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US History Final: Test #1
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11th Grade
06/06/2011

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The Social Gospel Movement encouraged people to:
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Follow the Bible's teachings to improve society
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The Urban League:
Definition
Helped poor African Americans to find jobs and meet basic needs
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Which of the following called for African Americans to "pull themselves up from their own bootstraps"?
Definition
Booker T. Washington
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The Farmers' Alliance did which of the following?
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Established postal banks to provide farmers with low-interest loans
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Farmers opposed the gold standard because they claimed it would:
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cause prices of their crops to decline
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The primary goal of the NAACP was:
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Equality amoung the races
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Which statement best characterizes Roosevelt's position on trusts:
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some trusts were harmful to the public interest
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Which statement best characterizes the position of Gifford Pinchot toward land conservation?
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There should be a mix of development and conservation
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during Woodrow Wilson's administration, the federal government attempted to counteract the negative influence of big business by:
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government regulation
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Which of the following best characterizes the muckrackers of the early twentieth century?
Definition
they were leading critics of corruption in America
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The creation of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 did which of the following?
Definition
regulated the supply of money and interest rates
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Which of the following explains why the coal strike of 1902 is considered a turning point in the history of labor-management disputes?
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the president acted as arbitrator in the strike
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most progressives believed the nation needed
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political and economic reform
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progressives favored the city manager system of government because it:
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permitted the initiative and referendum
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The Hepburn Act and the Elkins Act were passed in order to strengthen the:
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Interstate Commerce Comission
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Progressives became disappointed with president Taft becuase he supported:
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the Payne-Aldrich Tarriff Act
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In the election of 1912, which candidate promised a "new freedom"?
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Woodrow Wilson
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which of the following is NOT true about the Clayton Act?
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it regulated child labor
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Which of the following is generally considered a sucess of the Prgressive Movement?
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Passage of laws that gave citizens more control over their government
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The Populist Party:
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provided many ideas that would later be made into laws
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Margaret Sanger
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woman who thought women's lives would be easier if they had less children; advertised birth control
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Jane Adams
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the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
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Many farmers were very unhappy at the end of the 19th century. Write a paragraph, including as many reasons as you can why prices for farm good kept declining when the price for other goods did not.
Definition
Overproduction
law of supply and demand
Morril Land Act (agricultural colleges founded)
agricultural colleges taught farmers how to get the most out of their land
new farming equitment
Horatio Algerism (they failed because they weren't trying hard enough)
Social Darwinism (they were at the bottom of the pyramid because they were inferior)
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Mark Hanna
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raised money for the presidential candidate William McKinley
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Louis Brandeis
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Bob LaFollette
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thought of the Wisconsin Ideal
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John Muir
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The Square Deal
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Roosevelt's plan to help the poor, not the rich and make sure the poor weren't taken advantage of by the rich
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Progressive Movement
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white collar middle-class from both parties who wanted to use govt and new technology to solve govt problems
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Graduated Income Tax
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16th Ammendment
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17th Ammendment
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provided for the direct election of senators
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18th Ammendment
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prohibited the manufacturing, selling, and consuming of alcohol
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19th Ammendment
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gave women the right to vote
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lobbyist
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person who would talk to senators and other leaders in the lobby to try and get them to support their group
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Omaha Platform
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Anti Defamation League
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