Progressives Review

Who coined the phrase the Gilded Age to refer to the time period from 1865 - 1900?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Mark Twain

• Walt Whitman

• William McKinley

The practice of giving people government jobs as reward for helping getting a candidate elected to office is known as

• favoritism

• nepotism

• patronage

• nativism

Which political party split over the issue of civil service reform?

• Democrats

• Republicans

• Whigs

• Populists

The act that ended the practice of appointing people to government jobs as reward for helping get the candidate elected is the

• Pendleton Act

• Dawes Act

• Sherman Antitrust Act

• National Origins Act

After the Pendleton Act many government workers were

• appointed by the President.

• selected by a committee.

• required to take a test to be hired.

• chosen by party bosses.

Tammany Hall was

• a political machine that ran NYC.

• the union headquarters of the AFL.

• the home of JD Rockefeller.

• NYC's town hall.

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Progressives were made up of all the following EXCEPT:

• teachers

• journalists

• social workers

• industrialist

The laissez-faire argument for the best way to preserve public land was to

• keep it under government control and not allow companies to use it.

• keep it under government control, but allow its use for land development projects.

• sell it to lumber companies, who would conserve it as a source of profits.

• sell it to private individuals, who would conserve it because it belonged to them.

Tragedy at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company led to

• laws against harmful fumes.

• child labor laws.

• standards for safe use of machines.

• building codes requiring fire escapes.

The Constitution originally specified that senators would be selected by

• the legislature of each state.

• leaders of the majority party.

• the voters of each state.

• the majority party in each state.