APUSH UNIT 7 PRACTICE TEST|UPDATED&VERIFIED|GUARANTEED SUCCESS

The "real heart" of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to use the government as an agency of human welfare The political roots of the progressive movement lay in the greenback labor party and the populists Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen B. Jack London C. Jacob Riis D. Henry Demarest Lloyd 1. "bloated trusts" 2. slum conditions 3. "conspicuous consumption" 4. destruction of nature A:3, B:4, C:2, D:1 Progressivism was less a minority movement and more a majority mood. strong political overtones, and it rejected the church as the driving force for change Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. A. David G. Phillips B. Ida Tarbell C. Lincoln Steffens D. Ray Stannard Baker 1. the United States Senate 2. the Standard Oil Company 3. city governments 4. the condition of blacks A:1, B:2, C:3, D:4 Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled "The Shame of the Cities," unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government. The muckrakers signified much about the nature of the progressive reform movement because they sought not to overthrow capitalism but to cleanse it with democratic controls Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to make the public aware of social problems The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was women's christian temperance union Progressive reformers were mainly men and women from the middle class who felt pressure from new giant corporations, restless immigrant hordes, and the aggressive labor unions Political progressivism emerged in both major parties, in all regions, at all levels of government According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was more democracy To regain the power that the people had lost to the "interests," progressives advocated all of the following initiative, referendum,recall, direct election of U.S. senators All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives to use state power to curb the trusts and to stem the socialist threat by generally improving the common person's conditions of life and labor, rooting out graft The progressive movement was instrumental in getting the Seventeenth amendment added to the Constitution, which provided for _______________ direct election of United States senators The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they exposed middle-class women to problems in cities: poverty, corruption, and conditions the following was among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement? preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops, creating pensions for mothers with dependent children, insuring that food products were healthy and safe, attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements except: ending special regulations governing women in the workplace In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that female workers required special protection on the job The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass restrictions on female employment in the clothing industry The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because the Supreme Court in its ruling declaring a law limiting work to 10 hours a day unconstitutional