Chapter 15
1. Which of the following was the greatest and most effective weapon used by Progressives in
bringing about reform?
a. a strong desire to bring about social and racial equality
b. a supportive court system
c. centralized national reforms forced upon municipalities
d. information disseminated to a widening public
e. charismatic leaders like William McKinley
2. Despite later calling themselves liberals, Progressives were also conservative in that they
were
a. creating a new social order.
b. protecting trusts and large corporations.
c. addressing threats to American democracy.
d. returning to ideas of the founding fathers.
e. creating more wealth.
3. Which of the following was NOT a successful Progressive reform?
a. Federal Trade Commission
b. Federal Reserve Bank
c. giving citizenship to Native American tribes
d. presidential primaries
e. direct election of senators
4. A fundamental difference between Populists and Progressives was that Progressives
believed
a. small farmers should form the backbone of American government.
b. government was incapable of protecting democracy.
c. government was hopelessly corrupt and run by big business.
d. government was capable of protecting democracy and enacting needed reforms.
e. expanding the supply of currency would solve America’s problems.
5. Which of the following is NOT true of Social Gospel theologians?
a. They supported progressive reform.
b. They supported social Darwinist writers like Herbert Spencer.
c. They saw the theory of evolution as consistent with the Bible.
d. They rejected the idea of “survival of the fittest.”
e. Fighting inequality wrought by industrialism was a moral imperative.
6. Which of the following did Social Gospel theologians and clergy support?
a. industrial growth
b. labor unions
c. free silver
d. Jim Crow segregation
e. nationalizing railroads
7. What does the term “a splendid little war” refer to?
a. Mexican-American War
b. American-Hawaiian War
c. Wounded Knee
d. Spanish-American War
e. American-Philippine War
8. Which of the following techniques did yellow journalism use to sell papers?
a. removing photos and drawings to make papers seem more serious
b. in-depth investigative reporting
c. sensationalized claims and large, blaring headlines
d. printing them on yellow paper
e. expanding sports coverage
9. As cities across the country embraced a more militarized style of policing, which of these
patterns emerged?
a. More immigrant women were arrested.
b. A disproportionately low number of African Americans were arrested.
c. More immigrants, especially men, filled cells in city jails.
d. A disproportionately high number of African Americans were arrested.
e. Native Americans living in urban areas became fearful of police.
10. The Great Migration refers to which of these population shifts?
a. Eastern Europeans moving to American cities.
b. Southern rural Blacks moving to southern urban centers.
c. Western farmers moving to growing industrial centers.
d. Southern Blacks moving north and west.
e. Southern urban African Americans moving to western farms.
11. What was the significance of the Wong Kim Ark v. U.S. decision?
a. It reduced further the limits on migration set in the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
b. It confirmed that “right of blood” was more important that “right of soil” in determining
citizenship.
c. It confirmed that being born in the United States made one a citizen.
d. It allowed the State of California to set limits on immigrants from China.
e. It restricted international travel for Chinese immigrants.
12. Which statement is true about immigrants arriving at Ellis Island?
a. They anticipated a more leisurely life than they had experienced in Europe.
b. They were generally well off and reasonably educated.
c. Most of them spoke fluent English.
d. They carried all the possessions they owned on their backs.
e. They met with calls to keep their ethnic traditions alive.
13. Due to Ida Tarbell’s indictment of Standard Oil, its founder, __________, became the most
despised man in America.
a. Ray Stannard Baker
b. Samuel Sidney McClure
c. Andrew Carnegie
d. John D. Rockefeller
e. Walter Lippmann
14. Which two people drove the Progressive movement more than any others?
a. Woodrow Wilson and Jane Addams
b. Samuel McClure and Ray Stannnard Baker
c. Theodore Roosevelt and John Rockefeller
d. Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt
e. Theodore Roosevelt and Jane Addams
15. What intellectual trend of the age explained the laissez-faire approach of the Supreme
Court?
a. Social Gospel
b. social Darwinism
c. Progressivism
d. voluntary organizations
e. scientific management
16. What did Louis Brandeis argue to win the Muller v. Oregon case?
a. Children should work shorter hours.
b. Women are inherently inferior to men.
c. Women deserved equal political rights.
d. Motherhood had to be protected by law.
e. Women had the right to join unions.
17. What was the goal of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s concept of “scientific management”?
a. increase efficiency by building factories closer to sources of materials
b. rationalize the structure of corporate management
c. increase mechanization to expand production
d. increase efficiency through time-and-motion studies
e. increase efficiency by hiring more women since they were faster workers
18. The railroad is to the nineteenth century as __________ is to the twentieth.
a. the radio
b. electricity
c. consumerism
d. the automobile
e. urbanization
19. Who famously wrote, “Machinery is the new Messiah?”
a. Clarence Darrow
b. Walter Chrysler
c. Frederick Winslow Taylor
d. Louis Brandeis
e. Henry Ford
20. What was one of the functions of Henry Ford’s Sociological Department?
a. study the social relationships in his factories
b. instill a set of values into workers, especially immigrants
c. keep workers from quitting their jobs and moving elsewhere
d. study American society to better market Model T’s
e. create socializing opportunities for workers