Studied by 4 peopleDuring the progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to
consumer products
Which of the following individuals was a muckraker
Upton Sinclair
The Keating-Owen Act of 1916
Outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce
During the Progressive era, the largest city in the United States was
New York
President Theodore Roosevelt’s reform program was called the
Square Deal
Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911
It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice
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 term “progressive” that came into common use around 1910 describes
A loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life
From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately
halved
Which of the following can be associated with the decline of the Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
The phrase that best captures the vision of the Knights of Labor is
“Cooperative commonwealth”
The event marking the end of four centuries of armed conflict between the continent’s native population and European settlers and their descendants was called
Wounded Knee
The author of How the Other Half Lives (1890) was
Jacob Riis
In the late 1800s, this geographic area experienced the most dramatic growth in capitalism
Land west of the Mississippi River
Founded in 1867, this group was critical of railroad companies and moved to establish cooperatives for storing and marketing farm output in the hope of forcing freight carries to reduce shipping costs
The Grange
Among the following, who was a “captain of industry”?
Andrew Carnegie
What was the name of the organization that sought to organize both skilled and unskilled workers, women as well as men, blacks along with whites, and achieved a membership of nearly 800,000 in 1886
Knights of Labor
Which of the following were sources of violence in America during the Gilded Age?
White supremacist southern attacks on African Americans
William “Buffalo Bill” Cody was
An entertainer who had a traveling show showcasing reenactments of battles with Indians
In 1903, for the first time in U.S. history, Congress passed a law declaring that a person holding a specific political viewpoint could be banned from entering the nation. These were the
Anarchists
What product ultimately led the United States in part to annex the Hawaiian islands in the late 1890s
sugar
What were critics of immigration worried about during this time period?
declining birth rate among white women
The congressman from Nebraska who was the Democratic Party nominee for president in 1896 and who called for the “free coinage” of silver was
William Jennings Bryan
What was the name of 1899 policy established by Secretary of Sate John Hay regarding China
The Open Door policy
In February 1898, what ship exploded in Havana Harbor with a loss of nearly 270 lives?
The battleship Maine
What landmark United States Supreme Court decision gave approval to state laws requiring sepera
Plessy V. Ferguson
The 1892 People’s Party platform, written by Ignatius Donnelly and adopted at the party’s Omaha convention, proposed
Direct election of United States Senators
The Women’s Christian Temperance Union began by demanding the prohibition of alcoholic drinks, but developed into an organization
calling for economic and political reforms, including the right to vote
What was the name of the labor organization of principally white, male, skilled workers that arose in the 1880s and was headed by Samuel Gompers?
The American Federation of Labor
During the Progressive era, economic production shifted from capital goods to
consumer products
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
A muckraker
Upton Sinclair
The Keating-Owen Act of 1916
outlawed child labor in the manufacture of goods sold in interstate commerce
During the Progressive era, the largest city in the United States was
New York
President Theodore Roosevelt’s reform program was called the
Square Deal
Why did the Society of American Indians form in 1911?
It was formed to provide Native Americans with remedies for social injustice
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 tern “Progressive” that came into common use around 1910 describes
A loosely defined political movement of people who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life
From 1910 to 1916, the price of a Model T automobile approximately
halved
Which of the following U.S. government policies arose from the eugenics movement?
The increase of immigration restriction
A leading characterization of U.S. foreign policy in the early twentieth century was
Dollar Diplomacy
President Wilson articulated the clearest statement of American war aims and his vision of a new postwar international order in
The Fourteen Points
In 1916, President Wilson sent more that 10,000 troops into Mexico to arrest
“Pancho” Villa, who had killed seventeen Americans in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico
The worst race riot in American history occurred in 1921, when more than 300 blacks were killed and over 10,000 were left homeless after white mobs burned an all-black section of which city to the ground?
Tulsa, Oklahoma
What was the West African proverb that President Theodore Roosevelt was fond of?
Speak softly and carry a big stick
Who was the leader of the National Woman’s Party, an organization that employed militant tactics in favor of women’s suffrage?
Alice Paul
What group of people outside of the United States in the 1920s and 1930s carefully studied the American eugenicist movement?
German members of the Nazi Party
During World War I, Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire were called
The Central Powers
This federal agency presided over all elements of war production from the distribution of raw materials to the prices of manufactured goods
War Industries Board
Vertical integration
Company’s avoidance of middlemen by producing its own supplies and providing for distribution of its product
Trusts
Companies combined to limit competition
Horizontal expansion
The process by which a corporation acquires or merges with its competitors
Robber Barons
Captains of industry, control over entire industries
The Gilded Age
Period after the Civil War
Social Darwinism
Justify class distictions and to expand poverty
Great Railroad Strike
support of striking railroad workers in Martinsburg, West Virginia, who refused to work due to wage cuts
Knights of Labor
Founded in 1869, First national union
Single tax
Concept of taxing only landowners as a remedy for poverty
Social Gospel
Advocated the application of Christian principles to social problems generated by industrialization
Haymarket Affair
Violence during an anarchist protest at Haymarket Square in Chicago, led to trial of eight anarchist leaders for conspiracy to commit murder
Bonanza farms
Large farms that covered thousands of acres and employed hundreds of wage laborers in the West
The Little Bighorn, Battle of
Famous battle of the Great Sioux War; combined Sioux and Cheyenne warriors massacred by U.S. Cavalry
Dawes Act
Encourage adoption of white norms among Indians
Ghost Dance
intended to connect the living with the dead and make the Indians bulletproof in battles intended to restore their homelands
Wounded Knee massacre
U.S. Cavalry killed over 200 Sioux
Gold standard
Policy at various points in American history by which the value of a dollar is set to fixed price in terms of gold
Civil Service Act of 1883
Law that established the Civil Service Commission and marked the end of the spoils system
Interstate Commerce Commission
Organization established by Congress, in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Wabash Railroad v. Illinois in order to curb abuses in the railroad industry
Sherman Antitrust Act
First law to restrict monopolistic trusts and business combination
‘To My Old Master’
Was about a freed slave who’s slave owner wanted him to come back to work but get paid this time
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