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While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that |
American society was capable of improvement
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At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists |
were "antimonopoly" and feared concentrated power
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Thorstein Veblen argued that |
modern cities should rely on a handful of experts to solve their social problems
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Regarding organizing the professions during the Progressive Era, by World War I, |
all states had established professional bar associations
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During the progressive era, the “new woman” was a product of |
Social and Economic Change all of the above |
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In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, |
both a & b 39 states partial woman suffrage, 15 full |
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The initiative and referendum were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken the power of |
state legislatures Poor state legislature and party bosses |
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The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken |
political parties |
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In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City, |
strict regulations were imposed on factory owners
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The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff |
was intended to weaken the power of business trusts
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In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress |
passed a graduated income tax
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The Federal Reserve Act |
created a new type of paper currency
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The 1916 Keating-Own Act was the first federal law regulating
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child labor |
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The 1904 “Roosevelt Corollary” |
stated that the US had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries |
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Was invalidated by the Supreme Court during the Wilson administration |
Lockner v. New York |
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Stated that neighboring countries had to adhere to US policy in times of war |
Good Neighbor policy |
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Stated that the US had a right to intervene in the affairs of neighboring countries |
Good Neighbor policy
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The policy idea behind “Dollar Diplomacy” was to |
extend investments by the US in less-developed regions
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In the early twentieth century, the United States’ actions toward Mexico included |
all answers are correct A and B?
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On the eve of the Great War, the chief rivalry in Europe was between |
Germany and Great Britain |
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In mid-1916, President Woodrow Wilson |
strongly supported a rapid increase of the nation’s armed forces |
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The so-called “Zimmermann telegram” |
included a proposal for the return of the American Southwest to Mexico |
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In March 1917, the United States moved closer to entering the Great War when |
the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia |
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As the United States entered World War I, |
Britain and France had few reserves of combat-age men Most occurred in the Atlantic Ocean |
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During WWI, the new technology of warfare |
both a & b |
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During World War I, the War Industries Board |
coordinated government purchases of military supplies |
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The Sabotage Act and the Sedition Act of 1918 |
made illegal any public expression opposing the war |
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In 1918, President Wilson’s “fourteen Points” received significant political support from |
none of these answers are correct |
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In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson antagonized many Republicans |
both a & b |
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During the Red Scare of 1919, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer |
raided radical centers and arrest 6,000 people |
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Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the US economy |
was relatively inactive |
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In the 1920s, the development of practical radio communication was furthered by |
the theory of modulation |
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During the 1920s, most American industrial workers experienced all of the following EXCEPT |
few opportunities to join a company union
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In the 1920s, “welfare capitalism” |
was a paternalistic approach used by corporate leaders on their workers |
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During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor |
believed workers should be organized on the basis of skills
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In the workplace, the “open shop” meant |
no worker was required to join a union |
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During the 1920s, the Brotherhood of Sleep Car Porters |
was one of the few unions led by African Americans |
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During the 1920s, all of the following immigrant groups were increasing their presence in the labor force in the West and Southwest EXCEPT the |
Chinese |
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In the 1920s bestseller, The Man Nobody Knows, Jesus Christ was portrayed as |
a salesman |
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In the 1920s, “behavioral” psychologists argued |
mothers should rely on trained experts for advice in raising children |
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In the 1920s, a growing interest in birth control among middle-class women resulted from |
the attitude that sexual activity should not be for procreation only |
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The Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921 |
provided federal funds for child healthcare programs |
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Enrollment in colleges and universities increased threefold between 1900 and 1930, with much of that increase occurring after |
World War I
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In his 1925 novel, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald |
criticized the American obsession with material wealth |
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In the 1920s, artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance |
drew heavily from their African heritage
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During the 1920s, as a result of the Eighteenth Amendment, |
both a & b |
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The National Origins Act of 1924 |
entirely banned immigration from east Asia to the US |
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During the 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan |
opposed the existing diversity of American society |
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During the Harding administrations, the Teapot Dome scandal involved |
transfers of national oil reserves |
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As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover considered himself |
an active progressive for business |
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To Herbert Hoover, “associationalism” meant |
the creation of national organizations of businessmen in particular industries |
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Throughout the late nineteenth century, the federal government |
was relatively inactive |
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The Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 |
was used by the federal government against labor unions |
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The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 |
both a & b |
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In 1892, the People’s Party called for |
a government network of crop warehouses |
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In 1896, the major economic issue for William McKinley’s administration was |
the desire for higher tariffs |
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American agriculture at the turn of the century benefited from |
foreign crop failures |
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The author of The Influence of Sea Power upon History believed the United States |
should take possession of the Hawaiian Islands |
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Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE? |
US Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied |
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Criticisms within the United States of America colonialism included all the following EXCEPT |
the financial costs of administering colonies would require burdensome taxes |
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The “Open Door notes” |
directed to imperial powers in Europe and Asia
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The Chinese Boxer Rebellion of 1900 was directed at |
all foreigners in China |
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Was created as a result of a military crisis in Cuba |
the Soviets removed their missiles from Cuba - NOT CORRECT |
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was |
an effort to make religious faith a tool of social reform |
