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Return to American Horizons: U.S. History in a Global Context 3e Student Resources
Multiple Choice Chapter 20 Self-Quiz 2
Schaller, 3e_MC 20.2
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Which of the following magazines was a known progressive journal in the United States around the turn of the century?
Newsweek
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Weekly Standard
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McClure's
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The Washington Times
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Why did progressives like to employ the tools of the modern corporation to social problems?
Because they knew how profitable corporate enterprise was.
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Because they admired the efficiency of corporate lobbyists.
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Because they appreciated corporate efficiency and specialization.
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Because they, too, wanted to build a monopolyâin the progressive case, a political monopoly.
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How did Florence Kelley and other settlement house workers get child labor laws passed in New York and Illinois early in the 20th century?
They bribed key members of the state legislature.
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They organized massive protest marches in Washington, DC.
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They hired professional lobbying firms to do the work.
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They formed a committee that pushed the laws with facts and statistics.
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Which of the following was a significant concern for urban progressives around the turn of the century?
cigarettes
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marijuana
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Chinese laundries
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prostitution
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Why did southern states begin to pass laws segregating white and black passengers on railroad cards?
Black passengers became increasingly rude and provocative.
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White passengers had stopped using the railroads because of the presence of blacks.
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White men demanded the protection of white women from black middle-class riders.
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White passenger cars were getting increasingly overcrowded.
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What percentage of African Americans lived in the South in 1900?
60 percent
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70 percent
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80 percent
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90 percent
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Who had first proposed the initiative, the referendum, and the recall?
Populists in the 1890s
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Southern Democrats prior to the Civil War
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Quakers in colonial Pennsylvania
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Nativists in the 1850s
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How did Mississippi effectively eliminate the black vote after 1890?
state-organized lynchings
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a disfranchisement amendment
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poll taxes
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voter registration rules
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What made the Western Federation of Miners so radical?
They included women.
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They included Mexicans.
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They employed organized crime.
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They rejected the profit system.
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Which of the following helps explain the large number of victims in the Triangle Waist Company fire in March 1911?
Strikers made it hard for fire trucks to rush to the scene.
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Militant vandals had demolished the escape ladders.
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The immigrant workers could not read the exit signs.
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The owners had locked the doors of the shop floor.
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Theodore Roosevelt's platform of "New Nationalism" in the presidential election of 1912 advocated
government expansion.
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a smaller government.
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lower taxes.
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privatization of utilities.
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Which of the following helped inspire preservationists to expedite the passage of the National Parks Act of 1916?
Congressional approval for damming up Hetch Hetchy.
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a smaller government.
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lower taxes.
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privatization of utilities.
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Why did some progressives receive the news of World War I with utter disillusionment?
They had worked hard to preserve the peace in Europe.
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They feared for fragile progressive reforms in Europe.
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They thought that humankind had outgrown war and violence.
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They knew that the United States would be dragged in.
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What did Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst contribute to the strategy of suffragists in Great Britain and the United States?
political clout
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direct action
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the art of petition writing
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militant threat and intimidation
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