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The triangle shirt waist fire

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Brought in its wake increase union organizing among New York city garment workers and much-needed safety legislation.

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The word progressivism came into common use around 1910

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As a way of describing abroad loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups

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Progressive movement drew its strength from

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Middle-class reformers

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During the progressive era

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Commercial farming grew

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The painters who were part of the ashcan school focused their art on

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City life

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During the progressive era

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Urban development highlighted social inequalities

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Newspaper and magazine writers, who exposed the ells of industrial and urban life, fueling the progressive movement, were known as

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Muckrakers

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Muckrakers

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Expose the problems of industrial and urban life

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All of the following people were muckrakers except

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Samuel Gompers

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The writer whose work encourage the passage of the meat inspection act was

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Upton Sinclair with his novel the jungle

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During the progressive era

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New immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe reached its peak

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Progressive era immigration was part of a larger process of worldwide migration set in motion by all of the following forces except

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The annexation of the Philippines

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Which was the Ellis island of the west

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Angel Island

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In the early 20th century angel island in San Francisco Bay became known as the Ellis island of the west and served as the main entry point for immigrants from

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Japan

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Asian and Mexican immigrants in the early 20th century

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Clustered in the west as agricultural workers in California

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Birds of passage were

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Immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland

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Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the 20th century

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Lived in close knit communities

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Which institution became a pillar of stability for the emigrants as they settled into the communities in American cities

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Church

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All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early 20th century are true except

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Southerners fully participated in the mass consumption society

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Vaudeville is a

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Form of entertainment

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Nickelodeon's

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Where motion picture theaters with a five cent admission charge

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During the progressive era

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Growing numbers of nativeborn white women work in offices

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to women's freedom leaf through

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Work place

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The term fordism

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Describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption

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The new concepts of a living wage in the American standard of living

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Allowed for criticism of the any qualities of wealth and power

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The program that sought to streamline production and boost profits by systematically controlling costs and work practices was called

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Scientific management

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Scientific management

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Was pioneered by Frederick W Taylor

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A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called a

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scab

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Which person was a supreme court justice and a progressive reformers who advocated for the labor movement

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Louis Brandeis

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In the early 20th century the Socialist party advocated for all of the following except

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National health insurance

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By 1912 the Socialist party

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Had elected scores of local officials

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Eugene V Debs was

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A socialist candidate for president

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Which statement about the American Federation of labor in the early 20th century is false

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The AFL established pension plans for long-term workers

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The industrial workers of the world

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Advocated a workers revolution

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Which statement about the textile strike in Lawrence Massachusetts in 1912 is false

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The strikers asked the American Federation of labor for assistant

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The 1912 strike in Lawrence Massachusetts

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Is also known as the bread and roses strike

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The Ludlow massacre was a tragic confrontation between

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Colorado mine workers and militia

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The battle for free speech among workers in the early 20th century

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Was led by the industrial workers of the world

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Feminism

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Sought to attack the traditional roles of sexual behavior for women

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Margaret Sanger was a

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Birth control advocate

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What progressive era issue became a crossroads where the paths of labor radicals cultural modernist and feminists intersected

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Women's suffrage

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Founder of the society of American Indians, Carlos Montezuma

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Demanded that American Indians be left alone in order to be independent

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Which of the following is not a characteristic of progressive reformers

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Progressives pursued radical alternatives to capitalism

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Which of the following social groups was not heavily involved in the progressive movement

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White protestants

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All of the following statements about urban progressives are true. Except

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They worked with political machines

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Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms except

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Using political bosses two staff his administration

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Electoral reform during the progressive era

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Actually limited many Americans right to vote

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All of the following measures expanded democracy during the progressive era except

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Literacy tests and residency requirements

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Jane Addams

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Advocated for the working poor

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All of the following statements about Jane Addams and whole house are true except

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Adams believed that reformers needed to aid the poor from afar

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After 1900 the campaign for women suffrage

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Included both middle and working-class women

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A cause not widely championed by Progressives was

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civil rights for blacks

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In Muller V Oregon the Supreme Court

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Argued that women were too weak to work long hours

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Maternalist reform

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Was supported by both feminists and more traditional woman

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The progressive presidents were

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Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson

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Who used the Sherman antitrust act to dissolve J.P. Morgan's Northern securities company

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Theodore Roosevelt

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President Theodore Roosevelt

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Helped striking coal miners to negotiate a favorable settlement with their employers

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As a progressive President Theodore Roosevelt

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Supported the conservation movement

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To create national parks like Yellowstone Yosemite and glacier the federal government

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Removed Indians who hunted and fished on these lands

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16th amendment

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Author rise to Congress to implement a graduated income tax

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Who was not a candidate in the 1912 presidential election

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William Jennings Bryan

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In 1912 new freedom

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Was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should bring new economic competition with less government intervention

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The main difference between new nationalism and new freedom was over

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Regulating versus trust busting

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