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What did the Theodore Roosevelt administration accomplish as far as regulating the railroad and meatpacking industries, restricting child labor, mediating industrial disputes, and funding western irrigation projects?

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Enacted the Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act, National Reclamation Act, Pure Food and Drug act,

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What did Roosevelt mean by the term "square deal"?

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His progressive views in which he stressed equality of opprotunity for all citizens, and government regulations to encourage such.

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What was the significance of the Hetch Hetchy controversy?

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It helped mobilize a new coalition of people committed to preservation of wilderness.

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What was the "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine?

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A substantial amendment to the Monroe Doctrine that asserted a right of the United States to intervene to stabilize the economic affairs of small states in the Caribbean and Central America if they were unable to pay their international debts.

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What did Roosevelt mean when he said, "Speak softly and carry a big stick"?

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The value and importance of using American Power in the world.

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How did Roosevelt's political stance change from 1901 to 1912?

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He went from being passionate about his presidency to backing out of running for re-election.

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What was the "Bull Moose" in the context of 1912?

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The Progressive Party

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As president, how did William Howard Taft alienate progressives?

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He replaced Roosevelt's secretary of the interior with Richard A. Ballinger, who attempted toinvalidate Roosevelt's removal of nearly 1 million acres of forests and mineral reserves from the public lands available for private development.

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What was the primary concern of William Howard Taft's foreign policy?

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Taft was all about neutrality in Policy

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What was the central issue in the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy.

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Taft's choice to disrupt naturalism and hire Ballinger as secretary of interior

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In the 1912 presidential campaign, how did Woodrow Wilson benefit from actions within the Republican Party?

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He presented a progressive program called "New Freedom."

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What were the differences between Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Wilson's New Freedom?

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It differed in its approach to economic policy and the trusts.

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What were the major issues on which Wilson was able to convince Congress to pass legislation within two years of taking office?

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A substantial lowering of the protective tarrif and the Federal Reserve Act

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What Constitutional power did Congress cite as justification for the Keating-Owen Act?

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The Court

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What was the biggest foreign policy threat in the first years of the Wilson administration?

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The surprise attack by the Japenese on the Russian Fleet

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What was the biggest legacy of Roosevelt's environmental policies?

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The making of National Parks

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What was the significance of the Roosevelt administration's role in the Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902?

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They threatened to send federal troops then increased wages by 10 percent

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What was the significance of the Underwood-Simmons tariff?

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it provided cuts substantial enough, to introduce real competition into American markets and thus to help break the power of trusts.

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What were the important features of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913?

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created twelve regional banks, held a certain percentage of the assets of their member banks in reserve, and issue of a new paper currency

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Why, when, and how did Theodore Roosevelt's mediate the end of a war?

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Because he took a new interest in foreign affairs, during early 1900s, and he used the "Big Stick" diplomacy.

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What were the major characteristics of the NAACP's strategy for combating racial oppression in the first two decades of its existence?

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their strategy was to gain position of full equality, and that such efforts would benefit blacks

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What beliefs united most progressives?

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They envisioned a community where people care for one another kind of like a utopia

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On what did progressive reform efforts on the state and local level consistently focus?

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To cut down political machines, to improve society, and get liquor banned

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What arguments did advocates of women's suffrage use to support their cause in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

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The constitution

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What was the role of Walter Rauschenbusch role in the progressive reform movement?

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he published a series of influential discourses on the possibilities for human salvation through christian reform

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What was the main goal of the settlement house movement?

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It provided social services that faciliated adjustment while respecting the cultural integrity of the peoples that it served.

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What major factors contributed to the growing role that women played in reform activities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries?

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Nineteenth amendment and "antimonopoly"

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How did the "city manager" form of municipal government differ from traditional forms?

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because of the commission plan, viewed polotics differently

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What were the main goals of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)?

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created not just a union, but a far-flung social network

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From what groups did most support for a national law prohibiting alcohol initially come?

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Rural fund amentalists

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To what does the term "muckrakers" refer?

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crusading journalists who began to direct Public attention toward social, economic, and political injustices

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How did voter turnout change during the Progressive Era?

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decline in party influence

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What were the major works of Herbert Croly, Thorstein Veblen, Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Louis Brandeis?

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Herbert Croly-promise of american life thorstein sebien-a theory of the leisure cities laa tarbell-study on standard oil trust louis brandeis-other peoples money

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What social issues were progressives most concerned with? Least concerned with?

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progress

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What was the Social Gospel?

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a clear expression of the concern with a sense of outrage at a social and economic injustice

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What were significant examples of the Social Gospel at work?

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salvation army

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How did Progressive "reforms" affect the power of political parties?

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other power centers replaced them

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From which group did the women's club movement attract most of its membership?

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middle and upper-class women

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What were the main arguments advanced by those opposed to immigration during the Progressive Era?

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eugenics and nativism

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What were the first two countries to begin fighting in the conflict that became known as World War I?

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great britain and germany

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In the early years of World War I, from 1914 to 1916, what was the role of the United States?

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neutral

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Why did President Wilson protest more strongly against German violations of American neutrality than British violations?

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germany abandoned us -"unlawful" tactics

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Through what means were the majority of funds used to support the American effort in World War I raised?

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selling liberty bonds and new taxes

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What was the "Great Migration" of the World War I era?

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migration of nun areas from the rural south into th north

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What was the Zimmerman Telegram designed to accomplish?'

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proposed that in the event of war between german and the us mexicans should join with germany against america

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What was the key immediate cause of America's declaration of war against Germany in April, 1917?

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Britain was suffering vast losses from the attacks of the german submarine

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During the 1916 presidential campaign, Wilson benefited heavily from what issues?

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riot rushings for and his war neutrality

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What was the most active element of the peace movement during World War I?

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womans peace party

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What was the significance of the American Expeditionary Force in the outcome of World War I?

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they handled all melitary personel

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What were the major principles associated with the foreign policy of Wilsonianism?

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refuaing a philosowhy and intermat relation

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For what is President Wilson often criticized regarding his handling of the Versailles Treaty and the League of Nations?

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that they were conducted in secret

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What were significant sources of tension in the postwar period between 1919 and 1921?

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reprepiration and resessive

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Both the Palmer Raids and the Sacco and Vanzetti case may be cited as evidence in the aftermath of World War I of the depth of feeling in America against what or whom?

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against red scarves

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What characterized relations between blacks and whites in the aftermath of World War I?

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mevrourous

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Who said, "America's greatest need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration . . . not surgery, but serenity"?

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Characterize the experiences of the majority of industrial workers in the United States between 1921 and 1929.

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2

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What was the most significant factor in promoting American economic growth during the 1920s?

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3

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During the 1920's, what proposals did farm groups advocate to help them deal with overproduction?

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4

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Characterize the experiences of the majority of both middle-class and working-class women during the 1920s.

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5

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What were visible signs of the influence of nativist sentiment during the 1920s?

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6

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Characterize the differences between the post-Civil War and post-1915 versions of the Ku Klux Klan.

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7

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What was the role of the federal government regarding involvement in the economy and other aspects of Americans' daily lives during the administrations of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge?

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8

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Which writers produced important critiques of American society during the 1920s?

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9

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How are the ideals of fundamentalism reflected in beliefs about the Bible?

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10

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What groups were the major supporters of the "American Plan"?

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What did the 1924 Democratic National Convention demonstrate about the Democratic Party?

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12

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For what is the presidential administration of Warren G. Harding best known?

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What factors contributed to the weakness of the organized labor movement in America in the 1920s?

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What factors had the greatest influence in producing the sense of disillusionment characteristic of the Lost Generation?

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What was the Harlem Renaissance?

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What was an economic indicator that did not dramatically increase during the 1920's?

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17

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What was the essence of "welfare capitalism"?

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How effective was enforcement of Prohibition? How did the effectiveness vary from place to place?

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How was H.L. Mencken significant to American social and cultural life in the 1920's?

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In what way was Margaret Sanger significant to American life?

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