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33 Cards in this Set
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What was the name of the organization that sponsored the 1914 debate at New York City's Cooper Union on the question "What is feminism?", and whose definition of feminism emphasized greater economic opportunities, the vote, and open discussions of sexuality?
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Heterodoxy
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A principal organization in the early twentieth century that battled for civil liberties and the right of individual freedom of speech was:
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the Industrial Workers of the World.
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What was the name of the organization that advocated a workers' revolution to seize control of the means of production and abolish the state, and which organized women, blacks, as Asian-Americans, as well as white men?
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Industrial Workers of the World
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The Progressive Era economic system based on mass production and mass consumption came to be called:
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Fordism.
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In Progressive-Era America, what particular locale became known as a center of sexual experimentation, attracting women interested in free sexual expression and, with its aura of tolerance, attracted many homosexuals?
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Greenwich Village in New York City
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Which was not a goal of the Socialist Party in the United States at its 1901 founding?
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support for the Soviet Union and nonaligned nations around the world
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The Progressive Era was a time of:
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explosive economic growth, rapid population rise, and increased industrial production, and "Golden Age" for American agriculture.
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Which of the following was not one of the principal "varieties of Progressivism"?
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the proposal to embrace Social Darwinism, and laissez-faire economics
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Progressive-era feminists were
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engaged in a wide range of social causes.
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In 1907, at a time when segregation had become much the norm throughout the South, in which city did a strike of 10,000 black and white dockworkers take place, as a remarkable expression of interracial solidarity?
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New Orleans, Louisiana
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Which of the following was not a theme of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle?
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the disruptive effects of unions on industrial efficiency
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Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?
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assassination of President McKinley; Meat Inspection Act; unveiling of Woodrow Wilson's "New Freedom" program; Federal Reserve Act
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In Charlotte Perkins Gilman's view, as she wrote in her influential book Women and Economics (1898):
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prevailing gender norms condemned women to a life of domestic drudgery;
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Pope Leo XIII's 1894 Rerum Novarum, and the Catholic priest Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage (1906), called for all of the following except:
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the view that the Catholic Church should in no way become involved in discussions of wages, working conditions, and the ethical basis of the free market economy.
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Between 1901 and 1914,
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13 million immigrants came to the United States.
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Who was the early-twentieth-century governor of Wisconsin, who made that state a "laboratory for democracy," developed what came to be known as the Wisconsin Idea, taxed corporate wealth, and initiated state regulation of public utilities?
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Robert M. LaFollette
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Progressive-era writers and photographers seeking to expose the underside of urban-industrial society were known as:
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Muckrakers.
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The term "Progressive" that came into common use around 1910 describes:
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a loosely defined political movement of individuals and groups who hoped to bring about social and political change in American life.
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Which of the following was not a key element of the Progressive ideology?
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Government has proven so corrupt and ineffective that it can never be a vehicle for improving society; Progressives must rely on their own voluntary initiatives.
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The view that the foremost social problem in America lay in the contradiction between "political liberty" and "industrial slavery" was held by:
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Louis D. Brandeis.
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Which was not a group associated with the Progressive movement?
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sharecroppers in the Northwest
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The 1909 "uprising of the 20,000" was:
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a walkout of garment workers, which led to a victory for the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union.
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Who was the woman best known during the second decade of the twentieth century for promoting birth control?
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Margaret Sanger
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Who was the leading Socialist Party figure who ran for the presidency of the United States on several occasions?
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Eugene V. Debs
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Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind Progressivism?
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a) a desire to free American culture from its obsession with morality and values
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Which of the following was not true of the 1912 election?
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Once elected, Wilson surprised many by shifting toward a conservative, anti-Progressive position.
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All of the following were muckrakers, except:
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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The 1912, the mill workers strike that had the greatest impact on public consciousness in Progressive-Era America took place in:
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Lawrence, Massachusetts.
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The organization of middle-class and upper-class women and impoverished immigrants founded in 1903 to bring women workers into unions was called the:
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Women's Trade Union League.
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Which of the following was not a significant part of Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive agenda?
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expanding the rights of all Americans regardless of race
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Who was the Progressive-Era mayor of Toledo who founded night schools, built new parks, established kindergartens, and supported the right of workers to unionize?
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Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones
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The amendment to the United States Constitution that provides that United States senators will be chosen by popular vote rather than by state legislatures is:
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The Seventeenth Amendment
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The 1914 Ludlow Massacre was:
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an attack by militia against a tent city of striking workers in Colorado.
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