Chapter #9: Progressive Era

Which statement best characterizes the position of Gifford Pinchot toward land conservation?

The first person to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit” was...

A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as...

The movement to protect America’s natural resources.

The term used to describe the progressive reforms of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Which statement best characterizes Roosevelt’s position on trusts?

Which of the following actions led to the defeat of Taft in 1912?

President whose actions split the Republican party after he angered both progressives and conservationists.

What effect did World War I have on the suffragist movement?

Watchdog agency given the power to stop unfair business practice.

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed...

All of the following were actively involved in securing the right to vote for women except...

In the mid-1800s, the majority of women who held jobs worked as...

A leader of the woman suffrage movement.

Which strategy was not employed by woman suffragists to obtain their goal?

Which of the following was not a result of the introduction of the assembly line?

An advocate for improving the lives of women and children.

Why were early progressive attempts to enact federal bans on child labor unsuccessful?

What was the primary motivation for passage of the Sixteenth Amendment?

Reform movement that sought to return control of the government to the people.

Who gained most from the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment?

In the election of 1912, the candidate considered least pleasing to reformers was...

A plan that reformed how American banks were organized.

The primary goal of the NAACP was...

Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists?

The law that required truthful labels was the...

Muckrakers were...

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except...

President of the United States who was a former president of Princeton University and governor of New Jersey.

Muckraking journalist who exposed the terrible conditions of the meatpacking industry.