Ch 18 T/f

Front 1

In the Progressive Era, industry was on the rise and agriculture was in decline.

Back 1

False

Front 2

By 1900, more than 80,000 women in the United States had earned college degrees.

Back 2

True

Front 3

During the Progressive Era, city managers and nonpartisan commissions ran many municipalities.

Back 3

True

Front 4

One current of Progressive-era political thought promoted the view that experts—college professors and others able to apply scientific methods to modern social problems—ought to direct government policy.

Back 4

True

Front 5

A significant step in the expansion of federal power over the economy was taken in 1906 with passage of the Hepburn Act, which allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set railroad rates.

Back 5

True

Front 6

The new radical "bohemia" that thrived in places like Greenwich Village explored fresh ways of thinking about politics, culture, and sexuality.

Back 6

True

Front 7

Mabel Dodge's New York living room was the location of a famed "salon" in which bohemian intellectuals and intelligentsia gathered to discuss issues of sexual liberation, modern trends in art, and labor unrest.

Back 7

True

Front 8

President Theodore Roosevelt distinguished between "good" and "bad" corporations, and in the Northern Securities Company case made his mark as a trust buster.

Back 8

True

Front 9

Women reformers devoted little attention to labor conditions, regarding that as a "man's issue."

Back 9

False

Front 10

The initiative, referendum, and recall were all early twentieth-century means by which democracy was expanded.

Back 10

True

Front 11

During the Progressive era, the Imperial Valley of California was transformed by irrigation and became a major area of commercial farming.

Back 11

True

Front 12

The first World Series was played in 1903.

Back 12

True

Front 13

An example of President Roosevelt's activism was his handling of the anthracite coal strike of 1902, in which he threatened a federal takeover of the mines.

Back 13

True

Front 14

Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi to allow women the right to vote in presidential elections.

Back 14

False

Front 15

The 1911, Triangle Fire was a fire in a triangular region of Massachusetts between the towns of Worcester, Boston, and Salem.

Back 15

False

Front 16

The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.

Back 16

True

Front 17

The Progressive era was a time of economic expansion that produced millions of new jobs and brought unprecedented material wealth to millions of Americans.

Back 17

True

Front 18

Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912 she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau.

Back 18

True

Front 19

Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in American history.

Back 19

True

Front 20

After 1910, mothers' pensions—aid given to mothers of young children who lacked male support—were established by many states; though, to be sure, the amounts of the monthly checks given to such mothers was small and often inadequate.

Back 20

True

Front 21

Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) by which the federal government became the agent policing the labeling and quality of food and drugs.

Back 21

True

Front 22

Gifford Pinchot held that logging, mining, and grazing on public lands should be eliminated.

Back 22

False

Front 23

"Social legislation" includes governmental action taken to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life.

Back 23

True

Front 24

By 1910, almost 60 percent of workers in leading manufacturing and mining industries were foreign-born.

Back 24

True

Front 25

The Underwood Tariff imposed a graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans.

Back 25

True

Front 26

In the early twentieth century, New York City was a center of finance, publishing, and entertainment, but there was almost no manufacturing going on in the city.

Back 26

False

Front 27

Historians call the period of American history from the closing years of the nineteenth century into the second decade of the twentieth century the Progressive era.

Back 27

True

Front 28

One of the main principles of Frederick W. Taylor's "scientific management" was the submission of workers to the dictates of their supervisors.

Back 28

True

Front 29

The 1912 Progressive Party platform set out a blueprint for a modern welfare state.

Back 29

True

Front 30

As president, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to break up every business trust he could find.

Back 30

False

Front 31

Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe showed little interest in emerging forms of popular entertainment such as amusement parks, dance halls, and nickelodeons.

Back 31

False

Front 32

The politics of Progressivism was almost solely a North American phenomenon.

Back 32

False

Front 33

After 1900, the campaign for woman suffrage became a mass movement; membership in the American Woman Suffrage Association was more than 2 million by 1917.

Back 33

True

Front 34

By 1913, twenty-two states had enacted workmen's compensation laws.

Back 34

True

Front 35

Feminists who supported mothers' pensions believed these pensions would empower single women.

Back 35

True

Front 36

At times Progressives sought to expand popular democracy, and at times they sought to restrict it.

Back 36

True

Front 37

The Federal Reserve System (1913), and the Federal Trade Commission (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive Era.

Back 37

True

Front 38

By 1900, more than half of the states allowed women to vote on school issues, and four Western states allowed women full suffrage.

Back 38

True

Front 39

By the 1910s, women worked not only as domestic servants, but also as office workers, telephone operators, and store clerks.

Back 39

True

Front 40

Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs.

Back 40

False

Front 41

Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century.

Back 41

True