Chapter 21: Homework
Answer both the Short Answer and the Review Questions; the vocabulary has been provided for you to study. Submit your answers to the dropbox labeled Chapter 21 Homework. I will provide answers to you after your submission for you to use to study. You will be graded on your effort. By submitting the work, you are agreeing that this is your work and you have not worked with another student or copied their work. You may submit up to the deadline but NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)
- What types of people were drawn to the progressive movement and what motivated them?
- How did progressives justify their demand for more activist government?
Homework Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple choice questions)
- What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?
- Describe the progressives that influenced the United States during the years between 1890 and 1916.
- What did the social gospel movement of the late nineteenth century advocate?
- What did American women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries conclude about the settlement house movement?
- The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stigmatized ____________________.
- What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?
- What did lawyers use the mass of sociological evidence in the 1908 Muller v. Oregon case to demonstrate?
- What idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?
- Elevating productivity and efficiency but alienating the working class, Frederick Winslow Taylor pioneered the practice of _______________________.
- What assumption lay at the foundation of the American progressive agenda in the early twentieth century?
- According to Theodore Roosevelt, what was the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901?
- Taken together, what did President Roosevelt’s actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrate about the U.S. government?
- What were muckrakers known for?
- What did J. P. Morgan receive in return for his actions in the panic of 1907?
- How did President Theodore Roosevelt impact land conservation during his administration?
- Describe the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century.
- What did the U.S. do to obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903? \
- What role did the U.S. take on due to the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
- Describe a significant difference between William Howard Taft’s presidency and Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency.
- Describe President Taft’s dollar diplomacy in the Caribbean.
- What factor explained Woodrow Wilson’s victory in the 1912 presidential election?
- To compensate for the revenue that would be lost as a result of the new Underwood tariff, in 1913 the House of Representatives passed ___________________.
- Describe the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.
- Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor’s demand for an end to injunctions during his first term as president because he__________________.
- Why did President Wilson champion the Keating-Owen child labor law, an eight-hour workday for railroad workers, and other social reforms in 1916?
- What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?
- Why did Margaret Sanger promote birth control in the 1910s?
- The efforts of Alice Paul and Carrie Chapman Catt were instrumental in_________________.
- The Progressive Era’s Jim Crow laws in the South were designed to _________________.
- What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois during the progressive period?
