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To help the conservation movement, Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill requiring manufacturers to limit the use of fossil fuels.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The ______ Amendment helped expand voting rights by allowing voters, and not state legislatures, to elect senators.
a) Seventeenth
b) Eighteenth
c)
d)

A union member might have claimed that ______ was unfair because its emphasis on competition caused managers to consider profits more important than safe working conditions.
a) voing drives
b) socialism
c) capitalism
d) voting leagues

During the Gilded Age, American reformers called for an end to ______, the practice of giving government jobs to supporters after a candidate wins an election.
a) civil service
b) the spoils system
c) National Urban League
d) the recall

______'s reforms angered Progressives because they did not destroy trusts completely.
a) William Jennings Bryan
b) William Howard Taft
c) Alice Paul
d) Julia Ward Howe

______ founded the National Woman's Party (NWP).
a) Theodore Roosevelt
b) William Jennings Bryan
c) Julia Ward Howe
d) Alice Paul

Which of these reforms allowed voters to overrule a law that government had proposed or passed?
a) direct primary
b) the initiative
c) the referendum
d) the recall

In its first decade, the ______ brought attention to racial inequality by using the courts to fight grandfather clauses that had been used to prevent African Americans in the South from voting.
a) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
b) National Urban League
c) civil service
d) spoils system

Journalists who wrote about problems in society during the Progressive age were known as
a) Progressives.
b) reformers.
c) muckrakers.
d) capitalists.

What was the main reason for the rise in Mexican immigration between 1901 and 1930?
a) Mexicans immigrated with their children and extened families
b) Mexicans could occupy areas that once belonged to Mexico
c) Mexicans became a key part of the Southwest economy
d) Mexicans could cross the U.S. border with relative ease

Who encouraged African Americans to improve their economic and educational opportunities rather than fight discrimination directly
a) Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b) Ida B. Wells
c) Brooker T. Washington
d) W.E.B. Du. Bois

Which statement best describes the result of workplace laws passed during the Progressive movement?
a) increased trust between labor and big business
b) eased reformers' minds but were not always enforced
c) caused big business to take operations abroad
d) led to decreased governmnet interference in the economy

Child labor continued even after the reforms of the early 1900s because
a) the courts established high child wage rates.
b) greedy factory owners lied about workers' age.
c) poor families needed the income, however little.
d) the courts established high child wage rates.

Theodore Roosevelt's idea for balancing the interests of consumers, laborers, and businesspeople was called
a) the Great Society.
b) the Fair Play Accord.
c) the Square Deal.
d) the New Way.

Politicians best confronted corruption in Washington during the Gilded Age by
a) increasing security at the polls.
b) passing a law that established a new system for granting federal jobs.
c) recruiting honest, reforminded candidates to run for office.
d) identifying it as a partisan problem.

William Howard Taft's main criticism of President Theodore Roosevelt was that he
a) opposed big business regulation.
b) claimed more power for his presidency than the Constiution allowed.
c) hurt conservation efforts by leasing public lands to big business.
d) encouraged the formation of monopolies.

Business leaders opposed granting women the right to vote mainly because they thought
a) women should focus on the prohibition of alcohol.
b) women voters would support government anticorruption efforts.
c) only married women should have a voice in government.
d) women voters would support minimum wage and child labor laws.

City and county politics in the late 1800s were influenced by organizations called
a) political machines.
b) political mobs.
c) voting leaques.
d) voting drives.

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and other accidents led to passage of laws improving factory safety.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

A major aim of the Society of American Indians was to preserve Native Americans' traditional culture.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

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