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American Pageant 16th Edition By David M. Kennedy

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Chapter_28_Progressivism_and_the_Republican_Roosevelt_1901_1912 (1)

 

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72. Progressivism

  a. was closely tied to the feminist movement and women’s causes.
  b. offered little to the growing women’s movement.
  c. supported better treatment of women but not women’s suffrage.
  d. saw racial issues as more important than women’s issues.
  e. reflected the opinions and views of white working-class women and men on how to achieve social and political reforms.

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Progressive Roots

 

73. Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

  a. the need to assert female power against male oppression.
  b. America’s need to catch up with more progressive European nations.
  c. women’s need for more opportunities to work outside the home to support their families.
  d. the harsh treatment of working women by employers.
  e. their being essentially an extension of women’s traditional roles as wives and mothers.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Progressive Women

 

74. The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was

  a. Reform Judaism.
  b. the missionary movement.
  c. conservative evangelicalism.
  d. the social gospel.
  e. the Catholic Action movement.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Progressive Roots

 

75. Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé.

A. David G. Phillips 1. the United States Senate
B. Ida Tarbell 2. the Standard Oil Company
C. Lincoln Steffens 3. city governments
D. Ray Stannard Baker 4. the condition of blacks

 

  a. A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4
  b. A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1
  c. A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4
  d. A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1
  e. A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

 

ANSWER:   a
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Raking the Muck with the Muckrakers

 

76. Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

  a. exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires’ club.
  b. exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas.
  c. uncovered the corruption and collusion between municipal government and the Standard Oil Company.
  d. uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery.
  e. unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

 

ANSWER:   e
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Raking the Muck with the Muckrakers

 

77. Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to

  a. formulate a consistent philosophy of social reform.
  b. explain the causes of social ills.
  c. devise solutions to society’s problems.
  d. make the public aware of social problems.
  e. link up with movements for social justice.

 

ANSWER:   d
POINTS:   1
REFERENCES:   Raking the Muck with Muckrakers

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