Multiple Choice Chapter 20 Self-Quiz 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 correct incorrect

Weekly Standard correct incorrect

McClure's correct incorrect

The Washington Times correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

Because they admired the efficiency of corporate lobbyists. correct incorrect

Because they appreciated corporate efficiency and specialization. correct incorrect

Because they, too, wanted to build a monopoly—in the progressive case, a political monopoly. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

They organized massive protest marches in Washington, DC. correct incorrect

They hired professional lobbying firms to do the work. correct incorrect

They formed a committee that pushed the laws with facts and statistics. correct incorrect

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. Which of the following was a significant concern for urban progressives around the turn of the century?

cigarettes correct incorrect

marijuana correct incorrect

Chinese laundries correct incorrect

prostitution correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

White passengers had stopped using the railroads because of the presence of blacks. correct incorrect

White men demanded the protection of white women from black middle-class riders. correct incorrect

White passenger cars were getting increasingly overcrowded. correct incorrect

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. What percentage of African Americans lived in the South in 1900?

60 percent correct incorrect

70 percent correct incorrect

80 percent correct incorrect

90 percent correct incorrect

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. Who had first proposed the initiative, the referendum, and the recall?

Populists in the 1890s correct incorrect

Southern Democrats prior to the Civil War correct incorrect

Quakers in colonial Pennsylvania correct incorrect

Nativists in the 1850s correct incorrect

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. How did Mississippi effectively eliminate the black vote after 1890?

state-organized lynchings correct incorrect

a disfranchisement amendment correct incorrect

poll taxes correct incorrect

voter registration rules correct incorrect

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. What made the Western Federation of Miners so radical?

They included women. correct incorrect

They included Mexicans. correct incorrect

They employed organized crime. correct incorrect

They rejected the profit system. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

Militant vandals had demolished the escape ladders. correct incorrect

The immigrant workers could not read the exit signs. correct incorrect

The owners had locked the doors of the shop floor. correct incorrect

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. Theodore Roosevelt's platform of "New Nationalism" in the presidential election of 1912 advocated

government expansion. correct incorrect

a smaller government. correct incorrect

lower taxes. correct incorrect

privatization of utilities. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

a smaller government. correct incorrect

lower taxes. correct incorrect

privatization of utilities. correct incorrect

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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. correct incorrect

They feared for fragile progressive reforms in Europe. correct incorrect

They thought that humankind had outgrown war and violence. correct incorrect

They knew that the United States would be dragged in. correct incorrect

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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 correct incorrect

direct action correct incorrect

the art of petition writing correct incorrect

militant threat and intimidation correct incorrect