AP US History: Chapter 20 Flashcards

13483901599	while progressivism has many meanings it tended to be based on the central assumption	that american society was capable of improvement	0
13483901600	At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists	Were "antimonopoly" and feared concentrated power	1
13483901601	The term "muckrakers"	Journalists	2
13483901602	At the turn of the twentieth century, Lincoln Steffens wrote extensively of the need to reform	Urban political organizations	3
13483901603	in 1904, Idea Tarbell published a highly critical study on	The standard oil trust	4
13483901604	In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth centuries the "social gospel"	An effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform	5
13483901605	At the turn of the twentieth century the leaders of the settlement house movement tended to be	Female	6
13483901606	At the turn of the twentieth century, leaders in the settlement house movement	directed their attention at improving urban living conditions	7
13483901607	The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of	Social work	8
13483901608	In his 1899 book, A Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen argued	Modern cities should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems	9
13483901609	In regards to organizing the professions during the progressive era	by ww1, all states had established professional bar associations	10
13483901610	In 1901 first professions to organize on a national level was in the field of	Medicine	11
13483901611	In regards to women and the professions during the progressive era	social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women	12
13483901612	The most distinctive quality of women in professions during the progressive era was	They were concentrated in the "helping" professions	13
13483901613	During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of	All of the above	14
13483901614	The term "Boston marriage"	Two women who lived together	15
13483901615	In regards to divorce in the united states during the progressive era, by 1916	more than 10% of all marriages ended in divorce	16
13483901616	During the progressive era, the women's club movement	Had a national organization to coordinate club activities	17
13483901617	During the progressive era, club women generally	Neither A nor B	18
13483901618	During the progressive era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters	Deserved to vote because of their unique traits as women	19
13483901619	During the progressive era, significant voting rights for women were first won in	The far west	20
13483901620	In the years prior to the passage of the nineteenth amendment	Both A and B	21
13483901621	Alice Paul and the national women's party	Neither A nor B	22
13483901622	Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, voter ballots were printed and distributed by	The political parties themselves	23
13483901623	During the progressive era, one of the first targets for political reformers	Municipal governments	24
13483901624	During the progressive era, opponents of political reform included many memebers of all of the following except	The middle class	25
13483901625	During the progressive era, reformers of city government frequently tried	Create city managers	26
13483901626	The initiative and referendum were progressive era political reforms, designed to weaken	State legislatures	27
13483901627	The recall and direct primary were progressive era political reforms, designed to weaken	Political parties	28
13483901628	As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette	The direct primary	29
13483901629	During the progressive era, the power of political parties	Declined as did voter turnout	30
13483901630	During the progressive era, political "interest groups"	Were a product of the progressive era	31
13483901631	During the progressive era, important vehicles for social reform	New York's Tammany hall political machine	32
13483901632	The 1911 triangle shirtwaist fire in new york city	Strict regulations with effective enforcement were imposed on factory owners	33
13483901633	Western states during the progressive era, major target for political reform	The federal government	34
13483901634	Progressive reformers from the western states	Alfred E. Smith	35
13483901635	A major reason progressive political reforms, such as the direct primary, were quickly embraced in the western states	Political parties were weak in this region	36
13483901636	During the progressive, w. e. b. Du Bois asserted all of the following except	The principle tool for gaining civil rights was to elect blacks to public office	37
13483901637	The national association for the advancement of colored people	Neither A or B	38
13483901638	The temperance crusade,	Was supproted by most business employers	39
13483901639	The women's christian temperance union	Was at one time the largest women's organization in American history	40
13483901640	Between 1914 and 1919, the temperance movement	Gained momentum as a result of ww1	41
13483901641	In regards to the immigrant population in the united states, progressive reformers	Both A and b	42
13483901642	In the early twentieth century, the theories of eugenics	Supported the restriction of immigration by nationality	43
13483901643	During the progressive era, the socialist party of america	Grew stronger	44
13483901644	During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of american socialism	Eugene Debs	45
13483901645	In the 1912 presidential election, the socialist party candidate	Both A and B: received nearly one million votes and attracted support from rural and urban	46
13483901646	During the early twentieth century, the industrial workers of the world	Advocated a single union for all workers	47
13483901647	WW1 hurt the socialist movement in the united states	The war generated anti-radical feelings in the country	48
13483901648	Herbert Croly argued in his 1909 book, the promise of american life, that	It was important that the federal government was led by a strong president: government should distinguish between good trusts and bad trusts	49
13483901649	When Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency in 1901	Neither	50
13483901650	Political ideology, Theodore Roosevelt	in many respects, decidedly conservative	51
13483901651	When he assumed the presidency in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt	Was the youngest ever	52
13483901652	During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president	he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities	53
13483901653	In the 1902 strike by the united mine workers, president Theodore Roosevelt	Ordered federal arbitration	54
13483901654	In the election of 1904, Theodore Roosevelt	easily won his party nomination and the general election	55
13483901655	Legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration except	Interstate commerce act	56
13483901656	Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle	Meatpacking industry	57
13483901657	Environmental issues, Theodore Roosevelt	Both A and B	58
13483901658	As an environmental conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt	added extensive areas of land to the national forest system	59
13483901659	The first director of the National Forest Service was	Pinchot	60
13483901660	The Sierra Club was founded by	John Muir	61
13483901661	The controversy over Hetch Hetchy Valley is false	Theodore Roosevelt led the fight in favor of building a dam at Hetch Hetchy	62
13483901662	The panic of 1907 was caused by	None of these answers is correct	63
13483901663	In 1908, Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president because	He had promised not to run again	64
13483901664	In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft	was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him	65
13483901665	As president, William Howard Taft	Neither A or b	66
13483901666	The payne-aldrich tariff of 1909	resulted in President william H Taft losing favor with progressives	67
13483901667	In 1909, a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot	President William H. Taft fire Pinchot for insubordination	68
13483901668	In 1910, in Osawatomie Kansas	greater activism by the federal government	69
13483901669	In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt ran for president, in part, because	the Taft administration implied Roosevelt had acted improperly as president	70
13483901670	In the presidential campaign of 1912,	Theodore Roosevelt ultimately ran on a third party ticket	71
13483901671	The 1912 presidential election was an ideological contest between	Both A and B	72
13483901672	In the 1912 presidential election results,	Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote	73
13483901673	In his political program known as "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson	Believed trusts should be ended altogether	74
13483901674	As president Woodrow Wilson	more tightly consolidated executive power than had Theodore Roosevelt	75
13483901675	During president Woodrow Wilson's first term, Colonel Edward House	Was one of wilsons closest advisors	76
13483901676	The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff	Was intended to weaken the power of business trusts	77
13483901677	In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress	Passed a graduate income tax	78
13483901678	In 1913, a major reform of American banking	The federal reserve act	79
13483901679	The federal reserve act	Created a new paper currency	80
13483901680	The federal trade commission act	created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government	81
13483901681	By the fall of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson	believed his reform program had largely been accomplished.)	82
13483901682	In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson	None are correct	83
13483901683	After the elections of 1914, Presidential Woodrow Wilson	began another round of progressive legislation	84
13483901684	The 1916 Keating-Owen Act	First law regulating child labor	85
13483901685	The supreme court, in two rulings related to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act	Struck down reform legislation	86
13483901686	During the progressive era, clubs for African American women	Frequently embraced controversial issues	87
13483901687	During the progressive era, the women suffrage movement	Became the single largest reform movement of the early twentieth century	88
13483901688	In regards to race during the progressive era	Both A and B	89
13483901689	While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that	American society was capable of improvement.	90
13483901690	The term "muckrakers" referred to	journalists.	91
13483901691	In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on	the Standard Oil trust.	92
13483901692	At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement	directed their attention to improving urban living conditions.	93
13483901693	The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of	social work.	94
13483901694	Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,	social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.	95
13483901695	During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of	All these answers are correct.	96
13483901696	Regarding divorce in the United States during the progressive era, by 1916	more than ten percent of all marriages ended in divorce.	97
13483901697	During the progressive era, clubs for African American women	often took anti-lynching and anti-segregation positions.	98
13483901698	During the Progressive Era, some supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters	deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women.	99
13483901699	In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,	All these answers are correct.	100
13483901700	Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, voter ballots were printed and distributed by	the political parties.	101
13483901701	During the progressive era, reformers of city government frequently tried to	hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.	102
13483901702	The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms primarily designed to weaken the power of	state legislatures.	103
13483901703	The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken	political parties.	104
13483901704	During the progressive era, political "interest groups"	rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.	105
13483901705	For western states, the most important target of reform energies was	the federal government, because it exerted great power in the western states.	106
13483901706	The temperance crusade	was supported by business employers.	107
13483901707	The temperance movement between 1914 and 1919	gained momentum as a result of World War I.	108
13483901708	In the early twentieth century, eugenics	supported the restriction of immigration by nationality.	109
13483901709	During the progressive era, the Socialist Party of America	grew stronger.	110
13483901710	During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was	Eugene V. Debs.	111
13483901711	During the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World	advocated a single union for all workers.	112
13483901712	World War I hurt the socialist movement in the United States	because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country.	113
13483901713	The brilliant lawyer Louis D. Brandies, who later became a Supreme Court justice, argued that the federal government should work to break up the largest corporations because the "curse of bigness"	All these answers are correct.	114
13483901714	During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,	he desired to win for government the power to investigate corporate activities.	115
13483901715	All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration EXCEPT the	Interstate Commerce Act.	116
13483901716	Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the	meatpacking industry.	117
13483901717	As an environmental conservationist, President Theodore Roosevelt	added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.	118
13483901718	In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft	was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.	119
13483901719	In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts	should be destroyed.	120
13483901720	In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress	passed a graduated income tax.	121
13483901721	The Federal Reserve Act	created a new type of paper currency.	122
13483901722	The Federal Trade Commission Act	created an agency to determine whether business practices were acceptable to the government.	123
13483901723	By the fall of 1914, President Woodrow Wilson	believed his reform program had largely been accomplished.	124
13483901724	The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating	child labor.	125
13483901725	European powers favored a civil war in the United States because	war would weaken the United States' power in the Western Hemisphere	126
13483901726	Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that	Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort	127
13483901727	Many Northerners were willing to allow Southern states to leave the Union until	the South attacked Fort Sumter	128
13483901728	The Border States offered all of the following EXCEPT	shipbuilding facilities	129
13483901729	Lincoln's declaration that the North sought to preserve the Union with or without slavery	revealed the influence of the Border States on his policies	130
13483901730	In return for support from the Plains Indians during the Civil War, the Union	waged war on them and herded them onto reservations	131
13483901731	To achieve its independence, the Confederacy had to	fight the invading Union army to a draw	132
13483901732	As the Civil War began, the South seemed to have the advantage of	more talented military leaders	133
13483901733	All of the following were similar characteristics that both Union and Confederate soldiers shared EXCEPT	poor unskilled workers were well represented among both armies	134
13483901734	Johnny Reb tended to be all of the following EXCEPT	detached personally from the war	135
13483901735	Billy Yank tended to be all of the following EXCEPT	religious	136
13483901736	The greatest weakness of the South during the Civil War was its	economy	137
13483901737	The North's greatest strength in the Civil War was its	economy	138
13483901738	Much of the hunger experienced by Confederate soldiers in the Civil War was due to	the South's rickety transportation system	139
13483901739	Northern soldiers eventually became known for their	discipline and determination	140
13483901740	to find effective high-level commanders, the union	used trial and error	141
13483901741	A supposed asset for the South at the beginning of the Civil War that never materialized to its real advantage was	intervention from Britain and France	142
13483901742	One reason that the British did not try to break the Union blockade of the South during the Civil War was that	they feared losing Northern grain shipments	143
13483901743	The South believed that the British would come to its aid because	Britain was dependent on the Southern colonies	144
13483901744	During the Civil War, Britain and the United States were nearly provoked into war by	the Trent affair, involving the removal of Southern diplomats from a British ships	145
13483901745	Confederate commerce-raiders such as the Alabama	proved effective against Union shipping	146
13483901746	The Confederacy's most effective commerce-raider was the	Alabama	147
13483901747	Napolean III's attempt to install Maximilian on the Mexican throne was a clear violation of	the Monroe-Doctrine	148
13483901748	France abandoned its attempt to control Mexico	when the United States threatened to force France to leave.	149
13483901749	During the Cvil War,	relations between the Union and Canada were at times very poor	150
13483901750	The Southern cause was weakened by	the concept of states' rights that the Confederacy professed.	151
13483901751	As leader of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis	defied rather than led public opinion	152
13483901752	The problems that Abraham Lincoln experienced as president were less prostrating than those experienced by Jefferson Davis partly because the North	had a long-established and fully recognized government	153
13483901753	As president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis did not exercise the arbitrary power wielded by Abraham Lincoln because	of the South's emphasis on states' rights	154
13483901754	To fill the army's demand for troops, the North relied mainly on	volunteers	155
13483901755	The Union's establishment of the National Banking System	was the first significant step toward a unified baking network since 1836	156