Chapter 18/19 – Flashcards
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The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
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middle-class reformers
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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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The term "Fordism"
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describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.
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Progressive governor of Wisconsin, Robert La Follette, instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT
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promising lower taxes and less government interference.
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Jane Addams:
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advocated for the working poor.
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As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt
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supported the conservation movement.
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During the Progressive era:
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urban development highlighted social inequalities.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman claimed that the road to woman's freedom lay through:
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the workplace.
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The battle for free speech among workers in the early twentieth century:
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was led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
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A cause not widely championed by Progressives was:
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civil rights for blacks.
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The Roosevelt Corollary:
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claimed the right of the United States to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere.
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Woodrow Wilson's moral imperialism in Latin America produced:
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more military interventions than any other president before or since
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The Fourteen Points:
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sought to establish the right of national self-determination.
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During World War I, most Progressives:
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supported U.S. entry into the war.
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The Committee on Public Information:
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was a government agency that sought to shape public opinion.
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The Eighteenth Amendment:
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prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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"Americanization":
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refers to the process of assimilation.
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"The Great Migration" refers to:
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blacks moving from the South to the North.
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Eugenics is:
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the study of the supposed mental characteristics of different races.
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Wartime repression of dissent and free speech culminated in:
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The Red Scare.T
