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20 Cards in this Set
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Most Progressives agreed that the government should
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protect workers and help the poor
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Woodrow Wilson won the presidential election of 1912, partly due to
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a split in the Republican vote.
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President Wilson established the Federal Reserve System to
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reorganize the federal banking system.
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Progressivism was halted by
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World War I.
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Which belief was held by most Progressives?
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The government should be more accountable to its citizens.
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In 1906, Upton Sinclair’s novel entitled The Jungle exposed dangerous workplace conditions
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in the meatpacking industry.
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Journalists known as muckrakers worked at
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exposing political and business corruption.
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One goal that Progressives did not seek was
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a ban on strikes.
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Roosevelt vigorously enforced policies dealing with
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the Sherman Antitrust Act.
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The Clayton Antitrust Act was especially favored by
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labor unions.
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As a measure to prevent bank failures, President Wilson helped create the
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Federal Reserve System.
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The progressive movement focused mainly on the problems of
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Urban (city) residents.
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By the time NAWSA was formed in 1890, women could
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buy and sell property.
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The anti-suffrage movement argued that if women could vote, they would
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become too masculine.
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The battle for women’s suffrage ended with the ratification of the
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Nineteenth Amendment.
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What action did President Roosevelt take in the United Mine Workers’ strike in 1902?
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He sent in arbitrators to resolve the dispute.
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One way reformers hoped to end corruption in government was to
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give voters more direct say in lawmaking.
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During the Progressive Era many states
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abolished child labor.
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President Roosevelt’s Progressive record included all the following except
a. conservation of forest land. b. break-up of several trusts deemed harmful to the public. c. regulation of food and drugs. d. establishment of the Federal Reserve System. |
establishment of the Federal Reserve System.
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One way President Taft continued Roosevelt’s Progressive programs was by
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pursuing antitrust cases against big businesses.
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