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The Oregon system included all of the following reforms except: a. primary elections b. city managers gov. c. referendum d. recall
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B. city managers gov
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Progressives feared all of the following except
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A government active in the economic, social, and cultural spheres
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Carrie Chapman Catt's National American Woman's Suffrage Association argued that women should vote because
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They were more moral than men and their votes would purify politics
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The "Wobblies"
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Were members of a radical labor union believed to practice sabotage and other forms of violence
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Progressives evinced a firm belief in: a.democracy b. efficiency c. the malleability of human nature d a,b, and c
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D. a,b,c
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President William Howard Taft: a. prosecuted more trusts than Theodore Roosevelt did. b. lowered the tariff more drastically than Roosevelt did. c. was a better friend to conservationists than Roosevelt had been. d. was more popular than Roosevelt had been. e. all the above
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The Meat Inspection Act of 1906: a. represented a significant expansion of government intervention in the economy. b. provided federal meat inspectors for slaughterhouses. c. helped big meat packers in the long run. d. was a new direction for the gov't. e. all the choices
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The Hepburn Act: a. created the ICC b. gave the Interstate Commerece Commission greater powers with which to regulate railroads c. provided federal inspection of meat packing d. created guildlines that actually drove smaller meat packers out of business
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B. gave the Interstate Commerce Commission greater powers with which to regulate the railroads
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In the presidential election campaign of 1912, Woodrow Wilson: a. was committed to more radical social reform than Roosevelt was. b. advocated the expansion of federal power. c. believed that govt needed to break up trusts ensure free competition. d. wanted to improve the condition of African Americans. e. all the choices
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Theodore Roosevelt's suit against the Northern Securities Company earned him the nickname
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Trustbuster
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Progressives were typically
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Supporters of activist, assertive government.
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Progressivism as a "good government" movement made its appearance in the 1890s in
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Cities
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On the race question, progressivism: a. gave birth to NAACP b. included racists among it prominent adherents c. was ambivalent and evasive d. a, b, and c
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D. a,b,c
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Typically, progressives were all of the following except
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All of the following are true of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair except that
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Was ghostwritten by Ida M. Tarbell.
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