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The Progressive Era: Chapter 9 Review
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1. What movements aim was to restore opportunities and correct injustices in American life?
d. Expansionist
a. Imperialist
c. Populist
b. Progressive
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4. A bill that originates from the people rather than legislators is known as
c. an initiative
b. a referendum
a. a recall
d. an amendment
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14. What did Upton Sinclair expose in
The Jungle
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d. illegal deals between special interests and government
c. unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
b. corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
a. dangers faced by coal miners
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9. What does NAWSA stand for?
a. National American Woman Service Association
c. National American Woman Scientists Association
b. National American Woman Suffrage Association
d. National American Workers and Servants Association
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5. What allows voters to remove public officials from elected office?
a. a recall
d. an amendment
b. a referendum
c. an initiative
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17. What was the primary goal of the NAACP?
b. regulation of the banking industry
c. better working conditions
a. voting rights for women
d. equality among the races
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3. What are Muckrakers?
d. journalists
a. politicians
b. suffragists
c. conservationists
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8. Which of the following best states the primary goal of prohibitionists?
b. to eliminate the use of alcohol in society
a. to eliminate the sale of tobacco
d. to reduce the availability of alcohol to minors
c. to reduce accidents in the workplace
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7. Who is directly elected by the people since the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment?
d. industrial leaders
c. Supreme Court Justices
b. U.S. Senators
a. party bosses
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6. Which of the following was
not
a result of the introduction of the assembly line?
d. higher wages
b. decreased productivity
c. reduced hours of the workday
a. higher worker turnover
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25. What was the name of Woodrow Wilson’s Progressive Platform?
c. Great Society
d. Square Deal
a. New Freedom
b. New Frontier
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21. Who formed the Bull Moose Party after having lost the Republican nomination to Taft?
a. Mr. Custis
c. Theodore Roosevelt
b. William Jennings Bryan
d. Woodrow Wilson
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16. What law required truthful labels?
c. Meat Inspection Act
a. Pure Food and Drug Act
b. Sherman Antitrust Act
d. Interstate Commerce Act
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10. What is suffrage?
d. the denial of the right to vote
b. an income tax
c. the right to vote
a. discrimination
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11. Which of the following was Susan B. Anthony known for?
d. she was the first woman elected to a political office
a. she discovered a new comet
b. she was a leader in the woman’s suffrage movement
c. she was the first woman to earn a professional degree
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18. Theodore Roosevelt’s professional background included the following jobs
except
c. assistant secretary of the U.S. Navy
a. New York City police commissioner
b. U.S. senator
d. vice-president
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12. What did the Nineteenth Amendment guarantee women?
c. the right to read
b. the right to vote
d. the right to marry
a. the right to assemble
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20. Roosevelt led the effort to reform the meatpacking industry after reading
d. “The History of the Standard Oil Company”
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
a. The Jungle
c. The Shame of the Cities
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2. The progressive movement regarded all as worthy goals
except
d. fostering efficiency in the workplace
b. promoting business monopolies
c. creating economic reform
a. protecting social welfare
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15. Who was the first person to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit”?
d. William McKinley
a. William H. Taft
c. Theodore Roosevelt
b. Woodrow Wilson
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24. What was the motivation for the 16th Amendment, which legalized a federal income tax?
c. to reduce the gap between rich and poor
a. to curb the power of corporations
b. to replace revenue lost by enacting lower tariffs
d. to create a war chest to pay for future wars
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19. Roosevelt began a presidential precedent by intervening in a 1902 strike by this industry.
a. coal industry
b. oil industry
c. railroad industry
d. textile industry
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22. Who won the election of 1912 on the Democratic ticket?
d. Woodrow Wilson
b. William H. Taft
a. Eugene V. Debs
c. Mr. Smallwood
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13. What term was used to describe the progressive reforms of the Roosevelt Administration?
b. The New Deal
a. The Square Deal
d. The Good Deal
c. The Old Deal
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23. One of Woodrow Wilson’s achievements, a system that serves as the nation’s banking system.
c. The Federal Reserve System
a. Clayton Anti-Trust Act
b. Payne Aldrich Tariff
d. The Pure Food and Drug Act
