SJA APUSH Period 7 (Part 1) Questions
and Answers 2024/2025
The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
a. military leaders
b. farmers
c. socialists
d. big business
e. middle-class reformers
e. middle-class reformers
Compared to the American Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World union
was conservative for its day.
False
Jane Addams:
a. was a birth-control advocate
b. believed in Social Darwinism
c. was an economist
d. supported anti-immigrant legislation
e. advocated for the working poor
e. advocated for the working poor
The word "Progressivism" came into common use around 1910:
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a. as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement
b. as another term for socialism
c. denoting a group that appealed only to women
d. and represented those who advocated revolution
e. as an antibusiness term
a. as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement
During the Progressive era, the working woman became a symbol of female emancipation.
True
All of the following statements about urban Progressives are true EXCEPT that:
a. they sought to improve public transportation
b. they sought to establish public control of gas and water works
c. they worked with political machines
d. they raised taxes to increase spending on schools and parks
e. they worked to reform the structure of government
c. they worked with political machines
During the Progressive era:
a. social reformers concentrated their efforts on rural areas
b. urban development highlighted social inequalities
c. cities competed with rural areas for government projects
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d. cities declined in importance
e. cities attracted only the wealthy
b. urban development highlighted social inequalities
During the Progressive era:
a. most African-American women worked in factories
b. the number of married women working declined
c. growing numbers of native-born white women worked as domestics
d. growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices
e. most eastern European immigrant women worked as telephone operators
d. growing numbers of native-born white women worked in offices
Once in office, Woodrow Wilson was a fierce trustbuster, dismantling more than twenty
monopolies.
False
All of the following statements about Jane Addams and Hull House are true EXCEPT that:
a. Addams opposed government intervention in regards to workplace safety
b. Addams established employment bureaus and health clinics
c. Addams built kindergartens for immigrant children
d. Hull House was modeled on a settlement house in London
e. Hull House and other settlement houses provided careers for the "new woman."
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