1. c A. Geography B. A common political party C. Their occupation D. A desire to improve society
2. During the early 1900s, poor
children seldon benefited from public education because they
A. could not afford tuition
B. were not permitted to enroll
C. were forced to attend private
schools
D. often had to work to help their
families
3. Probably the most emotional
progressive labor reform was the
A. effort to reduce working hours
B. campaign against child labor
C. struggle for higher wages for
skilled workers
D. campaign against women in the
workplace
4. The NAACP grew out of the ideas
of
A. W.E.B. Du Bois
B. Booker T. Washington
C. The Tuskegee Institute
D. Woodrow Wilson
5. The billionaire financier who
helped construct major trusts was
A. John Mitchell
B. George f. Baer
C. J. Piermont Morgan
D. Elihu Root
6. Roosevelt used his office to
end a strike of
A. coal workers
B. steel workers
C. railroad workers
D. textile workers
7. Upton Sinclair’s novel
“The Jungle” led to reform in the
A. steel industry
B. food and meat-packing industry
C. railroad industry
D. cosmetic business
8. Theodore Roosevelt’s attitude
toward trusts was that
A. All trusts were harmful and
should be broken up
B. trusts were evidence of the
strength of the American business and should be encouraged
C. trusts that worked outside the
law should be quickly brought to justice
D. the government should be
careful not to offend the owners of powerful trusts.
9. Robert La Follette said
Roosevelt would probably be remembered for
A. keeping the peace
B. breaking up trusts
C. promoting conservation
D. settling strikes
10. Taft’s true ambition lay in
the
A. legislative branch
B. executive branch
C. judicial branch
D. diplomatic service
11. The Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy caused the public to believe that President Taft did not care about
A. conservation
B. unskilled workers
C. farmers
D. civil rights
12. William Howard Taft’s
administration
A. accomplished little toward
reform
B. achieved a reputation for
reform but accomplished little
C. was widely praised for its
reform achievements
D. was remembered more for its
failures than its achievements
13. Theodore Roosevelt returned to
national politics because
A. he had been unsuccessful in
business ventures
B. he was disappointed in Taft’s
performance
C. the Republican party asked him
to run again
D. Taft refused to support the
Square Deal.
14. The real battle in the
election of 1912 was between
A. Taft and Wilson
B. Roosevelt and Wilson
C. Roosevelt and Taft
D. Debs and Wilson
15. By bolting from the Republican
party, Roosevelt
A. gave people a clear choice for
progressive reform
B. assured the election of a
Democratic president
C. improved Taft’s support among
Republicans
D. brought together all
progressives under one banner
16. Unlike Roosevelt, Wilson
wanted to
A. restore free competition by
destroying monopolies
B. create a more powerful
government to control trusts
C. allow economic forces freedom
from government interference
D. support progressive reforms by
federal power
17. The Underwood Tariff Act
included a provision for
A. levying an income tax
B. increasing the sales tax
C. raising duties
D. creating monopolies
18. The Clayton Act prohibited all
of the following except
A. ruinous price cutting
B. operation of labor union
C. “tying” of contracts
D. interlocking directorates
19. President Wilson actually set
back reforms previously benefiting
A. children
B. farmers
C. African Americans
D. immigrants
20. The Federal Reserve Act gave
the national government control over
A. national parks and forests
B. trusts
C. the armed services
D. banking and the money supply
21. A 1904 study estimated that 10
million Americans were
A. immensely rich
B. underfed, underclothed, and
poorly housed
C. living in comfort
D. able to purchase an automobile
22. As a result of Progressive
reforms in education
A. the school year was shortened
B. the curriculum became more
traditional
C. the number of high schools went
up slightly
D. laws were passed requiring
attendance
23. Most progressive reformers
were
A. recent immigrants
B. middle-class urban
professionals
C. legislators in local
governments
D. from religious backgrounds
24. Progressive leadership was
A. primarily within the Republican
party
B. primarily within the Democratic
party
C. broad based, largely
unorganizaed, urban, and professional
D. tight knit, from small towns,
and socialist oriented
25. Reforms in consumer
protections included
A. the end of the
“millionaires club”
B. the adoption of temporance laws
C. the passage of the pure food
and Drug Act
D. workers’ compensation laws.
26. Abolishing the “free
pass” to politicians and others was one way that the Hepburn act of 1906
strengthened the
A. Interstate Commerce Act of 1887
B. Clayton Antitrust Act
C. Highways Act
D. Expedition Act
27. Many people including
President Taft, believed that high tariff rates encouraged
A. fair business practices
B. monopolies
C. price decreases
D. a decrease in the cost of
living
28. One reason the public thought
that Taft was attacking the conservation movement was because Taft
A. failed to support the speaker
of the House
B. vetoed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff
C. supported Ballinger against
Pinchot
D. supported the direct election
of U.S. senators
29. Wilson claimed that lower
tariff rates would help businesses by
A. closing American markets to
foreign products
B. increasing prices of goods
C. creating a surplus of goods
D. opening foreign markets to
American goods.
30. The Clayton Antitrust Act lost
most of its effectiveness partly because of
A. lack of enforcement by the
federal courts
B. precise wording
C. its unfavorable attitude toward
trade unions
D. unfavorable interpretations by
the federal courts
31. African American leaders who
supported Wilson in the 1912 election later turned against him because he
A. focused too heavily on foreign
affairs
B. was a segregationist
C. failed to stop lynchings in the
South
D. did not promote progressive
reforms
32. President Roosevelt believed
that trusts
A. should all be busted
B. should be regulated
C. could not be all be made to
obey the law
D. did not prevent the growth of
monopolies
33. Chief Forester Pinchot accused
Secretary of Interior Ballinger of
A. fraud in opening public lands
for sale
B. siding with the old Guard in
congress
C. accepting bribes from the
timber lobby
D. wasting money on irrigation
projects
34. The Roosevelt administration
helped end the 1902 strike by
A. backing the mineowner’s
position
B. seizing the mine with federal
troops
C. putting pressure on the owners
to back down
D. ordering the miners back to
work
35. The 12 Federal reserve banks
serve the financial needs of
A. only large corporations
B. all corporate and individual
customers
C. only national banks and other
member bans
D. only the Federal treasury
36. Roosevelt’s interest in
conservation measures came as a result of
A. pressure from Old Guard leaders
B. his deep love of the wilderness
C. the influence of cattle and
mining lobbies
D. his sense of public opinion
37. The phrase “strong as a
bull moose” refers to
A. Cannon’s victory over the
Insurgents
B. Taft’s support of the
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
C. Wilson’s moral earnestness
D. Roosevelt’s comment on his 1912
candidacy
38. The 1902 coal strike
represented a turning point in labor history because it was the first time a
President
A. used his powers to negotiate a
settlement
B. sent federal troops to fight
the striking workers
C. closed an essential industr
D. ordered the miners back to work
39. A major difference between
Roosevelt and Taft was that Taft
A. opposed a graduated income tac
B. did not practice strong
presidential leadership
C. did not work to end trusts
D. refused to speak out for
progressive reforms
40. The President who became known
as the Professor in politics was
A. William Howard Taft
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. William McKinley
D. Woodrow Wilson
41. The effects of rapid
urbanization of American cities contributed to the beginnings of the
prigressive movement, in large part because
A. cities could not meet the needs
of a growing population
B. reformers were against big
industry
C. indistries brought needed
changes to urban centers
D. progressives believed that
unions should include skilled workers only
42. The efforts of Florence Kelley
convinced many states to abolish
A. child labor
B. direct primaries
C. minimum wage legislation
D. single-tax colonies
43. President Taft continued
Roosevelt’s progressive program by
A. actively promoting women’s
right to vote
B. pursuing antitrust cases
C. selling several million acres
of Alaska’s public lands
D. abolishing Jim Crow practices
in federal offices
44. President Wilson established
the Federal Reserve system to
A. reorganize the federal bamking
system
B. enforce the Clayton Antitrust
Act
C. make federal loans available to
farmers
D. end child labor in all states
45. A basic anti-suffrage argument
was that women would
A. prevent prohibition
B. fail to exercise their voting
rights
C. became too masculine
D. refuse to pay taxes
46. Which adment gives voters the
power to elect their senators directly?
A. Sixteenth
B. Twentieth
C. Nineteeth
D. Seventeenth
47. Which amendment allows
Congress to levy taxes on an individuals income?
A. 16th
B. 20th
C. 19th
D. 17th
48. In 1904, the Square Deal became
the campaign slogan of
A. William Jennings Bryan
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. William McKinley
D. William Howard Taft
49. The Miami-Elkins Act was
passed to regulate
A. banks
B. the meat-packing industry
C. political parties
D. telephone and telegraph
companies
50. The Federal reserve Act of
1913 partifcularly aided
A. large companies
B.small banks
C. farmers
D. conservative business groups.
