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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why were the doors locked during the Riangle Shirtwaist Company Fire? | the owners didn't want women to have too many bathroom breaks |
| During the Progressive era, the largest city in the US was? | New York |
| Ida Tarbell tirelessly worked to expose? | The Standard Oil Company |
| Causes of the "new immigration" included? | The outbreak of revolutions and warfare outside of the US |
| The point at which most European immigrants passed into the United States was? | Ellis Island, New York |
| A major limitation to the new consumer freedom included? | the Unequal distribution of income throughout the ocuntry |
| Of all the mass consumption activities, this was the most popular form of mass entertianment | Vaudeville |
| in her influential book, Women and Economics, Charolette Perkins Gilman reinforced this idea? | Women's freedom lay through the workplace than only the domestic scene |
| Henry Ford's factory adopted a method of production know as the | moving assembly line |
| From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T car approximately? | halved |
| During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to? | consumer products |
| The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controllin costs and work practices was called? | scientific management |
| Which of the following is attributed to Louis D. Braneis? | He felt the foremost social problem in America was contradiction be tween political liberty and industrioal slavery |
| Which of the following is attributed to Eugene V. Debs? | He ran an unsuccesful attempt for the postition of President |
| Between 1900 and 1904 membership in the American Federation of Labor | Exploded to triple their earlier membership numbers |
| Which of the following is attributed to William "Big Bill" Haywood? | He was accused of instigation the murder of a former anti-union governor |
| The series of mass strikes called the "Uprising of the 20,000" in New York included | immigrant workers who wanted the right to bargain collectively with their employers |
| When faced with the possible elimination of their unions and a reduction in their wages, 10,000 black and white dockworkers held a strike in 1907 in | New Orleans |
| Those who embraced the new "bohemia" included | people who rejected conventional rules and practices |
| A leader in the new feminism, Margaret Sanger | opened a clinic and began distributing contreceptive devices to poor women |
| This term asserted governmental action to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life. | "Social legislation" |
| The founder of the Oregon System of direct legislature was | William U'Ren |
| The first women to become mayors of major cities, governors, and members of Congress hailed from the West and included | Jeanett Rankin, Montana |
| President Theodore Roosevelt's reform program was called the | "Square Deal" |
| The conservationist movement is most closely related to which president? | Theodore Roosevelt |
| The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 | outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstat commerce |
| Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as | muckrakers |
| The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes | a loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about socail and political change in American life |
| Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence? | assassination of President Mckinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act |
| The Progressive era was a time of | explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, increased industrial production, and a "Golded Age" for agriculture |
| Which of the following individuals was a muckraker? | Uption Sinclair |
| Between 1901 and 1914, | 13 Million immigrants came to the US |
| The Progressive-era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called | Fordism |
| Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for | an endorsement of the rights of working people to organize unions |
| What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state? | Industrial Workers of the World |
| The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was | The attack by an armed militia agianst a tent of striking workers in Colorado |
| What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?" and whose definition of feminism emphasized women's emancipation "both as a human being and a sex-being"? | Heterodoxy |
| Who was the Progressive-era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established free kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize? | Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones |
| Who was the early-twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities? | Robert La Follette |
| The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is | the 17th Amendment |
| Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911? | it was formed to provied Native Americans with remedies for social injustice |
| Who founded the Society of American Indians in 1911? | Carlos Montezuma |
| The Indian newsletter, Wassaja, called for the abolition of the | Bureau of Indian Affairs |
| Who benefitted the most from the Wassaja newsletter? | future American activists |
| Where were most of the Society of American Indians educated? | US government boarding schools |
| t/f Cities expanded so rapidly that by 1920 for the first time more Americans lived in towns and cities than in rural areas. | true |
| t/f According to the Commission on Industrial Relations, more than two-thirds of the country's mining and manufacturing workers lived in more prosperity than they had ever known. | false |
| t/f By 1910, more than 40 percent of New York City's population had been born abroad. | true |
| t/f Immigrant women were largely confined to low-paying factory employment. | true |
| t/f During the Progressive era, numerous products utilized the image of the Statue of Liberty as a sales device. | true |
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