Progressivism

1 Which of the following statements about progressivism is accurate? Progressives sought to use the government to help create a just society it was a political response to industrialism and its social by-products progressives wanted to reform the evils spawned by capitalism, but they wanted to preserve the capitalist system itself it differed from populism in that progressivism was more urban and elisted more journalists, academics, and social theorists all of the above 2 The term "muckrakers" referred to opponents of Woodrow Wilson supporters of Standard Oil women who spread mud on the grounds of the White House to protest being denied the vote journalists and writers who exposed political corruption and corporate wrongdoing agricultural reformers 3 Booker T. Washington believed that the best way for blacks to improve their status in the U.S. was to struggle militantly against all forms of racial discrimination in order to gain educational opportunity form a nationwide council to work for federal laws against lynching accommodate themselves to segregation and disfranchisement while at the same time working hard and proving their economic value to society leave the U.S. and return to their African origins stage sitin demonstrations in public buildings 4 Which of the following candidates in the 1912 presidential election advocated the most far-reaching changes for American society? Theodore Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson William Howard Taft Eugene Debs None of the above 5 Who said "I aimed at the nation's heart, but hit it in the stomach?" Theodore Roosevelt about the election of 1912 Lincoln Steffens about his book about municipal corruption Ida Tarbell about her exposé of Standard Oil's trust Upton Sinclair about the revolting descriptions in his novel "The Jungle" William Howard Taft, in commenting on his 300-pounds of weight