STUDY QUESTIONS

CALIFORNIA:  AN INTERPRETIVE HISTORY (8th Ed.)

CHAPTER 21  -  THE REPUBLICAN PROGRESSIVES IN POWER

1. How would you describe the members of the Lincoln-Roosevelt Republican movement which gained control of the state government after the 1910 elections?
2. What kind of issues did earlier scholars ignore when studying California progressives as a case study for political and social reform movements throughout the nation?
3. Which groups in particular supported regulation of the railroad?
4. How was regulation of the railroads and other public utilities finally brought under control in 1911?
5. What was scientific management and how did Progressives believe it could be infused into government?
6. What did reformers seek to accomplish through the initiative and referendum?
7. Why did progressives have so much faith in "the people" and how did their reform initiatives show this?
8. Why and how did Progressives seek to destroy the two-party system in California?
9. What was the cross-filing system?
10. When did California adopt woman suffrage?
11. What were the early victories scored by feminists in the 1870s?
12. Why was an 1896 initiative to grant women the vote rejected by voters?
13. What role did the movement for public morals play in California politics in the early 20th century?
14. How did most Republican progressives view the state's labor movement?  What was Hiram Johnson's relationship like with labor?
15. How did worker's compensation get its start?
16. What did the Weinstock arbitration bill propose?  Why was labor so bitterly opposed to it?  Did it pass?
17. Why did labor unions initially oppose a minimum wage law?
18. Did African Americans benefit much from Progressive reforms?
19. What did the Asiatic Exclusion League advocate?
20. What caused such a diplomatic crisis between Japan and the U.S. that Teddy Roosevelt had to negotiate a Gentlemen's Agreement with the Japanese government?
21. What was the controversy over picture brides?
22. How did the racial stereotypes whites employed against Japanese differ from those they employed against the Chinese?
23. What were the provisions of the Alien Land Law of 1913 and who was it aimed at?  Were their loopholes to the law?
24. What led to the decline of California Progressives?

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