Ch 29: Mc

Front 1

T/F: The progressive movement believed that social and economic problems shoud be solved at the community level without involvement by the federal govt

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False

Front 2

T/F: The leading progressive reformers were primarily immigrants and urban industrial workers

Back 2

False

Front 3

T/F: President Theodore Roosevelt ended the anthracite coal strike by threatening to use federal troops to break the miners' union

Back 3

False

Front 4

T/F: Roosevelt promoted stronger federal legislation to regulate the railroads and other major industries

Back 4

True

Front 5

T/F: Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle was intended to arouse consumers' concern about unsanitary practices in the meat industry.

Back 5

False

Front 6

How did defenders of nature become divided?

Back 6

They becasme divided between fervent "preservationists" who wanted to stop all human intrusions and the more moderate "conservationists"

Front 7

What was Roosevelt's relationship with American business?

Back 7

He effectively used the power of the presidency and the federal govt to tame unrestricted capitalism while preserving the basic foundations of American business

Front 8

T/F: Taft's "dollar diplomacy" was a successful attempt to mobilize American business to support US foreign policy in East Asia and Latin America

Back 8

False

Front 9

T/F: Progressive Republicans became angry with President Taft because he began to form alliances with Democrats and Socialists

Back 9

False

Front 10

T/F: The Ballinger-Pinchot conservation controversy pushed Taft into alliance with the Republican "old Guard" against the pro-Roosevelt progressives.

Back 10

True

Front 11

T/F: President Taft used his control of the Republican party machinery to deny Roosevelt the nomination in 1913

Back 11

True

Front 12

The primary emphasis of the progressive movement was on
A) freeing individuals and business from federal control
B) protecting farmers and small business from corporate power
C) strengthening government as an instrument of social betterment.
D) organizing workers into a unified and class-conscious political party.

Back 12

C

Front 13

Prominent among those who aroused the progressive mvmt by stirring the public's sense of consern were

Back 13

socialists, social gospelers, women, and muckraking journalists

Front 14

What were the targets of muckraking journalistic exposes?

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urban politics and govt, the oil, insurance, and railroad industries, child labor and the "white slave" traffic in women

Front 15

Most progressives were

Back 15

urban middle-class people

Front 16

Among the political reforms sought by the progressives were

Back 16

initiative and referendum, direct election of senators, and women's suffrage

Front 17

The states where progressivism first gained great influence were

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Wisconsin, Oregon, and CA

Front 18

Muller v Oregon

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seen as a victory for both progressivism and women rights because it upheld the constitutionality of laws granting special protection to women in the workplace

Front 19

Roosevelt ended the Pennsylvania coal strike by

Back 19

forcing mediation by threatening to seize the coal mines and operate them with federal troops