Exam 20: The Progressives

As president, William Howard Taft found himself pleasing the progressives and alienating the conservatives within his own party.

In 1902, President Roosevelt intervened in a strike involving the ________ industry.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

During the progressive era, some professionals used their entrance requirements to exclude blacks, women, immigrants, and other "undesirables" from their ranks.

Robert La Follette wanted to make the state of ________ into a "laboratory of progressivism."

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the

The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating

At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

During the progressive era, reformers of city government frequently tried to

As president, Theodore Roosevelt quickly rebelled against the leaders of his party.

While running for the presidency in 1912, Woodrow Wilson presented a progressive program that came to be called the "New ________."

In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

Former "mugwumps" became important supporters of progressive political reform activity.

In the controversy between Gifford Pinchot and Richard Ballinger, President Taft supported Ballinger.

In the twentieth century, ________ was the first state to extend to women the right to vote.

Many progressives, such as Lincoln Steffens, believed that the first target of reform should be

How would you define progressivism and describe its major characteristics?

During the progressive era, political "interest groups"

During the progressive era, employers were generally unconcerned about the problem of alcohol.

The Sierra Club was founded by