AHM 1020 Quiz 4 Study Guide for A or 90% and higher.

For Quiz 4 study guide for A or 90% and higher.

Why did millions of American farm families migrate westward from 1900 to 1910?

c. The availability of free land meant more opportunities for commercial farming in the West.

The Progressive movement drew its strength from

b. reformers and social scientists.

Life in the urban areas was characterized by

b. sharp inequalities.

During the Progressive era,

e. the United States received a large number of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe.

Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century is true?

b. The promise of mass consumption became the foundation for a new understanding of freedom.

“Birds of passage” were

d. immigrants who only lived in the United States temporarily.

During the Progressive era,

d. growing numbers of native

The term “Fordism”

e. describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

The “living wage” and the “American standard of living” were an outgrowth of

a. a mature consumer economy.

Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

d. Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.

In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for which of the following?

b. legislation to improve the condition of laborers.

The Industrial Workers of the World

e. advocated for a workers’ revolution.

Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1912 is correct?

d. Children of the striking workers publicly marched up New York’s Fifth Avenue.

What Progressive

era issue became a crossroads where the paths of labor radicals, cultural modernists, and feminists intersected?

Why did Progressive reformers think they had much to learn from Europe?

d. Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation.

Which of the following statements about urban Progressives is true?

d. They sought to improve public transportation.

Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers’ ideas on the political process?

d. Progressive reformers worked both to expand the electorate and to shrink its size through other measures.

What did passage of the Seventeenth Amendment entail?

e. U.S. senators were now chosen by popular vote.

Why did the women’s suffrage movement increasingly focus its attention on a national amendment to the Constitution?

a. State campaigns were difficult and often unsuccessful.

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court

b. argued that women were too weak to work long hours.

In his first term as president, what did Theodore Roosevelt use to challenge J. P. Morgan’s western railroads?

c. the Sherman Antitrust Act.

Why did businesses support the Pure Food and Drug Act?

d. They understood that greater public confidence in the quality of their products helped sales.

Why were many Americans drawn to the Socialist Party in the election of 1912?

e. The party’s proposal to nationalize railroads and banks, and to provide unemployment relief, expressed popular Progressive thought.

Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913?

e. The substantial reduction of duties on imports required Wilson to make up for lost revenue.

New employment opportunities for women during the Progressive era meant many women were able to

a. participate in the new consumer economy.

Which statement is true of the achievements of female reformers during the Progressive era?

d. They helped enact better sanitation codes and shorter working hours.

In what way did the conservation movement reflect the major principles of Progressivism?

d. It protected the public good against “special interests.”

Which statement is true of Native Americans during the Progressive era?

e. Some fought for citizenship and equal rights while others attempted to restore their land.

Establishing public playgrounds is an example of what element of the Progressive era?

b. local reform.