The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is:
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The Seventeenth Amendment
Who was the Progressive-Era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?
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Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
Who was the early twentieth- governor of Wisconsin, who believed that the state was a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?
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Sel
Robert M. LaFollette
What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized greater economic opportunities, the vote, and open discussions of sexuali
Heterodoxy
Question 18
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In Progressive-Era America, what particular locale became known as a center of sexual experimentation, attracting women interested in free sexual expression and, with its aura of tolerance, attracted many homosexuals?
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Greenwich Village in New York City
Question 19
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Who was the woman best known during the second decade of the twentieth century for promoting birth control?
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Margaret Sanger
The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was:
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an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.
Question 15
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In 1907, at a time when segregation had become much the norm throughout the South, in which city did a strike of 10,000 black and white dockworkers take place, as a remarkable expression of interracial solidarity?
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New Orleans, Louisiana
Question 16
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A principal organization in the early twentieth century that battled for civil liberties and the right of individual freedom of speech was:
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the Industrial Workers of the World.
The Progressive Era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called:
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Fordism.
Question 12
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Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906) called for all of the following except:
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the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.
Question 13
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What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, as Asian-Americans, as well as white men?
Industrial Workers of the World
The Progressive Era was a time of:
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explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, and increased industrial production, and "Golden Age" for American agriculture.
Question 8
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All of the following were muckrakers, except:
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Theodore Roosevelt.
Question 9
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Between 1901 and 1914,
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13 million immigrants came to the United States.
Question 10
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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view, as she wrote in her influential book Women and Economics (1898):
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prevailing gender norms condemned women to a life of domestic drudgery; women were oppressed, and a housewife was an unproductive parasite.
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The 1909 "uprising of the 20,000" was:
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a walkout of garment workers, which led to a victory for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
Question 5
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The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the:
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Women's Trade Union League.
Question 6
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The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes:
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a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as:
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Muckrakers.
Question 2
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Progressive-era feminists were
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engaged in a wide range of social causes.
Question 3
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act
In the Progressive Era, industry was on the rise and agriculture was in decline.
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False
Question 2
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Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe showed little interest in emerging forms of popular entertainment such as amusement parks, dance halls, and nickelodeons.
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False
Question 3
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One of the main principles of Frederick W. Taylor's "scientific management" was the submission of workers to the dictates of their supervisors.
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True
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As president, Theodore Roosevelt was determined to break up every business trust he could find.
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False
Question 5
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At times Progressives sought to expand popular democracy, and at times they sought to restrict it.
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True
Question 6
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Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism" called for vigorous federal intervention in the economy, while Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" called on government to stay out of business affairs.
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False
Women reformers devoted little attention to labor conditions, regarding that as a "man's issue."
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False
Question 8
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The new radical "bohemia" that thrived in places like Greenwich Village explored fresh ways of thinking about politics, culture, and sexuality.
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True
Question 9
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In the early twentieth century, New York City was a center of finance, publishing, and entertainment, but there was almost no manufacturing going on in the city.
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False
Question 10
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The 1911, Triangle Fire was a fire in a triangular region of Massachusetts between the towns of Worcester, Boston, and Salem.
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False
Question 11
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Historians call the period of American history from the closing years of the nineteenth century into the second decade of the twentieth century the Progressive era.
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True
Question 12
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The Progressive era was a time of economic expansion that produced millions of new jobs and brought unprecedented material wealth to millions of Americans.
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True
Question 13
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During the Progressive era, the Imperial Valley of California was transformed by irrigation and became a major area of commercial farming.
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True
Question 14
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Directly or indirectly, J. P. Morgan controlled 40 percent of the financial and industrial capital in the United States in the opening years of the twentieth century.
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True
Question 15
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By 1910, almost 60 percent of workers in leading manufacturing and mining industries were foreign-born.
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True
Question 16
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By the 1910s, women worked not only as domestic servants, but also as office workers, telephone operators, and store clerks.
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True
Question 17
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Mabel Dodge's New York living room was the location of a famed "salon" in which bohemian intellectuals and intelligentsia gathered to discuss issues of sexual liberation, modern trends in art, and labor unrest.
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S
True
Question 18
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"Social legislation" includes governmental action taken to address urban problems and the insecurities of working-class life.
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True
Question 19
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The politics of Progressivism was almost solely a North American phenomenon.
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False
Question 20
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The initiative, referendum, and recall were all early twentieth-century means by which democracy was expanded.
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True
Question 21
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During the Progressive Era, city managers and nonpartisan commissions ran many municipalities.
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True
One current of Progressive-era political thought promoted the view that experts�college professors and others able to apply scientific methods to modern social problems�ought to direct government policy.
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True
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By 1900, more than 80,000 women in the United States had earned college degrees.
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True
Question 24
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Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head a federal agency; in 1912 she took up leadership of the Children's Bureau.
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True
Question 25
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After 1900, the campaign for woman suffrage became a mass movement; membership in the American Woman Suffrage Association was more than 2 million by 1917.
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True
Question 26
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By 1900, more than half of the states allowed women to vote on school issues, and four Western states allowed women full suffrage.
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True
Question 27
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Massachusetts became the first state east of the Mississippi to allow women the right to vote in presidential elections.
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False
Question 28
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After 1910, mothers' pensions�aid given to mothers of young children who lacked male support�were established by many states; though, to be sure, the amounts of the monthly checks given to such mothers was small and oft
True
Question 29
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Feminists who supported mothers' pensions believed these pensions would empower single women.
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True
Question 30
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By 1913, twenty-two states had enacted workmen's compensation laws.
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True
Question 31
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The first World Series was played in 1903.
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True
Question 32
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Theodore Roosevelt was the youngest president in American history.
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True
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President Theodore Roosevelt distinguished between "good" and "bad" corporations, and in the Northern Securities Company case made his mark as a trust buster.
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True
Question 34
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An example of President Roosevelt's activism was his handling of the anthracite coal strike of 1902, in which he threatened a federal takeover of the mines.
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True
Question 35
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A significant step in the expansion of federal power over the economy was taken in 1906 with passage of the Hepburn Act, which allowed the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set railroad rates.
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True
Question 36
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Another important example of federal intervention and a new activism on the part of the national government into the economy was passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) by which the federal government became the ag
True
Question 37
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Gifford Pinchot held that logging, mining, and grazing on public lands should be eliminated.
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False
Question 38
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The Sixteenth Amendment made the income tax constitutional.
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True
Question 39
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The 1912 Progressive Party platform set out a blueprint for a modern welfare state.
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True
Question 40
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The Underwood Tariff imposed a graduated income tax on the richest 5 percent of Americans.
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True
Question 41
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The Federal Reserve System (1913), and the Federal Trade Commission (1914) were major examples of the remarkable expansion of the role of the federal government in the economy during the Progressive Era.
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True