REVIEW QUESTIONS CHAPTERS 22,23,24,25
1. What tragedy occurred at the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory? What result did it
have on social legislation in New York States?
2. How did progressivism differ from earlier reform movements?
3. From which socio/economic group did most Progressives come?
4. What methods did progressives employ to bring aboutl reform?
5. Define each of the following: pragmatism, Social Darwinism, sociological
jurisprudence.
6. Who were the Muckrakers? Who gave them that name?
7. What did Progressives see as the fundamental cause(s) of poverty?
8. In what ways did the rise of industry and urbanization change the rolles of
American women?
9. What efforts did Jane Addams make towards abolishing child labot? With
what result?
10. What were the provisions of: the 16th amendment? The 17th
Amendment?
The 18th Amendment? The 19th Amendment?
11. Define eugenics. What was its relationship (if any) with progressivism?
12. Identify: W.E.B. DuBois. What did he mean by a “Talented Tenth”?
13. What important change in the organization of city government came from a
disaster in Galveston, Texas, in 1900?
14. What problems did new regulatory commissions face in accomplishing their
goals?
15. What was the “Wisconsin Idea”?
16. What did Theodore Roosevelt consider the greatest value of progressive
reform?
17. What major reforms did Theodore Roosevelt achieve?
18. Identify the provisions of: Elkins Act. Pure Food and Drug Act. Newlands
Act.
19. How did Taft’s approach to the presidency differ from that of TF?
20. Who were the major candidates in the presidential election of 1912? The
result?
21. How did the New Nationalism differ from the New Freedom?
22. Identify the provisions of: the Underwood-Simmons Tariff, the Federal Trade
Commission Act, the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, the Federal Reserve Act.
23. Identify: Louis Brandeis.
24. How do the authors of your text evaluate the Progressive Movement?
25. Who were the major candidates in the presidential election of 1916? The
outcomer?
26. Why did the voyage of the U.S.S. Oregon create such anxiety in the U.S.?
27. What role did the U.S. play in achieving the independence of Panama?
28. How did the world financial position of the U.S. change as a result of World
War I?
29. What were the assumptiions and aims of progressive diplomacy?
30. Identify: The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
31. Why was TR awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?
32. How did Japan respond to the voyage of the Great White Fleet?
33. Define: dollar diplomacy.
34. Identify: John J. Pershing.
35. How did Woodrow Wilson respond to the outbreak of war in Europe in 1914?
36. Identify: William Jennings Bryan. Why did he resign from Wilson’s cabinet in
1915?
37. Identify: “He Kept Us Out of War”; Zimmermann Telegram, Lusitania.
38. How did U.S. participation in World War I affect the status of women? Of
blacks?
39. What did the Supreme Court decide in the case of Schenck vs. United
States.
40. How did American entry into World War I affect the outcome?
41. What were the primary provisions of the Treat of Versailles?
42. In the period following World War I, what challenges did demoracy face?
43. What economic forces explain the rise of properity in the twenties?
44. What changes in media communications developed during the twenties?
45. Identify: Harlem Renaissance.
46. What were the provisions of the National Origins Act of 1924?
47. What problems were encountered in the attempted enforcement of
prohibition?
48. Identify: Ku Klux Klan.
49. Identify: Scopes Trial. Its outcome?
50. What general econommic and social policies were promoted by the Harding
and Coolidge administration?
51. What principles were most important to Secretary of the Treasury Andrew E.
Mellon?
52. What particular problems beset American farmers in the 1920s?
53. What were the provisions of the Five Power Treaty of 1921?
54. Who were the candidates in the presidential election of 1924? The result?
55. In what ways did the election resemble those of 1920 and 1924? In what
important days did it differ?
56. What forces led to frenzied speculation in stocks and other commodities in
the twenties?
57. According to your text, what were the essential causes of the Great
Depression?
58. How did President Hoover respond to the deepening depression? With what
result?
59. Who were the candidates in the presidential election of 1932? What was the
outcome?
60. Generally speaking, how did the onset of the Great Depression affect AfricanAmericans?
61. Identify: Farm Holiday Association.
62. What major legislation was enacted during the first hundred days of FDR’s
first term?
63. What groups benefitted most from the Civilian Conservation Corps?
64. Identify: Butler vs. United States.
65. What were the provisions of the: Social Security Act, National Labor
Relations Act, Fair Labor Standards Act, Indian Reorganization Act?
66. What promoted FDR to ask Congress to increase the size of the Supreme
Court? The outcome?