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Farmers believed that their plight derived from:

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the free and unlimited coinage of silver.

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The Farmers' Alliance

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ought to improve conditions through cooperatives

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The People's Party

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evolved out of the Farmers' Alliance

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The Populist Platform

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called for government control of business

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The severe depression of 1893

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was marked by high, long-term unemployement exemplified by Coxey's army.

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How were federal troops used in the Pullman Strike of 1894?

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To help suppress the strikers on behalf of the owners

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William Jennings Bryan:

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ran for president in 1896 on the free silver platform.

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the silver issue

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refers to the fight to increase the money supply by minting silver money.

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Republican presidential candidate William McKinley:

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argued in favor of the gold standard.

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The election of 1896:

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is sometimes called the first modern presidential campaign.

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Which institution was hardest hit by the Redeemers once they assumed power in the South?

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Public Schools

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In the South, the Redeemers:

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imposed a new racial order.

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The New South, as promoted by Henry Grady:

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attempted to appeal to northern business interests but failed to bring prosperity to the region

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Who migrated to Kansas during the Kansas Exodus?

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blacks

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By the end of the nineteenth century, African-American men in the South:

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suffered from the region's most poor conditions

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Plessy v. Ferguson

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sactioned racial segregation

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The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire:

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brought in its wake increased union organizing among New York City garment workers and much needed safety legislation

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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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The word "Progressivism" came into common use aroudn 1910

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as a way of describing a loosely defined political movement.

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The Progressive movement drew its strength from

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middle-class reformers.

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

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muckrakers.

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Which of the following regions did people migrate to in large numbers between 1840 and 1914?

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China

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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 encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was

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Upton Sinclair.

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During the Progressive era

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1) commercial farming grew. 2) urban development highlighted social inequalities. 3) 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

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the annexation of the Philipines.

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Which was the Ellis Island of the West?

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Angel Island.

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Asian and Mexican Immigrants in the early twentieth century

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clustered in the West as agricultural workers.

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Birds of passage were

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immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland.

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

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Church

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All of the following statements are true of mass consumption in the early twentieth century EXCEPT:

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southerners fully participated in mass-consumption society.

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Vaudeville is a:

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form of live entertainment.

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Nickelodeons

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were motion picture theaters with a five cent admission charge.

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

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the workplace.

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The term "fordism"

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descrives an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

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The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living"

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allowed for criticism of the inequalities 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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Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

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skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions

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A worker who crosssed 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 reformenter who advocated for the labor movement?

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Louis Brandels

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In the early twentieth 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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The American Federation of Labor (AFL)

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proposed an overthrow of the capitalist system...?

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The industrial Workers of the World

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advocated a workers' revolution.

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What brough about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

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The appearance of malnourished children form Lawrenc shocked the public.

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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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Which of the following social groups were NOT heavily involved in the Progressive movement?

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Big city machine politicians

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

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using political bosses to staff his administration

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All of the following were measures that expanded democracy during the Progressive era EXCEPT:

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literacy tests and residency requirements

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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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Jane Addams:

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advocated for the working poor

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A cause not widely championed by Progressives was

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civil rights for blacks

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After 1900, the campaign for women's suffrage

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included both middle- and working-class women

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Maternalist reform:

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was supported by both feminists and more traditional women

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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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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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As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt

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supported the conversation 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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The Sixteenth Amendment:

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authorized Congress to implement a graduated income tax

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In 1912, New Freedom:

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was Woodrow Wilson's campaign pledge that government should renew economic competition with less government intervention

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The New Nationalism and New Freedom differed on the issue of

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govenrment interference in business, where New Freedom wanted less interference

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A frank acceptance of the benefits of bigness, coupled with the intervention of government to counteract its abuses, best describes the philosophy behind:

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New Nationalism

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As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson:

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signed into law the Keating-Owen Act

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