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| 2571348573 | What was the real heart of the progressive movement? | To use the government as an agency of human welfare | 0 | |
| 2571352903 | What are the political roots of the progressive party? | Greenback labor party and the Populist party | 1 | |
| 2571373607 | What was the target of Thorstein Veblen's criticism? | Conspicuous consumption and predatory wealth | 2 | |
| 2571383284 | What was the target of Jack London's criticism? | Destruction of nature | 3 | |
| 2571387933 | What was the target of Jacob Riis' criticism? | Slum conditions | 4 | |
| 2571392571 | What was the target of Henry Demarest's criticism? | Bloated trusts | 5 | |
| 2571400847 | How is progressivism closely tied with feminist movement and women's rights? | Because they believed in women's suffrage | 6 | |
| 2571438739 | How did female progressives often justify their reformed activities? | They defended their new activities as an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers | 7 | |
| 2571452961 | Who did the muckraker David G. Phillips attack? | The U.S. Senate | 8 | |
| 2571458681 | Who did the muckraker Ida Tarbell attack? | The Standard Oil Company | 9 | |
| 2571463394 | Who did the muckraker Lincoln Steffens attack? | City governments | 10 | |
| 2571467170 | Who did the muckraker Ray Stannard Baker attack? | The condition of blacks | 11 | |
| 2571472206 | How did the muckrakers and progressives view capitalism? | They wanted to cleanse capitalism, not overthrow it | 12 | |
| 2571483199 | How did the muckrakers view their role in attacking social ills? | They wanted to make the public aware of the social problems | 13 | |
| 2571490619 | What is the Woman's Christian's Temperance Movement? | Advocated prohibition of liquor | 14 | |
| 2571497830 | Which class of society did progressive reformers tend to come from? | Middle class men and women who sensed pressure from large corporations, immigrant hordes, and labor unions | 15 | |
| 2571532532 | Which parties, regions, and levels of government did progressives tend to come from? | Progressives came from both parties, all regions, and all levels of government | 16 | |
| 2571549723 | What were the progressives views towards democracy? | They thought more democracy would cure American ills | 17 | |
| 2571561581 | What reforms did the progressives propose? | -Use state power to curb the trusts and to stem the socialist threat by generally improving the common person's conditions of life and labor -Regain the power that had slipped from the hands of the people into those of the "interests" -Referendum, -Root out graft | 18 | |
| 2571570954 | What was the 17th Amendment? | Direct election of the U.S. senators | 19 | |
| 2571593402 | Why were the settlement house and women's clubs movements crucial centers of female progressive activity? | Exposed middle class women to problems in cities: poverty, political corruption, and working and living conditions | 20 | |
| 2571606566 | Which issues were advocated to women progressives? | Preventing child labor in sweatshops, safe food products, creating pensions for mothers with dependent children, attacking diseases | 21 | |
| 2571625330 | What happened in Muller v. Oregon? | Attorney said that factory labor presented harmful effects to women's body | 22 | |
| 2571781230 | What was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and what were the consequences? | It was a fire in New York City and it lead to the death of many people and strikes | 23 | |
| 2571803324 | What did the public pass because of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire? | Laws were passed regulating hours and conditions of sweatshop toils and provided insurance to injured workers | 24 | |
| 2571823393 | What happened in Lochner v. New York and why was it a setback for progressives? | Limiting work to 10 hours a day unconstitutional | 25 | |
| 2571840851 | What is the city-manager form of government? | Designed to remove politics from municipal administration | 26 | |
| 2571854694 | What was the progressive goal of governmental efficiency? | Civic affairs removed from people's hands | 27 | |
| 2571881788 | What is "square deal?" | Theodore Roosevelt's reform proposals. | 28 | |
| 2571897140 | What is Roosevelt's reform agenda? | 1. Control of the corporations 2. Consumer protection 3. Conservation of natural resources | 29 | |
| 2571902413 | How did Roosevelt help in 1902 strike in coal mines? | Threatened to seize mines and operate them with federal troops | 30 | |
| 2571908896 | What happened with the Anthracite Coal Mines? | Workers demanded a 20% pay increase and nine hours rather than ten hours but mine owners refused to negotiate | 31 | |
| 2571923016 | What are the Elkins and Hepburns act? | Railroad legislation to end corruption | 32 | |
| 2571934657 | How did Roosevelt view trusts? | Believed they had arrived to stay. He thought there were bad trusts and good trusts and trusts were only bad if they acted as monopolies against the public interest | 33 | |
| 2571957756 | Why did Roosevelt prosecute some trusts? | Prove that the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States | 34 | |
| 2571964904 | What was Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" and what were the consequences of publication? | It focused on the workers in the big canning factories and told how unsanitary it was. After this many readers couldn't eat meat and it caused the Federal Meat Inspection Act to be passed | 35 | |
| 2571981739 | What was the Newlands Act? | It was designed to reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands | 36 | |
| 2571996782 | What was Roosevelt's best achievement? | Conservation and protecting the environment | 37 | |
| 2572006268 | What is multiple-use resource management? | Sought to combine recreation, sustained-yield logging, watershed protection, and summer stock grazing | 38 | |
| 2572016175 | Why did Roosevelt announce he wouldn't be candidate for a third term? | It was a tactical blunder but he weakened himself politically | 39 | |
| 2572030541 | What was the panic of 1907? | There was a money shortage and banks couldn't increase the volume of money and it exposed the need for a bank reform | 40 | |
| 2572042357 | What banking reform followed the panic of 1907? | Aldrich-Vreeland Act was passed which authorized national banks to issue emergency currency | 41 | |
| 2572051962 | Theodore Roosevelt's presidency | - Enhanced power of presidency - Aid the environment - Shape progressive movement - Provide an international perspective | 42 | |
| 2572091543 | Who was William Howard Taft? | He was focused more on status quo rather than change | 43 | |
| 2572099995 | What is dollar diplomacy? | Taft's foreign policy in which he used the lever of American investments to boost American political interests abroad | 44 | |
| 2572157146 | What is the Supreme Court's "rule of reason?" | Only the combinations that "unreasonably" restrained trade were illegal. | 45 | |
| 2572169061 | Why did Roosevelt decide to run for presidency in 1912? | Taft was discarding Roosevelt's policies | 46 | |
| 2574157792 | What are some of the muckrakers most successful attacks directed at? | Social evils | 47 |
