Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Frances Willard

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Question 2

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was

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A)   the National Consumers League.
B)   Hull House.
C)   the General Federation of Women's Clubs.
D)   the Progressive Party.
E)   the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Lincoln Steffens

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Question 4

As president,William Howard Taft

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A)   was a good judge of public opinion.
B)   held together the diverse wings of the Republican party.
C)   was wedded more to the status quo than to progressive change.
D)   adopted a confrontational attitude toward Congress.
E)   carried on the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Eugene V.Debs

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Question 6

Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?

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Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Eighteenth Amendment

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The Eighteenth Amendment to the United S...

Question 8

President Taft intervened militarily in ____ to ease disorders that threatened American investments there.

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A)   Central America
B)   Manchuria
C)   the Mediterranean
D)   the Caribbean
E)   the Philippines

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"separate spheres"

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Question 10

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle,he intended his book to focus attention on the

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A)   unsanitary conditions that existed in the meat-packing industry.
B)   plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry.
C)   corruption in the United States Senate.
D)   deplorable conditions in the drug industry.
E)   unhealthy effects of beef consumption.

Question 11

By 1910,all of the following were true about women's efforts to gain the vote except

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A)   Progressives supported the movement.
B)   reformers embraced votes for women as a way to elevate the political tone.
C)   Prohibitionists thought they could count of votes of enfranchised women.
D)   a federal amendment granting the right to vote was about to be passed.
E)   states in the West had gradually extended the vote to women.

Question 12

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

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A)   using the military to force the miners back to work.
B)   passing legislation making the miners' union illegal.
C)   helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers.
D)   appealing to mine owners' and workers' sense of the public interest.
E)   threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

Question 13

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except

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A)   the direct election of senators.
B)   prohibition.
C)   women's suffrage.
D)   ending prostitution and white slavery.
E)   treating women in the workplace exactly the same as men.

Question 14

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of

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A)   the need to assert female power against male oppression.
B)   America's need to catch up with more progressive European nations.
C)   women's inherent rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
D)   the harsh treatment of working women by employers.
E)   their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

Question 15

What were the major sources of the progressive movement? Which of those sources were most significant,and why?

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The major sources of the progressive mov...

Question 16

Lincoln Steffens,in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

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A)   exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires' club.
B)   exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas.
C)   laid bare insider trading practices on the stock market.
D)   uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery.
E)   unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

Question 17

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Elkins Act

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Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-the Square Deal

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The Square Deal was a domestic program f...

Question 19

As a part of his reform program,Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except

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A)   guaranteed recognition of labor unions.
B)   federal regulation of corporations.
C)   consumer protection.
D)   conservation of natural resources.
E)   federal regulation of railroad rates and an end to shipping rebates.

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-dollar diplomacy

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Dollar diplomacy refers to a form of Ame...

Exam 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt,1901-1912

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Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eugene V.Debs

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lincoln Steffens

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Elkins Act

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