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Test Description: Review on Progressive Era
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1) Which of the following positions did Eugene Debs, a candidate in the 1912 election, favor?
A
Enactment of a flat income tax
B
Enactment of a longer standard workday
C
The elimination of tariffs
D
Private ownership of railroads and utilities
2) What reforms did Woodrow Wilson achieve during his presidency?
A
The strengthening of the rights of American workers
B
The banking system
C
All of these are correct.
D
The regulation of trusts and monopolies
3) Which of the following practices was made illegal by the Clayton Antitrust Act?
A
Price discrimination
B
Tie-in contracts
C
Both price discrimination and tie-in contracts
D
The 60 hour workweek
4) Why did President Theodore Roosevelt establish the Department of Commerce and Labor?
A
To regulate business
B
To expand voting rights to women
C
To destroy corrupt labor unions
D
To promote the interests of business over labor
5) During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what did political progressives seek?
A
Expanded women's rights
B
All of these are correct
C
A democratic political structure
D
The end of child labor
6) Which American President banned Christmas trees from the White House in order to conserve and protect national resources?
A
William Howard Taft
B
Warren Harding
C
Theodore Teddy Roosevelt
D
Woodrow Wilson
7) Which of the following allowed for the public to elect US Senators directly?
A
A Supreme Court Ruling
B
The 17th Amendment
C
Election reform legislation passed by Congress
D
The Bull Moose Act
8) Which of the following is a method by which voters can propose state laws?
A
initiative
B
petition
C
proposal
D
recall
9) What expanded women's right to vote in the United States?
A
Constitution
B
19th Amendment
C
20th Amendment
D
Bill of Rights
10) Who opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York in 1916?
A
Ida B.Tarbell
B
Carrie Chapman Catt
C
Alice Paul
D
Margaret Sanger
11) What political organization favored factory inspections, workmen's compensation, and child labor laws?
A
Republican Party
B
Progressive Movement
C
Bull Elk Movement
D
Whig Party
12) Which of the following people were influential muckrakers who created public awareness of corruption and social injustices?
A
Lincoln Steffens
B
Upton Sinclair
C
All of these are correct.
D
Ida B.Tarbell
13) What indirectly led to passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
A
Widespread pandemics after World War I
B
Margaret Sanger's factual expose in McClure's magazine
C
Public reaction to Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle
D
Public reaction to the David Graham Phillip novel The Treason of the Senate
14) Which novel was a graphic depiction of the Chicago meat-packing industry?
A
Shame of the Cities
B
Mother of all Trusts
C
The Jungle
D
Slaughterhouse Five
15) Which of these is a true statement about the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?
A
It was strongly challenged by muckrakers but not overturned.
B
It was overturned by the ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
C
It banned the 'Jim Crow' laws in the South.
D
It was strongly endorsed by the Progressive Movement.
16) What Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal, so long as each race was provided for equally?
A
Brown vs. the Board of Education
B
Citizens United
C
Plessy vs. Ferguson
D
Norris vs. Alabama
17) Which political party took the viewpoint that government should take an active role in trying to limit or eliminate human suffering and inequality?
A
Republican Party
B
Whig Party
C
Progressive Movement
D
Free Trade Movement
18) Why was the 1912 election significant?
A
Because a third party candidate managed to win the election.
B
Because Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.
C
Because the winning candidate included many northerners in his cabinet
D
Because it was the height of progressive ideas and rhetoric at the national level.
19) Some early feminists opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because:
A
They believed the ERA added nothing significant to the 19th Amendment.
B
They believed the ERA could potentially hinder gains that already addressed the rights of women in the workforce.
C
The ERA was written by a man, and therefore, they did not feel it reflected women's interests.
D
They believed the ERA was too progressive and would give women more rights than men.
20) How did the approach to ensuring African-American rights of Booker T. Washington differ to that of Ida B. Wells?
A
Washington formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, while Wells was more focused on her lecture
B
They both worked towards raising the standard of African-American rights, but Wells used fiercer rhetoric, while Washington a
C
Ida B. Wells actively supported the Democrats, while Washington believed that the party of Lincoln would return to its old le
D
They both helped form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and hat practically the same approach.
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