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| 6120070413 | T/F: The progressive movement believed that social and economic problems should be solved at the community level without involvement by the federal government | False, Progressives favored the growth of government power over the economy and society | 0 | |
| 6120071954 | T/F: Muckraking journalists, social-gospel ministers, and women reformers all aroused Americans' concern about economic and social problems | True | 1 | |
| 6120077518 | T/F: Early 20th century progressivism found its home almost entirely in the Republican party | False, there were large numbers of progressives in both major parties | 2 | |
| 6120083432 | T/F: Many female progressives saw the task of improving life in factories and slums as an extension of their traditional roles as wives and mothers | True | 3 | |
| 6120085924 | T/F: President Theodore Roosevelt ended the anthracite coal strike by threatening to use federal troops to break the miners' union | False, he threatened the owners with federal intervention, saying he would seize their mines | 4 | |
| 6120090539 | T/F: Some progressive reforms such as the municipal ownership of utilities were modeled on the admired practices of contemporary German cities | True | 5 | |
| 6120094211 | T/F: Roosevelt believed that all the monopolistic corporate trusts should be broken up so that competition could be restored among smaller businesses | False, he believed that there were good trusts and bad trusts, and only bad trusts should be broken up | 6 | |
| 6120098590 | T/F: Upton Sinclair's novel, The Jungle, was intended to arouse consumers' concern about unsanitary practices in the meat industry | False, it was intended to focus attention on the plight of the meat-packing workers | 7 | |
| 6120103255 | T/F: Conservation of forests, water, and other natural resources was probably TR's most popular and enduring presidential achievement | True | 8 | |
| 6120107793 | T/F: Defenders of nature became divided between fervent preservationists who wanted to stop all human intrusions into wilderness areas and more moderate conservationists who thought nature should be available for multiple uses | True | 9 | |
| 6120112564 | T/F: Roosevelt effectively used the power of the presidency and the federla government to tame and regulate unbridled capitalism while preserving the basic foundations of the market system and American business | True | 10 | |
| 6120116169 | T/F: William Howard Taft demonstrated his skill as a political campaigner and leader throughout his presidency | False, Taft was an unskilled politician and an inept campaigner | 11 | |
| 6120122144 | T/F: Progressive Republicans became angry with President Taft because he began to form alliances with Democrats and Socialists | False, Progressives grew angry over his tariff and conservation policies and his alliance with reactionaries | 12 | |
| 6120127205 | T/F: The Ballinger-Pinchot conservation controversy pushed Taft further into an alliance with the reactionary Republican Old Guard and against the pro-Roosevelt progressives | True | 13 | |
| 6120129460 | T/F: President Taft used his firm control of the Republican party machinery to deny TR the nomination in 1912 | True | 14 | |
| 6120131005 | Two primary goals of the progressive movement, as a whole, were to | use the state to curb monopoly power and improve the lives of ordinary people | 15 | |
| 6120134374 | Prominent among those who aroused the progressive movement by stirring the public's sense of concern were | socialists, social gospelers, women, and muckraking journalists | 16 | |
| 6120138253 | Which of the following was *not* among the targets of muckraking journalistic exposés? a. Urban politics and government b. The oil, insurance, and railroad industries c. The US Army and Navy d. Child labor and the white slave traffic in women e. Makers of patent medicines and other adultered or dangerous drugs | c | 17 | |
| 6120292647 | Most progressives were | urban middle-class people | 18 | |
| 6120295229 | Among the political reforms sought by the progressives were | initiative and referendum, direct election of senators, and women's suffrage | 19 | |
| 6120297272 | The states where progressivism first gained great influence were | Wisconsin, Oregon, and California | 20 | |
| 6120302139 | The Supreme Court case of Muller v. Oregon was seen as a victory for both progressivism and women's rights because it | upheld the constitutionality of state laws granting special protections to women in the workplace | 21 | |
| 6120304230 | President Theodore Roosevelt ended the major Pennsylvania coal strike by | forcing the mine owners and workers to negotiate by threatening to seize the coal mines and operate them with federal troops | 22 | |
| 6120308379 | The Roosevelt-backed Elkins Act and Hepburn Act were aimed at | more effective regulation of the railroad industry | 23 | |
| 6120312246 | The controversy over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park revealed | a philosophical disagreement between wilderness preservationists and more moderate multiple-use conservationists | 24 | |
| 6120316273 | Two issues that President Roosevelt especially promoted as part of his progressive policies were | consumer protection and conservation of nature | 25 | |
| 6120319240 | Roosevelt was blamed by big business for the Panic of 1907 because | his progressive boat-rocking tactics had allegedly unsettled industry and undermined business confidence | 26 | |
| 6120323192 | As a result of his successful presidential campaign in 1908, William Taft was widely expected to | continue and extent Theodore Roosevelt's progressive policies | 27 | |
| 6120326641 | Progressive Republicans grew deeply disillusioned with Taft, especially over the issues of | trust-busting, tariffs, and conservation | 28 | |
| 6120329248 | Roosevelt finally decided to break with the Republicans and form a third party because | Taft had used his control of the Republican party machine to deny Roosevelt the nomination | 29 |
