APUSH (Progressive Era, Imperialism, WWI)

What did the 18th Amendment to the Constitution do?

• granted women the right to vote
• prohibited the production of alcohol in the US
• allowed for the direct election of Senators
• created the income tax

This western state, led by Governor Robert LaFollette, was the most progressive because it created the first income tax and used university experts to help write laws to regulate business:

• Oregon
• California
• Wisconsin
• Indiana

Florence Kelley would have MOST supported which presidential decision in the Progressive era?

• Theodore Roosevelt's conservation of millions of acres of national forests
• Woodrow Wilson's creation of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act
• William Howard Taft's creation of a Children's Bureau and child labor laws
• Theodore Roosevelt's break-up of Northern Securities monopoly

Jacob Riis' book "How the Other Half Lives" exposed...

• working conditions for child laborers
• the lack of sanitation in the meat packing industry
• urban poverty and life in the slums
• the problems created by alcohol abuse

Which progressive reform allowed citizens to vote for new taxes that would pay for specific programs?

• direct election of Senators
• referendum
• direct primary elections
• iniative

Which of the following best describes the presidential election of 1912?

• Woodrow Wilson won the presidency because Republican voters were divided
• Theodore Roosevelt won the election and became the first president elected to three terms
• the Republican Party won the presidency for the first time ever
• William Taft won the election and brought an end to the Progressive Era

Muckrakers Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair influenced the federal government to...

• end racial discrimination in the workplace
• grant citizenship to people who had entered the country illegally
• pass legislation to correct harmful business practices
• force individual states to regulate monopolies

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was intended to...

• regulate the stock market
• create a national parks system
• control the nation's money supply
• support a bimetallism currency system

A goal of the Progressive movement from 1890 to 1920 was to...

• promote laissez-faire government policies
• correct the problems caused by industrialization
• promote settlement of land west of the Mississippi River
• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

What was the goal of those who supported the constitutional amendment that provided for direct election of US senators?

• providing equal voting rights to minority groups
• expanding the power of the legislative branch
• give all states, regardless of their population size, equal power in Congress
• making the politicians more responsive to the people