Exam 20: The Progressives

President Roosevelt moved to ease the Panic of 1907 by agreeing to the purchase of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by ________.

The new middle class of the turn of the century placed a high value on moral values,but not on formal education.

During the progressive era,clubs for African American women

At the turn of the twentieth century,progressive activists

What social attitudes in America worked for and against the concept of women having the right to vote?

Progressive reforms tended to increase voter turnout in presidential elections.

Describe and evaluate the ideas of Booker T.Washington and W.E.B.Du Bois.In your opinion,which of these two men had the better plan,and why?

Many progressive reformers agreed that the growth of immigration had created social problems in American cities.

President Roosevelt's handpicked successor was ________.

During Theodore Roosevelt's first three years as president,

The first director of the National Forest Service was

In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts

In the 1912 presidential election results,

By 1911,the Women's Christian ________ Union had 245,000 members and had become the single largest women's organization in American history to that point.

The political popularity of the Socialist Party peaked shortly after the end of World War I.

The urban political machine was a good source of jobs for newer immigrants.

The urban political machine Tammany Hall grew increasingly interested in progressive reform during the progressive era.

Thorstein Veblen argued that

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

The secret ballot enhanced the power of the two-party system over the average voter.