Question 1

Theodore Roosevelt was both a progressive reformer and decidedly conservative.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

During the progressive era,political "interest groups"

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A)  rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.
B)  were attacked by progressive reformers.
C)  gradually became less powerful as time went on.
D)  were attacked by progressive reformers and gradually became less powerful as time went on.
E)  All these answers are correct.F) C) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 3

One of the leading exponents of the Social Gospel was Samuel Gompers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The person who was the most powerful symbol of the progressive reform impulse at the national level was ________.

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Question 5

What accounted for the great public popularity of Theodore Roosevelt? Do you think he would be popular with today's voters?

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Question 6

Jane Addams is most noted for establishing the ________ House in Chicago.

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Question 7

In the early twentieth century,the theory of 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)  were 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) B) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 8

For western states during the progressive era,the major target for political reformers was

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A)  the federal government.
B)  state governments.
C)  municipal governments.
D)  the judicial system.
E)  Chinese tongs.F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 9

The most distinctive quality of women in professions during the progressive era was that

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A)  women did not dominate any single profession.
B)  women could not attain advanced degrees from American universities.
C)  women did not generally create their own professional organizations.
D)  "women's professions," unlike other professions,did not attempt to exclude anyone.
E)  women were concentrated in professions that society considered "suitable."F) C) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 10

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) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 11

In the presidential campaign of 1912,

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A)  President William H.Taft won all of the Republican presidential primaries.
B)  President William H.Taft won re-nomination after a bitter fight at the convention.
C)  Theodore Roosevelt eventually threw his support behind Woodrow Wilson.
D)  Theodore Roosevelt ultimately ran on a third-party ticket.
E)  Theodore Roosevelt was the candidate of choice for Old Guard conservatives.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

During the progressive era,employers were generally unconcerned about the problem of alcohol.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 13

The new middle class of the turn of the century placed a high value on moral values,but not on formal education.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

What social attitudes in America worked for and against the concept of women having the right to vote?

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Question 15

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

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

Question 16

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,the "Social Gospel" was

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A)  a reform movement guided by the American Catholic Church.
B)  first described by Andrew Carnegie.
C)  an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform.
D)  intended to offer spiritual,not material,assistance to the poor.
E)  a belief that God had chosen the rich to be rich and the poor to be poor.F) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

What were called "Boston marriages" were consistent with the phenomenon of the "new woman."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Thorstein Veblen argued that

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A)  only the wealthy leisure class had adequate time and money to help the needy.
B)  modern societies should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems.
C)  true social reform would only occur if the nation's wealth were redistributed.
D)  the leaders of corporations were the natural choice to create social reform.
E)  the philanthropy of industrial tycoons had subverted the natural workings of society.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 19

Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel,The Jungle,encouraged the federal government to regulate the

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A)  railroad industry.
B)  steel industry.
C)  housing industry.
D)  meatpacking industry.
E)  oil industry.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 20

In 1902,President Roosevelt intervened in a strike involving the ________ industry.

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