Chapter 18 Part 1 – Flashcards
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The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:
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brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much-needed safety legislation
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The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on:
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city life
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The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:
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as a way of describing a broad, loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups
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The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
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middle-class reformers
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Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
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muckrakers
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All of the following are regions where people migrated to in large numbers between 1840 and 1914 EXCEPT:
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China.
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All of the following people were "muckrackers" EXCEPT:
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Samuel Gompers
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The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:
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Upton Sinclair
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During the Progressive era:
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new immigration from southern and eastern Europe reached its peak.
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Progressive-era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces EXCEPT:
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the annexation of the Philippines
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Which was the Ellis Island of the West?
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Angel Island
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Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early twentieth century:
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clustered in the West as agricultural workers.
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Birds of passage were:
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immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland
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Which institution became a pillar of stability for the immigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities?
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Church
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All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century are true EXCEPT:
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southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society
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Vaudeville is a:
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form of live entertainment.
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Nickelodeons:
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were motion-picture theaters with a five-cent admission charge
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:
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the workplace
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The term "Fordism":
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describes as economic system based on mass production and mass consumption
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The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":
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allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power
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The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called:
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scientific management
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Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?
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Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions
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A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a:
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scab
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Which person was a Supreme Court justice and a Progressive reformer who advocated for the labor movement?
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Louis Brandeis
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In the early twentieth century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following EXCEPT:
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national health insurance
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By 1912, the Socialist Party:
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had elected scores of local officials
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Eugene V. Debs was:
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a Socialist candidate for president.
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The Industrial Workers of the World:
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advocated a workers' revolution
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What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?
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The appearance of malnourished children evacuated from Lawrence shocked the public.
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The Ludlow Massacre was a tragic confrontation between:
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Colorado mine workers and militia
