Chapter 18 example #39932

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Why was "the city" the focus of progressive politics?
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Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and most significant changes.
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The "living wage" and the "American standard of living" were an outgrowth of what?
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A mature consumer economy.
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Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?
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He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations.
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What constitutional right did workers claim in defense of their public activism?
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The right to free speech.
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Why did Montezuma call for the abolition of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1916?
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The Bureau had failed to secure Indian self-determination.
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Why did progressive reformers think they had much to learn from the Old World?
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Germans had pioneered several measures of social legislation.
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Which of the following contradictions plagued progressive reformers' ideas on the political press?
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They worked to expand both the electorate and shrink its size through other measures.
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Why were many Americans drawn to the socialist party in the election of 1912?
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The party's proposal to nationalize railroads, banks, and to provide unemployment relief expressed popular progressive thought.
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Why did the Wilson administration impose a graduated income tax in 1913?
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The substantial reduction of duties on imports required Wilson to make up for lost revenue.
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Which of the following was a new governmental institution that Progressives had implemented by 1916 for the protection and advance of "industrial freedom"?
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Independent commissions.
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The Triangle Shirtwaist fire:
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brought in its wake much-needed safety legislation.
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The painters who were part of the Ashcan School focused their art on:
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city life.
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The Progressive movement drew its strength from:
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middle-class reformers.
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During the Progressive era:
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urban development highlighted social inequalities.
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Newspaper and magazine writers who exposed the ills of industrial and urban life, fueling the Progressive movement, were known as:
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muckrakers.
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Which of the following regions did people not migrate to in large numbers between 1840 and 1914?
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China.
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During the Progressive era:
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new immigration from eastern and southern Europe reached its peak.
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Which was the Ellis Island of the West?
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Angel Island.
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Birds of passage were:
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immigrants who planned on returning to their homeland.
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Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the 20th century:
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lived in close-knit communities.
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All of the following statements about mass consumption in the early 20th century are true except:
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southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society.
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Nickolodeons:
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were motion picture theaters with a 5 cent admission charge.
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The new concepts of a "living wage" and the "American standard of living":
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allowed for criticism of the inequalities of wealth and power.
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A worker who crossed a picket line during a strike was called:
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scab.
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In the early 20th century, the Socialist Party advocated for all of the following except:
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national health insurance.
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Eugene V. Debs was:
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a Socialist candidate for president.
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The Industrial Workers of the World:
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advocated a worker's revolution.
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Margaret Sanger was a:
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birth-control advocate.
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All of the following measures expanded democracy during the Progressive era except:
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literary tests and residency requirements.
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Who used the Sherman Antitrust Act to dissolve J.P. Morgan's Northern Securities Company?
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Theodore Roosevelt.
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As a Progressive president, Theodore Roosevelt:
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supported the conservation movement.
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Who was not a candidate during the 1912 presidential election?
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William Jennings Bryan.
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As a Progressive president, Woodrow Wilson:
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signed into law the Keating-Owen Act.
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The progressive interest in addressing political corruption had much to do with the success of:
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mass-circulation magazines.
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What evidence does Eric Foner provide for the argument that political turmoil was another big cause for the massive global migrations of the second half of the 19th and the first 2 decades of the 20th century?
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10% of the Mexican population had migrated to the United States.