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US Studies
Progressive Era Review Questions
Question | Answer |
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Restricting the power to political machines was usually left to... | municipal refroms |
Reformers wanted to provide citizens with more affordable services by transfering control of urban utilites to.. | the city |
One way reformers hoped to end corruption in government was to... | give voters more direct say in lawmaking |
During the Progressive Era many states... | abolished child labor |
When thr United Mine Workers called a strike in 1902, President Roosevelt... | called for arbiration |
Roosevelt vigorously enforced... | the Sherman Antitrust Act |
The new Labor Department supported legislation that would benefit... | women and children |
The oregressive faction of the Republican party protested Presidnet Taft's handling of the... | Balinger-Pinchot affair |
Progressives in Congress, unlike Taft, favored... | high tariffs |
The platform of the Bull Moose party supported... | women's sufferage |
In the election of 1912, a split in the Republican party helped... | Wilson win |
The Clayton Antitrust Act was especially favored by... | labor unions |
As a measure to prevent bank failures, President Wilson helped create the... | Federal Reserve System |
The progressive movement focused mainly in the problems of... | Urban residents |