Question 1

Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens could both be called muckrakers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

The Federal Reserve Act

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A)   created a new type of paper currency.
B)   helped to reduce loans to private banks.
C)   was designed to push troubled banks out of business.
D)   was regulated by a board whose members were elected by Congress.
E)   created sixteen regional banks.F) B) and C)
G) B) and D)

Question 3

During the progressive era,reformers of city government frequently tried to

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A)   require city council members to run by district rather than at-large.
B)   hire professionally trained business managers or engineers as city managers.
C)   make all city government positions appointive.
D)   strengthen the power of city councils at the expense of mayors.
E)   move city elections to presidential years in order to increase turnout.F) None of the above
G) A) and D)

Question 4

In the early twentieth century,eugenics

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

Question 5

The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms primarily designed to weaken the power of

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A)   the federal government.
B)   municipal governments
C)   state governors.
D)   state legislatures.
E)   the courts.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 6

The leader of the National Woman's Party,________,did not think that the Nineteenth Amendment would be sufficient to protect women.

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Question 7

During the progressive era,W.E.B.Du Bois asserted all of the following EXCEPT that

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

Question 8

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

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Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson we...

Question 9

The brilliant lawyer LouisD.Brandies,who later became a Supreme Court justice,argued that the federal government should work to break up the largest corporations because the "curse of bigness"

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A)   limited competition.
B)   was inefficient.
C)   was a threat to freedom.
D)   encouraged abuses of power
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and E)
G) B) and C)

Question 10

Theodore Roosevelt cooperated with J.P.Morgan during the Panic of 1907 to attempt to stabilize the economy.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of

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A)   charitable foundations.
B)   community service.
C)   psychological therapy.
D)   social work.
E)   comparative sociology.F) All of the above
G) A) and B)

Question 12

Robert La Follette wanted to make the state of ________ into a "laboratory of progressivism."

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The answer of Robert La Follette wanted to make the...

Question 13

The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating

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A)   child labor.
B)   industrial safety.
C)   tenant agriculture.
D)   the garment industry.
E)   information about contraceptives.F) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 14

During his first three years in office,President Theodore Roosevelt was less concerned with reform than he was with not upsetting the conservative wing of his party.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

World War I hurt the socialist movement in the United States

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A)   because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country.
B)   because the Socialist Party supported Germany.
C)   because the Socialist Party had dynamited key railroad lines to prevent troop movement.
D)   both because the war generated anti-radical feelings in the country, and because the Socialist Party supported Germany.
E)   All these answers are correct.F) A) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 16

Muckraker Lincoln Steffens wrote an expose titled ________.

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The Shame ...

Question 17

For western states,the most important target of reform energies was

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A)   state government agencies, such as the Bureau of Land Management.
B)   the federal government, because it exerted great power in the western states.
C)   political parties.
D)   municipal and county governments, as they had the most day-to-day impact on the lives of the western voting constituency.
E)   the prison system.F) A) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 18

All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration EXCEPT the

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A)   Meat Inspection Act.
B)   Pure Food and Drug Act.
C)   Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act.
D)   National Reclamation Act.
E)   Interstate Commerce Act.F) C) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 19

Regarding divorce in the United States during the progressive era,by 1916

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

Question 20

What major progressive reforms were enacted by the federal government between 1912 and 1915?

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During the years 1912-1915, the federal ...

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