Question 1

In 1913,the first modern income tax imposed a 10 percent tax on individuals earning over $4,000 a year.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were among the most prominent leaders of the anti-suffrage movement.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

What were the similarities and differences between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as progressive presidents?

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Question 4

The urban political machine Tammany Hall grew increasingly interested in progressive reform during the progressive era.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Which president,Theodore Roosevelt or Woodrow Wilson,was the more successful in domestic policy?

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Question 6

At the turn of the twentieth century,the leaders of the settlement house movement

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A)  eventually saw their ideas and institutions take hold in England.
B)  generally expressed moral disapproval of the behavior of immigrants.
C)  thought assimilation robbed immigrants of the best parts of their culture.
D)  were generally first-generation immigrants who helped second-generation immigrants.
E)  directed their attention at improving urban living conditions.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

As an environmental conservationist,President Theodore Roosevelt

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A)  opposed hunting on all federal lands.
B)  added extensive areas of land to the national forest system.
C)  opposed new dam construction on major rivers.
D)  opposed the growing preservationist movement as impractical.
E)  All these answers are correct.F) C) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 8

The direct primary and the recall were both reforms designed to enhance the power of political parties in the United States.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In the 1912 presidential election,

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A)  President William H.Taft came in last of the four major candidates.
B)  Theodore Roosevelt won the popular vote but lost the electoral college.
C)  Eugene Debs offered his electoral votes to Theodore Roosevelt.
D)  Theodore Roosevelt finished third in the popular vote.
E)  Woodrow Wilson won only a plurality of the popular vote.F) B) and D)
G) B) and C)

Question 10

In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers,President Theodore Roosevelt

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A)  sided with the miners.
B)  sided with the mine owners.
C)  ordered in federal troops to keep the peace.
D)  ordered federal arbitration.
E)  ordered in federal troops to break the strike.F) A) and C)
G) A) and B)

Question 11

During the progressive era,one of the first targets for political reformers was

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A)  Congress.
B)  state governments.
C)  municipal governments.
D)  the judicial system.
E)  the federal bureaucracy.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 12

How do the attitudes and actions of late nineteenth-century progressive reformers compare with the attitudes and actions found in the utopian communities of the early nineteenth century?

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The attitudes and actions of late ninete...

Question 13

Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism called for a strong federal government led by an executive who acted as the "steward of the public welfare."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

While running for the presidency in 1912,Woodrow Wilson called his political philosophy the New ________.

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Question 15

W.B.Du Bois was instrumental in the founding of the Niagara Movement,which later joined sympathetic white progressives to form the ________.

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Question 16

The settlement house movement was built by middle-class reformers to help inner-city residents.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

Woodrow Wilson helped create the Federal Reserve system as part of his effort to end trusts.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

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A)  New York state banned factories from employing women under the age of sixteen.
B)  factories taller than ten stories could only use the upper floors as storage of materials.
C)  few true reforms of industry were made.
D)  strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.
E)  Tammany Democrats attempted to thwart the New York state commission examining the fire.F) A) and C)
G) None of the above

Question 19

At the turn of the twentieth century,Lincoln Steffens wrote extensively of the need to reform

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A)  the "yellow press."
B)  urban politics.
C)  the railroad corporations.
D)  the meatpacking industry.
E)  the federal bureaucracy.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

The "________" Party was the nickname given to Theodore Roosevelt's third party in 1912.

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