US History Progressive reading quiz
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- Q1Which of the following best describes the type of people who were drawn to the Progressive movement?They were of all political parties, social classes, races and religions.hey were mostly racial minorities who sought to remedy racial injustice.They were mostly Republicans and tended to be wealthy.They were mostly Democratic and tended to be working class.30s
- Q2Which other political movement in US history was similar to Progressivism in that both wanted to fight corruption and both sought to eliminate the perceived abuses of big business?The Whig PartyThe PopulistsThe libertarian partyThe Anti-Imperialist movement30s
- Q3All of the following were major goals of Progressives EXCEPT:Winning the right to vote for womenFighting against bosses, political machines and city government corruptionBusting the trustsCreate laws outlawing racial discrimination30s
- Q4Who gave the progressive investigative journalists the nickname “muckrakers”?Upton SinclairTheodore RooseveltWilliam McKinleyJohn D. Rockefeller30s
- Q5What city did Lincoln Steffens profile in his famous 1902 muckraking piece “The Shame of the Cities”?HoustonAtlantaPhiladelphiaChicago30s
- Q6Theodore Dreiser, a Midwesterner raised in poverty, published _________________ in 1900. His provocative novel traces the fate of a…(person) drawn into the brutal urban worlds of Chicago and New York.Slaughterhouse-5Sister CarrieThe Call of the WildThe Jungle30s
- Q7. A new style of Christianity popular in the early 20th century that deemphasized personal salvation and instead focused on doing good works to help the poor and bring about God’s kingdom in the here and now was called:The Emergent ChurchProsperity TheologyThe Social GospelThe Christian Right30s
- Q8The progressive woman who founded the Settlement House in Chicago known as Hull House was:Eleanor RooseveltNelly BlyEllen WatkinsJane Addams30s
- Q9Hull House and other settlement houses were important to the development of this field:Political ScienceSocial WorkEconomicsGender Studies30s
- Q10Why was the effort to ban child labor slow to achieve their goal?Because the American people as a whole were uninformed and apathetic on this issue.Because poor families depended on the wages that their children made, and they fought it by voting against it.Because Big Business opposed a ban on child labor and lobbied the Congress to create no laws of that nature.Because the law that banned child labor was initially struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional.30s
- Q11The results of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York were that:Child labor was finally outlawed.Fire Departments budgets were doubled .Women were discouraged from taking jobs outside the home.Progressives demanded new regulations for workplace safety.30s
- Q12Which Texas city was leveled by a hurricane and as a result created the “City Commission” form of city government in order to rebuild. (This government had the city run by “experts” rather than political machines or bosses.)AustinGalvestonSan AntonioDallas30s
- Q13Robert M. Lafolette, the governor of ________________ was the first to establish direct primary elections where citizens themselves voted to select party nominees for upcoming elections.CaliforniaNew YorkWisconsinMichigan30s
- Q14Which of the following reforms gave people the power to put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting signatures on a petition?RecallReferendumInitiative30s
- Q15The 17th amendment to the US Constitution did this:Gave women the voteCreated direct election of US SenatorsCreated an income taxEnacted prohibition of alcohol30s