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What did Jane Addams quickly learn was necessary to alleviate social problems in Chicago?

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d. Involvement in political action

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The progressives that influenced the United States between 1890 and 1916 were ?

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a.reformers with a broad agenda of concerns.

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How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?

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c.It began at the grassroots level and percolated up to the national level of government.

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What did American women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries conclude about the settlement house movement?

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D) Settlements gave women opportunities to use their talents to help society.

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What did the social gospel movement of the late nineteenth century advocate?

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b.The movement called for the reform of both individuals and society.

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Who wrote In His steps, the popular 1898 book that called on men and women to Christianize capitalism?

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d.Charles M. Sheldon

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Why did progressives launch the social purity movement?

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b.attack prostitution and other vices.

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The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries stigmatized?

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c.the Irish, Italians, and Germans

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What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?

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a. A strike by women garment workers in New York City who were protesting low wages, dangerous working conditions, and management's refusal to recognize their union.

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The 1909 strike at New York City's Triangle Shirtwaist Company demonstrated that?

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c. women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines.

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Lawyers used mass of sociological evidence in the 1908 Muller's v. Oregon case to demonstrate?

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b.the ill effects of working long hours on the health and safety of women.

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What idea formed the core of reform Darwinist theory in progressive-era America?

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d. The state should play a more active role in solving social problems.

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Elevating productivity and efficiency but alienating the working class, Frederick Winslow Taylor pioneered the practice of ?

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c. systemized shop management

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What assumption lay at the foundation of the American progressive agenda in the early twentieth century?

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d.Experts have the skills and knowledge to utilize scientific methods to improve society.

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One of Cleveland mayor Thomas Lofton Johnson's primary goals was to ?

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b.reduce Cleveland's streetcar systems fare from five cents to three cents to promote working-class ridership.

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How did Wisconsin governor Robert La Follette unite his supporters during the first years of the twentieth century?

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a.La Follette emphasized reform over party loyalty.

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In his capacity as a reform governor of California from 1911 to 1917, Hiram Johnson?

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c. supported conservation, the initiative, referendum, and recall.

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According to Theodore Roosevelt, the absolutely vital question facing the nation when he became president in 1901 was whether?

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a.the government had the power to control the trusts.

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What was the outcome of the strike by 147,000 anthracite coal miners in Pennsylvania in 1902?

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d. A reduction in hours worked and an increase in wages

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Taken together, what did President Roosevelt's actions in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrate about the U.S. government?

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a. Roosevelt's administration would act independently from big business

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The Hepburn Act (1906) marked the first time that?

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c. a government commission was authorized to examine the records of a private business and set prices.

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The term muckrakers refers to Progressive Era journalists who were known for ?

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c. writing stories about corporate and political wrongdoing.

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What did J.P. Morgan receive in return for his actions in the Panic of 1907?

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b. The tactic approval of President Roosevelt for U.S. Steel's acquisition of Tennessee Coal and Iron.

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What did President Roosevelt believe was the best way to deal with trusts in the first decade of the twentieth century?

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c) Allow them to continue but with federal government regulation

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How did President Roosevelt influence land conservation during his administration?

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b.He more than quadrupled the acreage of government reserves.

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President Roosevelt placed the nation's conservation policy in the hands of scientifically trained experts like his chief forester?

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d.) Gifford Pinchot.

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Which of the following statements describes the primary difference between preservationists and conservationists in the early twentieth century?

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a. Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from all commercial exploitation, while conservationists advocated its efficient use.

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Which of the following beliefs formed the basis for Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy?

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a. The United States should use a combination of military strength and diplomacy to deal with European powers.

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To obtain the Panamanian isthmus for construction of a canal in 1903, the United States ?

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b. backed an uprising in Panama arranged by New York investors.

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?

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a. set up the United States as the police power in the Western Hemisphere.

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President Roosevelt inherited the Open Door Policy , which was designed to ?

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b.ensure the United States commercial entry into China in the face of competition from European nations and Japan.

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What factor explained Woodrow Wilsons victory in the 1912 presidential election?

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d. Theodore Roosevelt entered the race as a third party candidate and split the Republic vote.

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Which of the following statements describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom?

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b.It incorporated his belief in limited government, states' rights, and open markets.

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To compensate for the revenue that would be lost as a result of the new Underwood tariff, in 1913 the House of Representatives passed ?

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c. the federal income tax.

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Which of the following statements describes the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

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c. It was the most significant piece of domestic legislation in Wilson's presidency.

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What did President Wilson hope to accomplish by supporting the Clayton Act of 1914?

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d. Legislation that would reinstitute competition among businesses without regulation

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During his first term as president , Woodrow Wilson refused to support child labor laws, woman suffrage, and labor's demand for an end to injunctions because he?

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a. opposed affording special privileges to any group

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Why did President Wilson champion the Keating-Owen child labor law, an eight-hour work day for railroad workers, and other social reforms in 1916?

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b. He wanted to with support and votes in the West and Midwest

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What did Eugene V. Debs advocate as an alternative to the progressive programs of the Republicans and Democrats?

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d. Debs urged men and women to liberate them selves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery

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Why did Margaret Sanger promote birth control in the 1910's?

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b.believed that it would usefully alter social and political power relationships

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What was the response to Margaret Sanger's first efforts to launch a movement for birth control in 1915?

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d.She was faced with the prospect of arrest for distributing obscene information.

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The efforts of Alice Paul were instrumental in?

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d. woman suffrage

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Beginning in the 1890's, progressive southerners sought to reform the electoral system in the South by?

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B) disfranchising black voters.

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The Progressive Era's Jim Crow laws in the South were designed to?

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c. legalize and expand racial segregation in public facilities.

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What was the fundamental difference between the philosophies of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois during the progressive period?

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A) Washington focused on education and economic progress, while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership.

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