Chapter 13 The Progressive Era   1. How did the Panic of 1893 help bring about the Progressive movement?     A) The Panic hurt the labor movement so much that Progressives tried to save it.     B) The Panic made the split between rich and poor so wide it could not be ignored.     C) Many members of the Progressive movement became poor because of the Panic.     D) Farmers suffered the most because of the Panic of 1893.   2. Inequality in America spread to the political system in the 1890s. Which group seemed to hold much political power at this time?     A) immigrants     B) American laborers     C) wealthy industrialists     D) Progressives   3. Who wrote the book Looking Backward 2000-1887, which made socialism an attractive alternative to the existing industrial society?     A) Jack London     B) Eugene V. Debs     C) Edward Bellamy     D) Daniel De Leon   4. Eugene V. Debs and Daniel De Leon founded an organization that became known as the Wobblies. Which of the following is the best description of the Wobblies?     A) socialists who felt that by the year 2000 there would be no poverty or crime and that all business would be merged into one big trust     B) a labor union that advocated achieving its goals through confrontation and violence     C) moderate socialists who named Debs as the Socialist party candidate for president of the United States     D) moderate reformers who felt that the only way to save the capitalist system was to improve it   5. Which of the following CANNOT be applied to the people known as Progressives?     A) small, well-organized group of reformers     B) found among both Democrats and Republicans     C) urban, middle-class professionals     D) not suffering, but sympathetic with those who were   6. What is the idea behind the social gospel?     A) Religious organizations should abandon their spiritual work in favor of working to improve society.     B) Religious organizations should work to improve society as well as to meet their religious goals.     C) Religious organizations should stick to meeting the spiritual needs of their congregations.     D) Religious organizations should join the National Council of the Churches of Christ.   7. Women became a driving force in the Progressive movement. They achieved all of the following reforms EXCEPT ___________     A) the right to dispose of their own wages.     B) the right of equal guardianship of children.     C) the right to make a will.     D) national woman suffrag.   8. Harvard philosopher William James promoted a new way of thinking called pragmatism. What did the pragmatists believe?     A) that the absolute truth of science should be accepted     B) that the value of government actions should be measured by the good that they do     C) that laws cannot improve social conditions     D) that law is an absolute set of principles that should always be followed   9. Which of the following pragmatists would eventually use his ideas as a member of the Supreme Court of the United States?     A) Henry Adams     B) Richard Ely     C) John Dewey     D) Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.   10. What did muckrakers do to get their nickname?     A) They worked in the woman suffrage movement.     B) They formed labor unions.     C) They exposed a variety of social problems in their writings.     D) They taught in universities.   11. A progressive reform in city government developed in the 1900s was called the city-manager plan. What was the city-manager plan of government?     A) An elected council ran city government.     B) An elected council hired a professional manager to run city government.     C) A group of commissioners ran the city government much like a business.     D) A political machine controlled city government.   12. What right do citizens exercise when they use the initiative?     A) the right to nominate candidates for an election     B) the right to vote     C) the right to introduce legislation     D) the right to remove elected officials   13. What section of the country led the way in granting woman suffrage?     A) Northern states     B) Western states     C) Southern states     D) Eastern states   14. What does "caveat emptor" mean?     A) Let the buyer beware.     B) Seeing is believing.     C) Look for the union label.     D) What you see is what you get.   15. Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle to expose one evil, but it ended up focusing public attention on another. What idea caught the public's attention?     A) the harmful conditions under which children labored in mines     B) the unsafe conditions in zoos     C) the unhealthy conditions in textile mills     D) the unhealthy condition of some foods