Question 1

What were the significant divisions within the progressive movement? What impact did these divisions have on the movement?

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Question 2

In the early twentieth century,eugenics

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A)   was exposed by a federal commission as a fraudulent science.
B)   asserted that the root of many urban problems was overcrowded cities.
C)   aimed to subvert and oppose the rising tide of nativism.
D)   supported the restriction of immigration by nationality.
E)   contended that inequalities between humans were rooted in education.F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

The direct primary and the recall were both reforms designed to enhance the power of political parties in the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The term "muckrakers" referred to

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A)   western progressives.
B)   Social Darwinists.
C)   critics of imperialism.
D)   journalists.
E)   socialists.F) B) and D)
G) C) and D)

Question 5

The Women's Christian Temperance Union

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A)   was, at one time, the largest women's organization in American history.
B)   was founded during the Progressive Era.
C)   was headed by a male president.
D)   was later replaced by the Anti-Saloon League.
E)   called for an end to saloons, not for a full prohibition on alcoholic beverages.F) All of the above
G) C) and D)

Question 6

The political popularity of the Socialist Party peaked shortly after the end of World War I.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Progressive reforms tended to increase voter turnout in presidential elections.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

As governor of Wisconsin,the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

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A)   the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.
B)   campaign finance reform.
C)   mandatory health insurance.
D)   employee profit sharing in large corporations.
E)   a repeal of the income tax.F) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 9

In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

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A)   All these answers are correct.
B)   Illinois was the first state east of the Mississippi to grant women the right to vote.
C)   a large majority of states gave some voting rights to women.
D)   New York, Michigan, Illinois, and California all granted women the right to vote.
E)   many states gave full voting rights to women.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

Regarding divorce in the United States during the Progressive Era,by 1916

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A)   one in every nine marriages, more than ten percent, ended in divorce.
B)   divorce rates declined.
C)   few states allowed divorce.
D)   women began gaining the right to divorce in many states.
E)   the majority of divorces were initiated by men.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 11

What were the similarities and differences between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as progressive presidents?

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Question 12

Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

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A)   the majority of professional women were nurses.
B)   social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.
C)   almost no women were able to have professional careers.
D)   women were forced out of nursing as the occupation gained distinction.
E)   educated black women were barred from all professional opportunities.F) None of the above
G) A) and D)

Question 13

The Supreme Court,in two rulings related to the 1916 Keating-Owen Act,

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A)   illustrated how quickly Justice Louis Brandeis had changed the Court.
B)   validated an expansion of congressional authority.
C)   struck down reform legislation.
D)   demonstrated its support for President Wilson's political agenda.
E)   displayed support for using federal authority to create social change.F) C) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 14

Which statement regarding the controversy over Hetch Hetchy Valley is FALSE?

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A)   John Muir devoted the last years of his life to opposing a dam at Hetch Hetchy.
B)   Hetch Hetchy was a spectacular high-walled valley within Yosemite National Park.
C)   Theodore Roosevelt led the fight in favor of building a dam at Hetch Hetchy.
D)   The fight against the dam helped mobilize a new coalition of preservationists.
E)   In 1908, by a wide margin, San Francisco voters approved building a dam at Hetch Hetchy.F) B) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 15

During the Progressive Era,W.E.B.Du Bois asserted all of the following EXCEPT that

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A)  talented blacks should accept nothing less than a full university education.
B)  Booker T.Washington's ideas were unnecessarily limiting to blacks.
C)  blacks should fight for immediate civil rights.
D)  blacks should aspire to the professions.
E)  seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise.F) A) and B)
G) None of the above

Question 16

What social factors motivated progressivism to develop as a reform movement when it did?

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Question 17

In the election of 1908,William Howard Taft

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A)   was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.
B)   had a public image very much like that of Theodore Roosevelt.
C)   decisively defeated his Republican opponent in the general election.
D)   was opposed by progressives and conservatives.
E)   narrowly defeated his opponent, William Jennings Bryan.F) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 18

As an environmental conservationist,President Theodore Roosevelt

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A)   All these answers are correct.
B)   opposed new dam construction on major rivers.
C)   opposed the growing preservationist movement as impractical.
D)   opposed hunting on all federal lands.
E)   added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.F) A) and C)
G) B) and E)

Question 19

During the Progressive Era,the women's club movement

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A)   had a national organization to coordinate club activities.
B)   both had a national organization to coordinate club activities, and became increasingly concerned with cultural activities.
C)   None of these answers is correct.
D)   became increasingly concerned with cultural activities.
E)   consistently avoided controversial social reforms.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 20

In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts

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A)   should have the right to expand.
B)   should exist only if they recognized laborers right to organize.
C)   should exist only if they benefited the middle class.
D)   needed to be tightly regulated by the federal government.
E)   should be destroyed.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

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