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Progressivism-Ch. 21
Chapter 21 questions and answers over progressivism.
Question | Answer |
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A luster of movements for various forms of social change-some of them contradictory, what was this which occurred during the twentieth century? | Progressivism. |
Who opposed corruption and inefficiency in government, monopoly power among corporations, and wayward behavior among immigrants and others? | Progressives. |
Artists whom were individualists, yet supported political and social reform, and were caught up in the progressive movement. What were these artists of? | Ashcan School. |
A term used for progressive investigative journalists who exposed the seamy side of American life, "raking up the muck," which is this term? | Mucracker. |
What was a militant labor organization, which advocated "abolition of the wage system" and called for a single union of all workers, regardless of trade or skill level? | Industrial Workers of the World (I W W). |
What year was the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) founded? | 1905. |
Who were the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) inspired by? | European anarchists. |
When was the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) repressed? | During and after World War 1. |
What is the right of woman to vote, ensured by the passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment? | Woman Suffrage. |
What year had woman suffrage occurred? | 1920. |
Uniting the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association. This became the League of Woman Voters, what organization is this? | National American Woman Suffrage Association (N A W S A). |
Which Amendment granted woman the right to vote in 1920? | The Nineteenth Amendment. |
An arbitrated settlement between workers and an employed, but more generally employed as a goal to promote fair business practices and to punish "bad" corporations that used their economic clout unfairly. What does this information describe? | Square Deal. |
Who was the Square Deal phrase employed by and during what year? | President Theodore Roosevelt, the year 1904. |
What was a Federal legislation that gave the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) sufficient power to inspect railroad companies' records, set maximum rates, and outlaw free passes? | Hepburn Act. |
What year was the Hepburn Act passed? | 1906. |
What is the efficient management and use of natural resources, such as forests, grasslands, and rivers called? | Conservation. |
Which policy proposed it would restore competition by breaking up the trusts and punishing corporations that violated rules of business conduct? | New Freedom. |
Who used the "New Freedom" as their term during the 1912 presidential campaign? | Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson. |
What is a national interracial organization that promoted the rights of African American? | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (N A A C P). |
What year was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) founded? | 1909. |
Encouraged an expansion of federal power to regulate big business and enact legislation to promote social justice, what was this? | New Nationalism. |
During which election and which president had encouraged the New Nationalism? | The election of 1912, progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt's. |
Which reform law during 1913 had lowered tariff rates and levied the first regular federal income tax? | Underwood Tariff. |
What 1913 law established a Federal Reserve Board which controlled the rediscount rate and thus the money supply? | Federal Reserve Act. |
Specifically what act in 1913 helped regulate the national banking system? | The Federal Reserve Act. |
What was a legislation that had strengthened antitrust laws? | Clayton Antitrust Act. |
What year was the Clayton Antitrust Act passed? | 1914. |
This movement happened to be a response by W.E.B. Du Bois and other blacks, opposition to Booker T. Washington. A political program to achieve equal opportunity, equal justice and an end to segregation that led to the found of the NAACP. | Niagara Movement. |
The year of the Niagara Movement was? | 1905. |