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Chapter 24
The Progressive Era
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07/22/2013

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Louis D. Brandeis...
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was the first Jewish member of the Supreme Court.
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Herbert Croly...
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influenced New Nationalism with The Promise of American Life.
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Eugene V. Debs...
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was a Socialist party presidential candidate.
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Henry Demarest Lloyd...
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wrote Wealth against Commonwealth.
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Alton B. Parker...
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was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1904.
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Theodore Roosevelt...
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was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1912.
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Upton Sinclair...
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wrote The Jungle.
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William H. Taft...
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was chief justice of the United States in the 1920s.
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Frederick W. Taylor...
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was the original "efficiency expert."
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Woodrow Wilson...
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implemented the New Freedom program.
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True/False: Progressives generally believed government should not interfere with big business.
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False
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True/False: Socialism was an antecedent to progressivism.
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True
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True/False: Theodore Roosevelt gave muckrakers their name.
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True
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True/False: The popular election of senators required a constitutional amendment.
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True
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True/False: The phrase Square Deal is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.
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True
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True/False: Theodore Roosevelt took a strong, activist approach to the presidency.
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True
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True/False: One of Taft's major issues became his support for high tariffs.
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True
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True/False: William H. Taft achieved the most significant tariff reduction of any progressive president.
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False
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True/False: Theodore Roosevelt initiated more anti-trust suits than any president in history.
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False
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True/False: Woodrow Wilson was a minster's son who grew up in the South.
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True
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True/False: Wilson was a weak president who trusted Congress to adopt the proper policies.
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False
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True/False: William Howard Taft finished second in the presidential election of 1912.
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False
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True/False: Woodrow Wilson was elected president in 1908.
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False
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True/False: The Underwood-Simmons bill created the first regular federal income tax.
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False
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True/False: Theodore Roosevelt considered the Federal Trade Commission to be the cornerstone of his program for big business.
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True
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True/False: Federal money for farm demonstration agents was approved in the Adamson Act.
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False
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In the progressive period:
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many groups-blacks, the poor, the unorganized-had little influence.
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The muckrakers saw their primary objective as:
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exposing social problems to the public.
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Progressives supported all of the following as measures to democratize government: initiative, referendum, party primary, and popular election of senators EXCEPT:
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the poll tax.
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The originator of the "Wisconsin Idea" of efficient government was:
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Robert M. La Follette.
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Which of the following best describes the method used by most progressives to solve the problem of economic power and its abuses?
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Regulate big business.
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The National Child Labor Committee pushed:
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for laws banning the widespread employment of young children.
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Frances Willard lobbied:
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for women to become ministers.
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In 1917 a prohibition amendment to the Constitution:
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was overturned by the Twenty-first Amendment.
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In the case of Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court:
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voided a state-legislated ten-hour day because it violated workers' "liberty of contract."
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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in 1911:
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workers died as a result of a fire.
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During the coal strike:
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President Theodore Roosevelt won support for his use of the "big stick" against big business.
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All of the following statements regarding coal are true: in 1902 Roosevelt threatened to take over coal mines in West Virginia and Pennsylvania, Rutherford Hayes and Grover Cleveland sent federal troops to coal country during periods of labor unrest, Taft had a problem with U.S. Steel acquiring Tennessee Coal and Iron, and Ballinger turned over coal lands in Alaska to Seattle tycoons EXCEPT:
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Roosevelt was too cozy with the coal industry.
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The Hepburn Act of 1906:
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authorized the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum rates for railroads.
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In the area of conservation, Theodore Roosevelt:
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used the Forest Reserve Act to protect over 170 million acres of forest.
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In the 1908 presidential race:
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the Democrats once again nominated William Jennings Bryan.
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William Howard Taft:
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was Roosevelt's choice as his successor.
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President Taft's domestic policies generated a storm of controversy:
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within his own party.
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The issue that made Taft seem to be a less reliable custodian of Roosevelt's conservation policies was Taft's:
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handling of the Ballinger and Pinchot affair.
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The Seventeenth Amendment:
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authorized the popular election of U.S. senators.
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Woodrow Wilson was:
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a college president.
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The election of 1912 brought about all of the following EXCEPT:
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it brought the same man to the White House in nonconsecutive terms.
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The Underwood-Simmons Tariff:
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lowered the average tariff and hence was supported by Wilson.
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The Federal Reserve Act did all of the following EXCEPT:
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it shifted the U.S. treasury back to the gold standard.
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Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom platform:
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proposed vigorous anti-trust action to break up corporate concentration.
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The Clayton Anti-Trust Act:
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outlawed price discrimination and interlocking directorates.
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In his first term as president, Wilson did all of the following EXCEPT:
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he failed to reorganized the banking system.
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The Federal Highways Act:
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passed in 1916.
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The Adamson Act of 1916:
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established the eight-hour day for railroad workers.
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