Exploring Progressive Era Challenges: Muckrakers, Reforms, and Social Issues

1. Fall Semester Review Part 3

3. Question 1 - 100 • Journalists who sought to expose the problems in society

4. Answer 1 – 100 • Muckrakers

5. Question 1 - 200 • Progressive reform ended with this

6. Answer 1 – 200 • WWI

7. Question 1 - 300 • This influenced the passage of the Meat Inspection Act

8. Answer 1 – 300 • Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

9. Question 1 - 400 • The main reason that President Wilson won the 1912 election was

10. Answer 1 – 400 • The Republicans split their vote between 2 candidates

11. Question 1 - 500 • The law that required government workers to be qualified to hold a position by passing an examination was

12. Answer 1 – 500 • The Pendleton Civil Service Act

13. Question 2 - 100 • Multi-family, unsanitary, multi-story homes in the cities were called

14. Answer 2 – 100 • Tenements

15. Question 2 - 200 • These were community centers that provided assistance to the urban poor

16. Answer 2 – 200 • Settlement houses

17. Question 2 - 300 • This most allowed factories to be built away from rivers

18. Answer 2 – 300 • electricty

19. Question 2 - 400 • Buying out raw materials and controlling your distributers is a business strategy used by Andrew Carnegie in the steel industry know as

20. Answer 2 – 400 • Vertical Integration

21. Question 2 - 500 • Replacement workers who took the jobs of striking workers were known as

22. Answer 2 – 500 • scabs

23. Question 3 - 100 • This was an economic policy in China

24. Answer 3 – 100 • Open Door

25. Question 3 - 200 • Cuba, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico came under US control after this event

26. Answer 3 – 200 • Spanish-American War

27. Question 3 - 300 • This was added to the Monroe Doctrine to encourage European powers to stay out of the western hemisphere

28. Answer 3 – 300 • Roosevelt Corollary

29. Question 3 - 400 • A need for new markets, desire for military strength, and a belief in the cultural superiority of the Anglo-Saxon were all

30. Answer 3 – 400 • Factors for US imperialism

31. Question 3 - 500 • Having an overseas empire meant that there was legal controversies concerning what

32. Answer 3 – 500 • The Constitutional rights of those living in the new territories

33. Question 4 - 100 • This is the belief that some land must be set aside but some can be used and developed

34. Answer 4 – 100 • Conservation

35. Question 4 - 200 • This promoted an end of slavery

36. Answer 4 – 200 • abolition

37. Question 4 - 300 • The main goal of this was assimilate people of various cultures into the dominate culture

38. Answer 4 – 300 • Americanization

39. Question 4 - 400 • The main purpose of this is to reward ones supporters who helped elect you into office

40. Answer 4 – 400 • patronage

41. Question 4 - 500 • Using your position of authority for personal gain- in other words claiming it cost more to build something than it actually did and keeping the difference for yourself is an example of

42. Answer 4 – 500 • graft

43. Question 5 - 100 • The term that describe the belief that the poor are responsible for their own poverty and helped justify the gap between the rich and the poor is

44. Answer 5 – 100 • Social Darwinism

45. Question 5 - 200 • The court case that establishes judicial review

46. Answer 5 – 200 • Marbury v. Madison

47. Question 5 - 300 • The union that was nicknamed the Wobblies and made up primarily of radicals and socialists was called

48. Answer 5 – 300 • Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

49. Question 5 - 400 • The court case that said segregation, (“separate but equal”) was legal was

50. Answer 5 – 400 • Plessy v. Fergeson