aspects of the creation of a product is called a...
Vertical Integration (a type of monopoly)
Horizontal Integration (a type of monopoly)
29
Thomas Nast was a....
Baseball player
Political Boss
Political Cartoonist
New York Governor
30
Which of the following prohibited Chinese from immigrating to the U.S. for 10 years?
Keep America Boring Act (1875)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
31
Elisha Otis designed a "safety elevator, " allowing for safe verticle transportation in tall buildings.
False
True
32
By the 1890's, a new political party emerged. This party was made up largely of farmers and workers.
Progressive Party
Populist Party
33
What amendment introduces a Progressive Income Tax?
19th Amendment
16th Amendment
18th Amendment
17th Amendment
34
What does "Recall" allow voters to do?
Remove an elected official
Improve a person's memory
35
A Trust is a group of factories/companies...
competing against each other in a market.
joining together to control a market.
36
Which of the following best represents T.R.'s controlling "Corporations"?
Enforcing Laissez-Faire
Enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act
37
All of the following describes a Robber Baron EXCEPT:
Pays workers low wages
Promotes & enjoys child labor
Philanthropy
Provides dangerous working conditions
38
Which of the following best represents T.R.'s "Conservation"?
National Parks!!
Anti-Trust Laws!!
39
Who founded Hull House, a Settlement House opened in 1889 in Chicago to help working class women?
Morticia Addams
Jane Addams
40
All of the following are the "three-C's" of T.R.'s "Square Deal"
EXCEPT
:
Fairness for Corporations
Fairness for workers
Conservation of Natural Resources
Fairness for consumers
41
Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low.
Captain of Industry
Robber Baron
42
What are companies who dominate 1 specific industry & is owned by 1 person (steel, oil, etc.) called?
Monopoly
Trust
43
What were Political Machines originally designed to do?
Give money to the poor
Eliminate political corruption
Find immigrants housing & Jobs
44
Which law gave farmland to citizens in order to move to the Great Plains?
Nebraska Act
Homestead Act
45
Immigrants who represented the period of "Old Immigrants" emigrated from...
Northern & Western Europe; Protestant (1820-1870)!!
Southern and eastern Europe. Largely Catholic and Jewish (1870-1900)!!
46
Immigrants who represented the period of "New Immigrants emigrated from...
Southern and eastern Europe. Largely Catholic and Jewish (1870-1900)
Northern & Western Europe; Protestant (1820-1870)
47
The
Pure Food & Drug Act of 1906
was inspired by which of the following books?
Karl Marx's "Communist Manefesto"
Ida Tarbell's "History of Standard Oil"
Jacob Riis' "How the Other Half Lives"
Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle"
48
Policy of protecting the interests of native-born inhabitants against those of immigrants is known as...
Nativism
Extremism
49
In reality political Machines/bosses did all of the following
EXCEPT
:
Embezzled tax money
Rigging Elections
Blackmail & Extortion
donated to charities (Philanthropy)
50
Who was the leading figure in the women's suffrage movement?
Emily Scarratt
Susan B. Anthony
51
What Supreme Court case legalized the
'Separate but Equal'
, doctrine which would establish racial segregation?
Plessey v. Ferguson (1896)
Madison v. Marbury (1803)
52
Under this policy in 1887, the U.S. Government sold Native-Americans land in order to farm more land.
Old MacDonald Act
Dawes Act
53
What is Xenophobia?
Fear of Xenophorps
Fear of outsiders!!
54
What amendment grants women's suffrage (right to vote)?
18th Amendment
17th Amendment
16th Amendment
19th Amendment
55
Who is responsible for "creating" the symbols of the Democrats & Republicans?
Abraham Lincoln
Jacob Riis
Thomas Nast
56
Who did the Dawes Act try & assimilate?
Chinese Americans
Native Americans
57
Populism is a movement which began in...
the urban areas of the U.S.
the Rural areas of the U.S.
58
The National Grange began as social group for farmers but developed into...
a Union for farmers!!
A place for farmers to hold a real "Hoe-Down"!!
59
Which "theory" promoted a survival of the fittest belief & that people were naturally selected to succeed?
Random selection
Social Darwinism
60
Who famously stated“...My constituents don't know how to read, but they can't help seeing them damned pictures."?
William "Boss" Tweed
Theodore Roosevelt aka T.R.
