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25 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following would best finish the following sentence? |
use the government to improve human welfare.
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Ida Tarbell was a muckraker in the early 20th Century. Which corporation was a target of her exposé? |
Standard Oil Company
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Progressives advocated the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment. What was the purpose of the Seventeenth Amendment? |
direct election of Senators to end the Senate millionaire's club
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Progressives might say that the cure for American democracy's ills was which of the following? |
more democracy |
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Which of the following reasons was not given by activists, scholars, and politicians to explain why socialism did not gain major influence in America? |
law and government policy prevented workers from uniting and protesting
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Why were settlement houses and women's club movements important to female progressive activity? |
they introduced many middle-class women to a array of social issues and civic concerns
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In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the which of the following ideas promoted by progressives? |
female workers required special rules and protection on the job
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Which of the following was a result of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire? |
antisweatshop and workers' compensation for job injuries
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How did Teddy Roosevelt help end the 1902 anthracite coal mines strike? |
threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops
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What was the real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts? |
to prove that the government, not business, governed the U.S.
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Which of the following could be seen as a result of the Panic of 1907? |
exposed need for U.S. banking and currency policy reform
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Which of the following was the name given to Taft's foreign policy? |
dollar diplomacy
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Which correctly identifies the reason Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912? |
Taft had seemingly abandoned Roosevelt's progressive policies
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Which of the following is part of Theodore Roosevelt's legacy as president? |
he enhanced the power and prestige of the presidency
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Which would best describe William Howard Taft as president? |
he was more devoted to the status quo than to progressive change |
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What might be seen as Teddy Roosevelt's most important and lasting achievement while in office? |
conserving American resources and protecting the environment |
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Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, was originally intended to focus attention on which of the following? |
the plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industr |
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What best describes Wilson's personality as the governor of New Jersey? |
passionate reformer |
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Teddy Roosevelt's New Nationalism supported which of the following? |
a broad program of social welfare and business regulation |
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Which of the following best describes Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom? |
favored small enterprise, entrepreneurship, and the busting of monopolies
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Which of the following was most notable about the 1912 presidential election? |
voters had a clear choice of political and economic philosophies |
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Which of the following was not included in Wilson's political philosophy? |
belief that compromise was necessary to be an effective leader
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How did the Underwood Tariff Act and the Sixteenth Amendment reflect Wilson's progressive goals? |
established the first graduated federal income tax
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The Federal Reserve Act of 1913 guaranteed a substantial measure of public control over the American banking and currency system through the great authority given to which of the following? |
presidentially appointed Federal Reserve Board
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Which of the following actions taken by Wilson undermined his attempts to conduct strongly anti-imperialist U.S. foreign policy? |
sent American marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic
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