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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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