Question 1

The well-known settlement house run by Jane Addams was called

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Question 2

What infuriated the rising middle class of Victorian streetcar suburbs?

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A)   The excessive confidence of professionals.
B)   The arrogance of experts.
C)   The divisions of black and white.
D)   The irresponsibility of corporations.

Question 3

Where business was concerned, the Square Deal included

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A)   The provision that workers receive a cost-of-living increase every quarter.
B)   The provision that workers concede certain demands, such as the eight-hour workday and compulsory overtime pay.
C)   An acknowledgment that business had historically exploited its workers.
D)   An attitude of mutual respect and recognition between employees and employers who would attempt to deal with one another in a fair manner.

Question 4

The United States intervened in the civil war in

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A)   Panama.
B)   Colombia.
C)   Nicaragua.
D)   Dominican Republic.

Question 5

In 1903, President Roosevelt created the Department of Commerce and Labor to

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A)   Implement interstate commerce laws.
B)   Regulate the relationship between corporations and labor unions.
C)   Make corporate activities transparent, or public knowledge.
D)   Equitably divide profits between owners and workers.

Question 6

Ida B. Wells-Barnett exposed __________.

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Question 7

The United Mine Workers' 1902 coal strike resulted in

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A)   The use of federal troops, as was so common in earlier strikes, to put down the strikers.
B)   The federal government siding with corporate owners of the mines.
C)   The deaths of several hundred strikers and troops.
D)   The use of federal arbitration to resolve the strike.

Question 8

President Taft used __________ as an aspect of the Roosevelt Corollary.

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Question 9

Unlike their predecessors, progressives were comfortable with

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A)   An integrated workforce.
B)   Not only a racially integrated workforce but also one that included men and women.
C)   The abandonment of capitalism.
D)   Expanding government power to implement change.

Question 10

The restoration of American democracy, Roosevelt believed, required

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A)   Constitutional reform.
B)   A moral awakening.
C)   A return to states' rights.
D)   A suspension of civil rights.

Question 11

An example of the progressives' ambivalent attitude toward democracy is their belief that

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A)   The federal, state, and local governments were obligated to finance social change.
B)   City governments needed to be more businesslike and less democratic.
C)   American business should divide its profits equally among its workers.
D)   All of the above.

Question 12

All of the following statements except for which one refer to the Socialist Party between 1900 and about 1914?

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A)   It offered a more radical and quicker option for social change.
B)   It caused many less radical Americans to seek social change within the progressive movement.
C)   It was financed by the Communist Party in the United States.
D)   It was a growing political party.

Question 13

Urban living in the United States in the late nineteenth century could be

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A)   Anonymous and impersonal.
B)   A different experience for many Americans from their rural roots.
C)   Dangerous.
D)   All of the above.

Question 14

The "city beautiful" movement sought to

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A)   Make garbage pickup a regular city service.
B)   Soften or improve the city landscape with open spaces and parks.
C)   Enforce regulations and ordinances against horses within city limits.
D)   All of the above.

Question 15

Progressive presidents, like progressive Americans, wanted

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A)   To remake the system even if it meant destroying the system.
B)   Orderly, managed change.
C)   Power to rest with the people because they knew what was best.
D)   All of the above.

Question 16

The "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine came about because

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A)   Germany was planning to buy access to the canal.
B)   European nations planned to build military bases along the canal.
C)   Germany was planning to invade Panama and take control of the canal.
D)   The United States did not want European nations exerting their influence over Latin American nations or officials.

Question 17

The "New Women" of the progressive era symbolized

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A)   The growing strength and influence of American women in social and political change.
B)   A new consumer population untouched by American manufacturing.
C)   A reaction to the feminists in the progressive movement.
D)   The possibilities for remaking the American family.

Question 18

President William Howard Taft's administration was characterized by all of the following except

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A)   The expectation that "dollar diplomacy" would replace force in international affairs.
B)   The signing of the Payne-Aldrich Tariff, which angered more people than it pleased.
C)   The dismissal of Richard Ballinger as the secretary of the interior in a dispute over conservation.
D)   Support for a railroad in China that seemed to undermine the Open Door policy.

Question 19

Writers who sought to expose society's ills were called __________.

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Question 20

Ida B. Wells-Barnett used which of the following tactics to expose the horrors of lynchings?

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A)   Interviews with victims of lynchings.
B)   Photography.
C)   Research, exposure in the popular press, and organization of investigators across the nation.
D)   All of the above.

Exam 19: A United Body of Action, 1900-1916

All of the following statements except for which one refer to the Socialist Party between 1900 and about 1914?

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In 1903, President Roosevelt created the Department of Commerce and Labor to

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Urban living in the United States in the late nineteenth century could be

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What infuriated the rising middle class of Victorian streetcar suburbs?

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Unlike their predecessors, progressives were comfortable with

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The restoration of American democracy, Roosevelt believed, required

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The "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine came about because

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The "New Women" of the progressive era symbolized

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President William Howard Taft's administration was characterized by all of the following except

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett used which of the following tactics to expose the horrors of lynchings?

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The "city beautiful" movement sought to

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Progressive presidents, like progressive Americans, wanted

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The United States intervened in the civil war in

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Where business was concerned, the Square Deal included

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The United Mine Workers' 1902 coal strike resulted in

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Ida B. Wells-Barnett exposed __________.

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The well-known settlement house run by Jane Addams was called

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Writers who sought to expose society's ills were called __________.

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President Taft used __________ as an aspect of the Roosevelt Corollary.

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An example of the progressives' ambivalent attitude toward democracy is their belief that

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