HIST_1306 Chapter 18
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Most settlement houses were staffed by
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middle-class women.
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Her researched study of Standard Oil alerted the public to the corporation's vast power, and explained the ruthless methods used by John D. Rockefeller in his rise to wealth
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Ida Tarbell
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The American Federation of Labor
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primarily represented skilled workers
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William Howard Taft's support for the Sixteenth Amendment opened a period when
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the federal government expanded its activities and responsibilities
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In Lochner v. New York the Supreme Court ruled that
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none of the above
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In deciding the Lochner case, in which the plaintiff challenged a New York law setting maximum hours for workers, the Supreme Court ruled that
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no state could limit an individual's right to buy or sell labor in nonhazardous occupations
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Identify the creator and leader of the American Socialist Party who got nearly 1 million votes in the presidential election of 1912
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Eugene Debs
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During the presidency of William Howard Taft
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the Republican Party split into two factions
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A supporter of temperance believed that
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consumption of alcohol was sinful
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Which work of literature was authored by a muckraker?
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The Jungle
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The \"progressive movement\" was driven by
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a general belief that moderate reforms were needed to help end social disorder.
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Carry Nation used a hatchet in her campaign against
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alcohol consumption.
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Which event did NOT happen in the nineteenth century?
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the Souls of Black Folk is published
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Booker T. Washington's \"Atlanta Exposition Speech\" accepted segregation if
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whites would end lynching
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The International Workers of the World formed in
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1905
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Who was NOT a candidate for president in 1912
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William Jennings Bryan
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American workers were drawn to the American Federation of Labor's
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emphasis on collective bargaining
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A peak of anti-union violence occurred when
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John D. Rockefeller ordered that striking miners, and their families, be shot and burned
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Which headline would have appeared first?
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\"Nation Mourns the Assassination of McKinley\"
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Leaders of the Social Gospel movement sought to
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introduce religious ethics to industrial relations
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Which statement best describes Woodrow Wilson's style as president?
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He built upon Roosevelt's model of strong executive authority
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The use of sweatshops was most common in
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the garment industry
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The main goal of the muckrakers was to
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raise the public's awareness of social problems
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Cartoonists who opposed Standard Oil represented it as
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an octopus
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Woodrow Wilson sought to reform banking primarily through the
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Federal Reserve Act
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In which decade did the NAACP form?
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1900-1909
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The Federal Trade Commission
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regulated business practices that were subject to court review.
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Regarding how humans should deal with the natural world, Theodore Roosevelt can best be classified a/an
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conservationist
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A photographer who documented conditions of child labor was
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Lewis Hine
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Public outrage against unsafe working conditions peaked when
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young female workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire
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Most American socialists advocated for
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all of the above
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Booker T. Washington believed that race relations would improve
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gradually if blacks remained patient
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The Seventeenth Amendment
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provided for the direct popular election of U.S. senators
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Theodore Roosevelt's reform philosophy resembles that of
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none of the above
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The photograph of the black carpenters finishing a stairway was originally used to
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counter stereotypes of blacks as lazy or dangerous
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom rejected what he analyzed as Theodore Roosevelt's
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regulated monopoly
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Which event happened last?
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the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is formed
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By 1900, legislative acts that regulated the horrors of child labor were
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not effectively enforced by authorities
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Since overruling the Lochner decision in 1937, the Supreme Court has
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struggled with assorted controversies arising out of workplace regulation
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W. E. B. Du Bois's critique of Booker T. Washington's approach to race relations
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points out its faults without offering a realistic alternative.
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Telltale elements in the Sadie Pfiefer photograph include each of the following except
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a supervisor armed with a whip
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W.E.B. Du Bois emphasized all of the following ideas EXCEPT
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Booker T. Washington's defiance should be replaced with passive acceptance
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Frederick Taylor's scientific management emphasized all of the following ideas EXCEPT
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providing more autonomy for the factory laborer
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Proponents of the Social Gospel believed which of the following ideas?
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promoting the role of Christianity in addressing social problems
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This Republican incumbent was defeated in 1912 when his party split into progressive and traditional factions
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William Howard Taft
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This Republican progressive from Wisconsin, along with Theodore Roosevelt, began the progressive revolt within the party before the election of 1912.
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Robert La Follette
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In his 1895 \"Atlanta Exposition Address,\" Booker T. Washington asserted each of the following except
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black Americans must eventually be given full social and legal equality.
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focused on the problems of
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meatpacking plants
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The International Workers of the World differed from the A.F.L. by
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organizing all types of workers from a wide variety of ethnic groups
