APUSH Ch. 28 Terms & Definitions for Political Science

All of the following contributed to the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment legislating Prohibition in 1919 EXCEPT

the high death toll from alcohol-related automobile accidents

The concerns Addams raises in the excerpt were most directly a reaction to which of the following?

Social injustice and rising economic inequality

The ideas expressed in the excerpt most clearly reflect the ideals of which of the following?

Progressivism

The methods used to express the ideas in the public service announcements have the most in common with those of female activists who

engaged in Progressive Era reform movements

Which of the following best characterizes the conservationist approach to the environment that emerged in the Progressive Era?

Designation of national parks and forests for recreation and managed use

In the excerpt, Coolidge was reacting most directly against

Progressive efforts to regulate the economy

People who shared Crocker's ideas at the time most typically sought to achieve their goals by

promoting federal legislation to protect the environment

Based on the excerpt, Marion Crocker was most likely

a Progressive Era reformer

In the decades following the Civil War, the woman's rights movement that began at Seneca Falls focused its energies most strongly on

achieving the right to vote

Around 1920, the number of children aged 10 to 15 in the industrial workforce began to decline for which of the following reasons?

States began to require children to attend school until a certain age and to limit the ages at which they could be employed.

W. E. B. Du Bois differed in philosophy from Booker T. Washington in that Du Bois believed

African Americans should pursue immediate and full equality

Which of the following best describes the relationship of ideas such as those in the excerpt to the broader Progressive reform movement of the era?

The ideas in the excerpt challenged the racial stereotypes held by many White Progressive reformers.

During Woodrow Wilson's administration, the federal government attempted to counteract the economic influence of big business by

establishing the Federal Trade Commission

Which of the following developments best represents a logical extension of the ideas expressed in the excerpt?

The expansion of participatory democracy in the Progressive Era

Which of the following arguments could best be supported by the purpose of the excerpt?

Reformers encouraged the more active protection of natural resources.

The excerpt could best be used to explain the significance of which of the following historical situations?

The role of journalism in reform movements

Which of the following arguments about Progressives could Muir's point of view best be used to support?

They were supportive of federal regulation of the economy in order to limit the impact of industrialization.

The use of images in the late 1800s and early 1900s such as the one shown had most in common with which of the following?

The reporting of journalists that raised public awareness of social injustices in United States cities

Advocates for individuals such as those shown in the photograph most likely would have agreed with which of the following perspectives?

That the government had an obligation to establish workplace safety standards

Conditions such as those shown in the photograph contributed most directly to which of the following?

Pressure from progressive activists to reform business practices

Which of the following was the most direct effect of the trend described in the excerpt?

The development of the Progressive movement to address social problems associated with industrial society

References to "household management," "the productive industries of commerce," and "order out of chaos" reflect the extension of which of the following into the home?

Progressive Era reforms

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives is a study of

immigrant urban poverty and despair in 1890's

The poster above advertising a 1913 labor union pageant was designed to do which of the following?

Portray the strikers as the heroic champions of workers and ordinary people

Jacob Riis's principal involvement in the reform movements of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was his effort to

publicize poor housing and sanitation in urban tenements

Jacob Riis is best known for his work in the 1890s as a

journalist and photographer who publicized the wretched conditions in which many immigrants lived

The term "muckrakers" was used in the early twentieth century to refer to

journalists who wrote articles exposing political corruption and urban poverty

One reason early twentieth century muckrakers were able to have a significant impact on society was because

sales and circulation of newspapers and magazines increased

The ideas of the Populist Party, as expressed in the excerpt, had the most in common with the ideas of the

Progressive movement

Which of the following emerged during the Progressive Era as the most influential advocate of full political, economic, and social equality for Black Americans?

W. E. B. Du Bois

Constitutional amendments enacted during the Progressive Era concerned all of the following EXCEPT

imposition of poll taxes

Although Progressive Era reformers held different opinions about many issues of the day, they shared a belief in

the capacity of trained professionals to find rational, scientific solutions to society's problems

A key goal of the Progressive movement was to

use government power to regulate industrial production and labor conditions

The excerpt suggests that Progressives in the early twentieth century most typically sought to

challenge political inequality

Which of the following groups is most credited with advancing Progressivism?

Middle-class women

Progressive reformers rejected Social Darwinism because they believed that

conflict and competition did not necessarily improve society

One of the principal reasons the "noble experiment" of Prohibition failed was that it led to an enormous increase in

law enforcement challenges

Which of the following is a major change in the status of women that occurred in the 1920s?

They began to vote in national elections.

The excerpt best reflects the development of which of the following?

The emergence of muckrakers who called for political change

Which of the following best reflects a continuity with the sentiments described in the excerpt?

Demands for increased government accountability during the New Deal

Sentiments such as those expressed in the excerpt contributed most directly to which of the following developments?

Passage of legislation expanding political power to citizens

Which of the following groups of people would have been most likely to oppose Taylor's management ideas?

Factory workers

Taylor's ideas expressed in the excerpt emerged most directly in response to which of the following developments in the United States?

The rise of industrial capitalism

President Theodore Roosevelt addressed all of the following issues during his presidency EXCEPT

insider trading on the stock market