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Which of the following best describes the type of people who were drawn to the Progressive movement?
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They were of all political parties, social classes, races and religions.
hey were mostly racial minorities who sought to remedy racial injustice.
They were mostly Republicans and tended to be wealthy.
They were mostly Democratic and tended to be working class.
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Which other political movement in US history was similar to Progressivism in that both wanted to fight corruption and both sought to eliminate the perceived abuses of big business?
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The Whig Party
The Populists
The libertarian party
The Anti-Imperialist movement
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Which of the following best describes the type of people who were drawn to the Progressive movement?
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Which other political movement in US history was similar to Progressivism in that both wanted to fight corruption and both sought to eliminate the perceived abuses of big business?
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All of the following were major goals of Progressives EXCEPT:
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Who gave the progressive investigative journalists the nickname “muckrakers”?
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What city did Lincoln Steffens profile in his famous 1902 muckraking piece “The Shame of the Cities”?
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Theodore Dreiser, a Midwesterner raised in poverty, published _________________ in 1900. His provocative novel traces the fate of a…(person) drawn into the brutal urban worlds of Chicago and New York.
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. A new style of Christianity popular in the early 20th century that deemphasized personal salvation and instead focused on doing good works to help the poor and bring about God’s kingdom in the here and now was called:
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The progressive woman who founded the Settlement House in Chicago known as Hull House was:
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Hull House and other settlement houses were important to the development of this field:
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Why was the effort to ban child labor slow to achieve their goal?
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The results of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York were that:
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Which Texas city was leveled by a hurricane and as a result created the “City Commission” form of city government in order to rebuild. (This government had the city run by “experts” rather than political machines or bosses.)
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Robert M. Lafolette, the governor of ________________ was the first to establish direct primary elections where citizens themselves voted to select party nominees for upcoming elections.
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Which of the following reforms gave people the power to put a proposed new law directly on the ballot in the next election by collecting signatures on a petition?
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The 17th amendment to the US Constitution did this:
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Theodore Roosevelt called his progressive agenda:
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Which regulatory agency was tasked with regulating the rates that railroads charged consumers? (TR strengthened the powers of this agency)
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Roosevelt’s trust busting could best be described as:
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How did Theodore Roosevelt’s view about natural resources differ with naturalists like California’s John Muir?
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True or False: The unaccountable and ill-advised actions of the Government Agency which regulated railroad prices contributed to the Panic of 1907, a major stock market collapse.
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What did the National Reclamation Act of 1902 do?
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Which of the following was one way in which William Howard Taft was different than Theodore Roosevelt?
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One way in which Woodrow Wilson’s “New Freedom” proposal in the election of 1912 differed from Theodore Roosevelt’s New Nationalism was:
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Woodrow Wilson lowered tariffs when he first came in as president. How did he propose to make up the revenue for the government that was lost due to the lower tariff?
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The Federal Reserve Act involved the nations:
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Which Federal Agency was created during Wilson’s presidency to regulate business practices that might lead to monopoly and also to regulate false advertising?
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Which act was described as “labor’s Magna Carta” because it exempted labor unions from anti-trust lawsuits?
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(extra credit) Who is considered the “father of progressive education” because he criticized schools for teaching fact memorization rather than the skill of creative thinking?
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(extra credit) Who did Theodore Roosevelt hire as the head of the US forest service? (This person was fired during the Taft administration)
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(extra credit) Woodrow Wilson was the governor of this state prior to becoming president.