Question 1

The politician who advocated a New Nationalism was

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A)   Theodore Roosevelt.
B)   William Howard Taft.
C)   Robert La Follette.
D)   Woodrow Wilson.

Question 2

For most progressives, the twin roots of the evils plaguing American society were racism and poverty.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

Woodrow Wilson's 1912 platform included

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A)   political centralization.
B)   close economic integration.
C)   strict regulation and control of corporations.
D)   restoration of competition.

Question 4

Late-nineteenth-century feminists were handicapped in their campaign for woman suffrage by

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A)   strong opposition in western states.
B)   their demand for an equal rights amendment.
C)   Victorian sexual inhibitions.
D)   their support for equal pay for equal work.

Question 5

Of whom was W. E. B. Du Bois speaking when he said: "He belittles the emasculating effects of caste distinctions, and opposes the higher training and ambitions of our brightest minds"?

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A)   Frederick Douglass
B)   Marcus Garvey
C)   Booker T. Washington
D)   Carter G. Woodson

Question 6

The painters, such as Robert Henri and George Luks, who sympathized with the progressive reforms and who painted city slum scenes were called the

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A)   progressive realists.
B)   abstract expressionists.
C)   Ashcan artists.
D)   socialist realists.

Question 7

The primary result of the 1906 Hepburn Act was to

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A)   prohibit child labor in goods sold in interstate commerce.
B)   make the Federal Food and Drug Administration more powerful and active.
C)   preserve millions of wilderness acres in the West.
D)   make the Interstate Commerce Commission more powerful and active.

Question 8

Taft's major liability as president was his

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A)   sweeping use of executive power.
B)   total reversal of Roosevelt's major policies.
C)   impetuous, aggressive, and spiteful personality.
D)   lack of physical and mental stamina.

Question 9

Progressive reformers tended to believe that

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A)   social evils were due to human sinfulness.
B)   social evils were due to human weakness.
C)   the solution to social problems was to change faulty institutions.
D)   social evils were God's ways of testing his people.

Question 10

The progressives attempted their first political reforms in the

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A)   Senate.
B)   cities.
C)   South.
D)   House of Representatives.

Question 11

The first progressive president and the advocate of the "Square Deal" was

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A)   William McKinley.
B)   Woodrow Wilson.
C)   Theodore Roosevelt.
D)   William H. Taft.

Question 12

Theodore Roosevelt's bookish ways made him cautious about using force.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

Summarize how the progressives viewed minority groups and how minorities responded to the progressives.

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Question 14

A leading magazine editor and crusading reformer of the early twentieth century was

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A)   Eugene V. Debs.
B)   S. S. McClure.
C)   Theodore Roosevelt.
D)   E. A. Ross.

Question 15

Which statement about the progressives' reaction to black militancy is correct?

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A)   Theodore Roosevelt was a founding member of the NAACP.
B)   Woodrow Wilson was actively hostile to blacks.
C)   Theodore Roosevelt believed that justice for blacks in the South would come only by federal intervention.
D)   Woodrow Wilson sponsored the first significant civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

Question 16

During the 1902 coal strike, Theodore Roosevelt took the bold step of calling Congress into special session to pass emergency legislation.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

As part of the New Freedom, the ________ Act prohibited both price discrimination, which encouraged monopolies, and interlocking directorates created to control competition.

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A)   Hepburn
B)   Sherman Antitrust
C)   Clayton Antitrust
D)   Federal Trade

Question 18

The ________ plan was an urban reform, pioneered in Dayton, Ohio, whereby city affairs were administered on a nonpartisan basis by a professional.

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A)   mayoralty
B)   city manager
C)   home rule
D)   city commission

Question 19

Robert La Follette was particularly associated with

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A)   muckraking journalism and character assassination of leading businessmen.
B)   municipal socialism and labor organizing.
C)   prohibitions on selling alcohol and tobacco.
D)   promotion of specialized technical knowledge and legislative reference services to promote progressive reform.

Question 20

How did the theories of Sigmund Freud affect the ideas and behavior of progressive intellectuals?

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A)   They were especially influenced by Freud's essentially dark view of human nature.
B)   They strongly agreed with his view that almost all human behavior was determined by an individual's genetic inheritance.
C)   They agreed with him that eternal archetypes were the fundamental factors in understanding psychology.
D)   They often used Freud's ideas as an excuse to reject Victorian prudery.

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