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Which of the following positions did Eugene Debs, a candidate in the 1912 election, favor?
a) The elimination of tariffs
b) Enactment of a flat income tax
c) Private ownership of railroads and utilities
d) Enactment of a longer standard workday

What reforms did Woodrow Wilson achieve during his presidency?
a) All of these are correct.
b) The regulation of trusts and monopolies
c) The strengthening of the rights of American workers
d) The banking system

Which of the following practices was made illegal by the Clayton Antitrust Act?
a) Both price discrimination and tie-in contracts
b) The 60 hour workweek
c) Tie-in contracts
d) Price discrimination

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 promote the interests of business over labor
d) To destroy corrupt labor unions

During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, what did political progressives seek?
a) All of these are correct
b) A democratic political structure
c) Expanded women's rights
d) The end of child labor

Which American President banned Christmas trees from the White House in order to conserve and protect national resources?
a) Theodore Teddy Roosevelt
b) Woodrow Wilson
c) William Howard Taft
d) Warren Harding

Which of the following allowed for the public to elect US Senators directly?
a) The 17th Amendment
b) The Bull Moose Act
c) A Supreme Court Ruling
d) Election reform legislation passed by Congress

Which of the following is a method by which voters can propose state laws?
a) initiative
b) petition
c) recall
d) proposal

What expanded women's right to vote in the United States?
a) 19th Amendment
b) Bill of Rights
c) 20th Amendment
d) Constitution

Who opened the first birth control clinic in Brooklyn, New York in 1916?
a) Margaret Sanger
b) Carrie Chapman Catt
c) Ida B.Tarbell
d) Alice Paul

What political organization favored factory inspections, workmen's compensation, and child labor laws?
a) Progressive Movement
b) Republican Party
c) Whig Party
d) Bull Elk Movement

Which of the following people were influential muckrakers who created public awareness of corruption and social injustices?
a) All of these are correct.
b) Upton Sinclair
c) Ida B.Tarbell
d) Lincoln Steffens

What indirectly led to passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act?
a) Public reaction to Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle
b) Margaret Sanger's factual expose in McClure's magazine
c) Public reaction to the David Graham Phillip novel The Treason of the Senate
d) Widespread pandemics after World War I

Which novel was a graphic depiction of the Chicago meat-packing industry?
a) The Jungle
b) Shame of the Cities
c) Mother of all Trusts
d) Slaughterhouse Five

Which of these is a true statement about the Supreme Court ruling in Plessy vs. Ferguson?
a) It was overturned by the ruling in Brown vs. the Board of Education.
b) It was strongly endorsed by the Progressive Movement.
c) It banned the 'Jim Crow' laws in the South.
d) It was strongly challenged by muckrakers but not overturned.

What Supreme Court case ruled that segregation was legal, so long as each race was provided for equally?
a) Plessy vs. Ferguson
b) Brown vs. the Board of Education
c) Citizens United
d) Norris vs. Alabama

Which political party took the viewpoint that government should take an active role in trying to limit or eliminate human suffering and inequality?
a) Progressive Movement
b) Republican Party
c) Whig Party
d) Free Trade Movement

Why was the 1912 election significant?
a) Because it was the height of progressive ideas and rhetoric at the national level.
b) Because a third party candidate managed to win the election.
c) Because the winning candidate included many northerners in his cabinet
d) Because Republicans controlled both houses of Congress.

Some early feminists opposed passage of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) because:
a) They believed the ERA could potentially hinder gains that already addressed the rights of women in the workforce.
b) The ERA was written by a man, and therefore, they did not feel it reflected women's interests.
c) They believed the ERA was too progressive and would give women more rights than men.
d) They believed the ERA added nothing significant to the 19th Amendment.

How did the approach to ensuring African-American rights of Booker T. Washington differ to that of Ida B. Wells?
a) They both worked towards raising the standard of African-American rights, but Wells used fiercer rhetoric, while Washington a
b) They both helped form the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and hat practically the same approach.
c) Washington formed the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, while Wells was more focused on her lecture
d) Ida B. Wells actively supported the Democrats, while Washington believed that the party of Lincoln would return to its old le

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