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What did Jane Addams learn was neccessary to alleviate social problems in

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involvement in political action

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The progressives that influenced the US between 1890 and 1916 were

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reformers with a broad agenda of concerns

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How did the American progressive movement begin and evolve?

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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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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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Movement called for 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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Charles M. Sheldon

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Why did progressives launch the social purity movement?

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To attack prostitution and other vices

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The temperance reform movement of the late nineteenth an dearly twentieth centuries stigmatized

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the Irish, Italians and Germans

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What was the uprising of twenty thousand in 1909?

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A strike by women garment workers in NYC who were protecting 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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women workers could create solidarity across social and ethnic lines

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Lawyers used a mass of sociological evidence in the 1908 Muller vs. Orgeon case to demonstrate

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

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

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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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systematized 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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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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reduce Clevelands street car system's fare from five to three cents to promote working class riderships

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

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He 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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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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the government had 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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A reduction in hours worked and increase in wages

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Taken together, what did president Roosevelt's action in the anthracite coal strike of 1902 and the dissolution of Northern Securities in 1904 demonstrate about the US government?

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

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

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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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The tacit approval of President Rooselvelt for US steels acquisition of Tennesee 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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Allow them to continue but with federal government regulation

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How did Presidnet Roosevelt influence land conservation during his administration?

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He more than quadrupled the average of government reserves

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

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Gilofrd Renshop

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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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Preservationists sought to protect the wilderness from commercial exploitation conservationists advocated its efficient use

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

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backed up an uprising in Panama arranged by NY investors.

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The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine

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set up the US 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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ensure American commercial entry into china

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President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel peace Prize in 1906 for his role in

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the Russo-Japanese War

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What was the purpose of the 1907 "Gentleman's Agreement" between the United States and Japan?

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To allow the Japanese to save face by voulenterarly limiting immigration to the United States

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Which of the following describes a significant difference between William Howard Taft's presidency and that of Theodore Roosevelt ?

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Taft believed it was up to the courts not the president to arbitrate social issues

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What happened to progressive reform after Democrats swept the congressional elections of 1910?

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It continued in areas such as mine and railroad safety

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Which of the following describes President Taft's "dollar diplomacy" in the Caribbean?

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It set commercial rather than strategic goals in the region by hiring nationals and paying them US dollars

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What factor explained Woodrow Wilson's victory in the 1912 presidential election

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Roosevelt entered the race as a third party candidate and split the Republican vote.

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

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It incorporated his belief in limited government, state 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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the federal income tax

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

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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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The promotion of legislation that would re-institute 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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opposed affording special privileges to any group

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Why did President Wilson champion the Keating-Owen Child labor law, an 8 hour workday for railroad workers and other social reforms in 1916?

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He wanted to win 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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He urged men and women to liberate themselves from the barbarism of private ownership and wage slavery

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

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She believed that it would usefully alter social and political power relationship

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

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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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women's suffrage

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beginning in the 1890s, progressive southerners sought to reform the electoral system in the south by

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disenfranchising black voters

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

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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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Washington focused on education and economic progress while Du Bois emphasized civil rights and black leadership

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