Moist Paper Towel
Unlock all answers in this set
Unlock answersquestion
Muckraking author of \"The History of Standard Oil\"
answer
E. Ida Tarbell
question
Preservationist essayist and environmentalist
answer
AE. John Muir
question
African American reformer who argued that blacks should seek to attain positions of authority
answer
AB. W.E.B. Dubois
question
Was arrested for obscenity when she advocated that women have access to birth control
answer
A. Margaret Sanger
question
African American reformer and founder of the Tuskegee Institute' proponent of technical jobs
answer
AC. B.T. Washington
question
Founder of Hull House and proponent of settlement houses more generally
answer
D. Jane Addams
question
Exposed dangers of child labor and working conditions in NY garment industry; wanted 8 hour day
answer
C. Florence Kelley
question
Term used to describe segregation and discrimination laws in early 20th century South
answer
B. Jim Crow
question
TR's choice to head the US Forest Service, said the \"Wilderness is waste\"
answer
AD. Gifford Pinchot
question
This amendment made Prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages
answer
C. 18th Amendment
question
This amendment granted women the right to vote
answer
D. 19th Amendment
question
This amendment allowed for the direct election of senators
answer
B. 17th Amendment
question
Was only the second Democrat to win the presidency since J. Buchanan
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Made his name by fighting in the Spanish-American War
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Presided over the creation of the Federal Reserve
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Presided over the extension of the right to vote to women
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Once got stuck in a bathtub
answer
C. W H Taft
question
Was a sickly child from a prominent NY family
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Was one of the first presidents to concern himself with the environment
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Ran for president as a member of the Bull moose Party
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Was the Republican Party nominee when the Republican Party split
answer
C. W H Taft
question
Helped pass the Underwood Tariff Act which lowered tariffs from 41% to 29%
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Helped pass the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Fired G. Pinchot because Pinchot refused to take orders from the Secretary of the Interior
answer
C. W H Taft
question
Took office when McKinley was assassinated
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Socialist candidate in 1912
answer
D. E V Debbs
question
Placated the conservative Republicans by agreeing the Payne-Aldridge Tariff
answer
C. W H Taft
question
Broke up the Northern Securities Company
answer
B. T Roosevelt
question
Paid for the reductions in tariffs by implementing a graduated income tax
answer
A. W Wilson
question
Progressives tended to support each of the following types of political reform except...
answer
E. Graft
question
True or False? Progressives like Jane Addams were less critical of the political machines than they were of big business because the machines were trying to solve the problems in the cities
answer
False
question
True or False? Progressives sought to solve the problems by turning to experts and using more scientific approach to investigate problems and solutions
answer
True
question
The Elkins Act and the Hepburn Act both aimed to regulate...
answer
C. Railroads
question
Each of the following emerged as new disciplines in early 20th higher education except...
answer
B. History
question
Each statement is true of education in the early 20th century except...
answer
D. All public schools became racially integrated
question
The Progressive movement was led primarily by which of the following groups
answer
E. Urban Middle Class
question
Each statement is true regarding journalism in the late 19th century except...
answer
C. Reinforced the status quo because papers were controlled by big business
question
Which publication dominated the magazine industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries
answer
A. McClure's
question
Which of the following congressional acts was a response to the publication of Upton Sinclair's Jungle
answer
B. Meat Inspection Act
question
Plessy vs. Ferguson
answer
D. set precedent for separate but equal institutions
question
The temperance movement became known as the prohibition movement as it...
answer
B. became more political
question
Women sought to achieve suffrage in each of the following ways except...
answer
D. by boycott
question
The Clayton Anti-Trust Law is known as the Magna Carta for which group because it finally brought this group the protection that it lacked under the previous Sherman Anti-Trust Law
answer
C. Unions
question
A graduated income tax is different from a regular income tax in that it...
answer
C. allows for higher rates to be levied against those who make more money
question
The Bull Moose Party was upset with the Republicans for...
answer
A. not enacting enough populist and progressive style reform
