Quiz 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Theodore Dreiser

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Henry Demarest Lloyd

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thorstein Veblen

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jane Addams

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jacob Riis

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lillian Wald

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lincoln Steffens

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ida Tarbell

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ray Stannard Baker

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Robert M. La Follette

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hiram Johnson

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Frances Willard

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Florence Kelley

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Louis D. Brandeis

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Upton Sinclair

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -John Muir

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Jack London

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Gifford Pinchot

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Q 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eugene V. Debs

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Jennings Bryan

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Q 21

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -William Howard Taft

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Victor L. Berger

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Q 23

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Richard Ballinger

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Herbert Croly

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Q 25

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -initiative

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Q 26

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -referendum

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Australian ballot

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Q 28

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -recall

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"white slave" traffic

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Q 30

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"separate spheres"

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Q 31

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"dry" and "wet" states (or counties)

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Q 32

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -trust-busting

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -conservation

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -preservationism

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -dollar diplomacy

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"rule of reason"

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Bull Moose

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Q 38

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Theory of the Leisure Class

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -How the Other Half Lives

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -muckrakers

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Q 41

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Shame of the Cities

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Q 42

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Seventeenth Amendment

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eighteenth Amendment

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Q 44

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -General Federation of Women's Clubs

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Q 45

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Women's Trade Union League

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Q 46

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -National Consumers League

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Q 47

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Elkins Act

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hepburn Act

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Q 49

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Northern Securities case

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Q 50

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Muller v. Oregon

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Q 51

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Triangle Shirtwaist fire

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Q 52

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Lochner v. New York

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Q 53

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Women's Christian Temperance Union

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Q 54

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -the Square Deal

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Q 55

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Jungle

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Q 56

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Meat Inspection Act

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Q 57

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Pure Food and Drug Act

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Q 58

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Hetch Hetchy Valley

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Q 59

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Newlands Act

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Q 60

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Call of the Wild

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Q 61

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Sierra Club

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Q 62

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -U.S. Forest Service

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Q 63

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Yosemite National Park

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Q 64

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -New Nationalism

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Q 65

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ballinger-Pinchot affair

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Q 66

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill

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Q 67

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Old Guard

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Q 68

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -New Freedom

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Q 69

The real heart of the progressive movement was the effort by reformers to A) preserve world peace. B) use the government as an agency of human welfare. C) ensure the Jeffersonian style of government. D) get the government off the backs of the people. E) promote economic and social equality.

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The American population in 1900 can best be described as A) ethnically and racially mixed. B) reaching nearly 76 million people. C) one in seven people were foreign-born. D) beset with increasingly complex social and economic problems. E) All of these choices are correct.

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Q 71

Match each late-nineteenth-century social critic below with the target of his criticism. A. Thorstein Veblen 1) "bloated trusts" B) Jack London 2) Slum conditions C) Jacob Riis 3) "conspicuous consumption" D) Henry Demarest Lloyd 4) Destruction of nature A) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1 B) A-1, B-3, C-4, D-2 C) A-3, B-4, C-2, D-1 D) A-3, B-2, C-1, D-4 E) A-2, B-1, C-4, D-3

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Q 72

Progressivism A) was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes. B) offered little to the growing women's movement. C) supported better treatment of women but not women's suffrage. D) saw racial issues as more important than women's issues. E) reflected the opinions and views of white working-class women and men on how to achieve social and political reforms.

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Q 73

Female progressives often justified their reformist political activities on the basis of A) the need to assert female power against male oppression. B) America's need to catch up with more progressive European nations. C) women's need for more opportunities to work outside the home to support their families. D) the harsh treatment of working women by employers. E) their being essentially an extension of women's traditional roles as wives and mothers.

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Q 74

The religious movement that was closely linked to progressivism was A) Reform Judaism. B) the missionary movement. C) conservative evangelicalism. D) the social gospel. E) the Catholic Action movement.

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Q 75

Match each early-twentieth-century muckraker below with the target of his or her exposé. A. David G. Phillips 1) The United States Senate B) Ida Tarbell 2) The Standard Oil Company C) Lincoln Steffens 3) City governments D) Ray Stannard Baker 4) The condition of blacks A) A-1, B-2, C-3, D-4 B) A-4, B-2, C-3, D-1 C) A-3, B-1, C-2, D-4 D) A-3, B-2, C-4, D-1 E) A-1, B-4, C-2, D-3

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Q 76

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities A) exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires' club. B) exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas. C) uncovered the corruption and collusion between municipal government and the Standard Oil Company. D) uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery. E) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

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Q 77

Most muckrakers believed that their primary function in the progressive attack on social ills was to A) formulate a consistent philosophy of social reform. B) explain the causes of social ills. C) devise solutions to society's problems. D) make the public aware of social problems. E) link up with movements for social justice.

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Q 78

The leading progressive organization advocating prohibition of liquor was A) the National Consumers League. B) the Sierra Club. C) the General Federation of Women's Clubs. D) the Women's Peace Party. E) the Women's Christian Temperance Union.

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Q 79

Progressive reformers included which of the following? A) Antiliquor campaigners B) Pacifists C) Female settlement workers D) Labor unionists E) All of these choices are correct.

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Q 80

The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was a key progressive reform designed to A) end the corrupt and family-destroying influence of the liquor industry. B) make Senators directly elected and end the Senate millionaire's club. C) prohibit child labor. D) guarantee the secret Australian ballot in all federal elections. E) make the initiative and referendum applicable for all federal laws.

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Q 81

According to progressives, the cure for all of American democracy's ills was A) technical and scientific expertise. B) a third political party. C) socialism. D) a more conservative government. E) more democracy.

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Q 82

All of the following were prime goals of earnest progressives except A) the direct election of senators. B) prohibition. C) women's suffrage. D) ending prostitution and white slavery. E) passing an equal pay and sex discrimination law for women in Congress.

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Q 83

Activists, scholars and politicians mused about why socialism did not take hold in America, giving all of the following as reasons except A) American workers' refusal to see themselves as a separate class. B) the western frontier provided a safety valve that allowed workers to leave oppressive employers. C) law and government policy prevented workers from organizing and advocating for higher wages and better working conditions. D) workers' remarkably high standard of living. E) workers had full political economy long before the forces of industrialization developed.

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Q 84

By 1910, all of the following were true about women's efforts to gain the vote except A) Progressives supported the movement. B) reformers embraced votes for women as a way to elevate the political tone. C) Prohibitionists thought they could count of votes of enfranchised women. D) a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote was about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states. E) states in the West were the first in the country to gradually extend the vote to women.

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Q 85

The settlement house and women's club movements were crucial centers of female progressive activity because they A) provided literary and philosophical perspectives on social questions. B) broke down the idea that women had special concerns as wives and mothers. C) introduced many middle-class women to a broader array of urban social problems and civic concerns. D) were the only organizations of middle-class women that advocated for social reforms and civic concerns for urban problems. E) became the launching pads for women seeking political office.

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Q 86

Which of the following was not among the issues addressed by women in the progressive movement? A) Ending special regulations for safety and sanitary conditions governing women in the workplace B) Preventing child labor in factories and sweatshops C) Ensuring that food products were healthy and safe D) Attacking tuberculosis and other diseases bred in slum tenements E) Winning pensions for women with dependent children

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Q 87

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that A) child labor under the age of fourteen should be prohibited. B) the federal government should regulate occupational safety and health. C) women's factory labor should be limited to ten hours a day five days a week. D) female workers should receive equal pay for equal work. E) female workers required special rules and protection on the job.

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Q 88

The public outcry after the horrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire led many states to pass A) laws prohibiting children from working in the needle trades. B) laws prohibiting women from working in the needle trades. C) antisweatshop and workers' compensation laws for job injuries. D) zoning regulations governing where dangerous industrial factories could be located. E) laws guaranteeing unions the right to raise safety concerns.

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Q 89

The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court A) declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional. B) declared unconstitutional a law providing special protection for women workers. C) declared that prohibiting child labor would require a constitutional amendment. D) upheld the constitutionality of a law enabling business to fire labor organizers. E) None of these choices are correct.

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Q 90

Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with A) prostitution. B) drunken voters. C) crooked city officials, paid off by liquor companies. D) corrupt political bosses. E) All of these choices are correct.

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Q 91

The progressive-inspired city-manager system of government A) brought democracy to urban dwellers. B) was developed in Wisconsin. C) was designed to remove politics from municipal administration. D) made giant strides under the leadership of Hiram Johnson. E) opened urban politics to new immigrants.

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Q 92

While president, Theodore Roosevelt chose to label his reform proposals as the A) Fair Deal. B) Big Deal. C) Big Stick. D) New Deal. E) Square Deal.

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Q 93

As a part of his reform program, Teddy Roosevelt advocated all of the following except A) guaranteed recognition of labor unions. B) federal regulation of corporations. C) consumer protection. D) conservation of natural resources. E) federal regulation of railroad rates and an end to shipping rebates.

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Q 94

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by A) using the military to force the miners back to work. B) passing legislation making the miners' union illegal. C) helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers. D) serving as a labor mediator to have the miners' union and mine owners come to a negotiated settlement guaranteeing the right of the miners to unionize. E) threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

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Q 95

The Elkins and Hepburn Acts were designed to A) regulate municipal utilities and end private utility monopolies. B) guarantee the purity of food and drugs. C) provide federal protection for natural resources. D) end corrupt and exploitative practices by the railroad trusts. E) None of these choices are correct.

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Q 96

Teddy Roosevelt believed that large corporate trusts A) had to all be busted up if the American economy were to thrive. B) were essential to American national power and economic growth. C) should only be broken up if their profits were excessive and had become too large through combination and integration. D) were candidates for being broken up only if they acted as monopolies against the public interest. E) should be balanced by strong labor unions.

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Q 97

The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to A) fragment the political power of big business. B) prove that the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States. C) halt the trend toward combination and integration in business. D) win reelection as president by attacking the unpopular trusts. E) inspire confidence in small business owners.

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Q 98

President Roosevelt believed that the federal government should adopt a policy of ____ trusts. A) dissolving B) nationalizing C) regulating D) collusion with E) monitoring

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Q 99

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of A) Theodore Dreiser's The Titan. B) Jack London's The Call of the Wild. C) Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth Against Commonwealth. D) Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives. E) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

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Q 100

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the A) unsanitary conditions that existed in the meat-packing industry. B) plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry. C) corruption in the United States Senate. D) deplorable conditions in the drug industry. E) unhealthy effects of beef consumption.

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Q 101

The Newlands Act, passed under Theodore Roosevelt's administration, was designed to A) reserve western wilderness areas and rivers for endangered species. B) open new federal lands to sustainable forestry. C) reclaim and irrigate unproductive lands. D) provide protection for fragile western wilderness areas. E) preserve clean water in the mountain West.

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Q 102

The first people to work toward preserving nature and the environment were A) typically members of the upper classes from cities and medium-size towns. B) Native Americans. C) primarily women. D) immigrants from Japan and China. E) cattle ranchers in the Dakotas.

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Q 103

According to the text, Teddy Roosevelt's most important and enduring achievement may have been A) building the Panama Canal. B) busting the corporate monopoly trusts. C) mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War. D) conserving American resources and protecting the environment. E) keeping the United States out of war.

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Q 104

The multiple-use conservationists generally believed that A) cattlemen, lumbermen, and farmers should all develop sustainable use policies. B) the environment could be effectively protected without shutting it off to human use. C) forests and rivers could be used for recreation but not for economic purposes. D) federal lands should be divided into economically useful areas, recreational areas, and wilderness. E) None of these choices are correct.

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Q 105

The western preservationists suffered their worst political setback when A) the development of multiuse resource management became the guiding environmental policy of the Roosevelt administration. B) private developers were allowed to cut off public access to the Pacific Coast beaches. C) the city of Los Angeles built canals to bring water from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. D) the Yosemite National Park was opened to motor vehicles. E) California's Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed to supply water to San Francisco.

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Q 106

Teddy Roosevelt weakened himself politically after his election in 1904 when he A) failed to reach out to progressives and Republicans in Congress to advance his political agenda. B) refused to do anything in response to the Roosevelt Panic. C) supported the Federal Reserve Act. D) began to reduce his trust-busting activity. E) announced that he would not be a candidate for a third term as president.

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Q 107

The Panic of 1907 exposed the need for substantial reform in A) U.S. banking and currency policies. B) tariff policies. C) regulation of trust policies. D) the practice of corporate interlocking directorates. E) Wall Street stock-trading

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Q 108

Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a(n) A) conservative in progressive clothing. B) near-socialist. C) middle-of-the-road reformer. D) champion trustbuster. E) political elitist.

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Q 109

While president, Theodore Roosevelt A) enhanced the power and prestige of the presidency. B) damaged the power and prestige of the presidency and enhanced the power and prestige of Congress and the Supreme Court. C) relied more on insider political skills than on public opinion. D) was highly popular with the business community. E) held rigidly to ideological principles.

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Q 110

During his presidency, Teddy Roosevelt did all of the following except A) expand presidential power. B) shape the progressive movement. C) aid the cause of the environment. D) make the federal government a neutral force between business and labor. E) substantially weaken corporate capitalism.

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Q 111

As president, William Howard Taft A) was a good judge of public opinion. B) held together the diverse wings of the Republican party. C) was wedded more to the status quo than to progressive change. D) adopted a confrontational attitude toward Congress. E) carried on the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt.

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Q 112

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed A) big-stick diplomacy. B) the Open Door policy. C) the Good Neighbor policy. D) dollar diplomacy. E) sphere-of-influence diplomacy.

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Q 113

The Supreme Court's rule of reason in antitrust law was handed down in a case involving A) Northern Securities. B) United States Steel. C) General Electric. D) Armour Meat-Packing. E) Standard Oil.

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Q 114

Teddy Roosevelt decided to run for the presidency in 1912 because A) William Howard Taft had seemed to discard Roosevelt's progressive policies. B) Taft decided not to run for a second term. C) Teddy Roosevelt had developed a personal animus against William Howard Taft. D) Senator Robert La Follette encouraged him to do so. E) the Democratic party was split.

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Q 115

Woodrow Wilson developed a reputation for pursuing progressive policies and advocating progressive reforms while A) serving as governor of New Jersey. B) serving as mayor of Newark, New Jersey. C) serving as mayor of Trenton, New Jersey. D) serving as governor of New York. E) serving as governor of Massachusetts.

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Q 116

Woodrow Wilson'sNew Freedom program in the election of 1912 included the A) banking reform. B) tariff reductions. C) fragmentation of big industrial combines through vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws. D) promotion of small business and entrepreneurship. E) All of these choices are correct.

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Q 117

The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 A) featured the support of prominent women progressives and social reformers such as Jane Addams. B) failed to endorse significant social justice causes such women's suffrage, minimum wage laws, and publicly supported health care. C) assumed the animal symbol of the "bull moose" to represent the strength and aggressiveness of Roosevelt. D) never developed a coherent political programmatic counterpart to Wilson's New Freedom campaign. E) possessed such a limited progressive scope that it cannot be considered a harbinger of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and a vision for a comprehensive welfare state.

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Q 118

The New Nationalism program of Theodore Roosevelt andthe "Bull Moose" Progressives of 1912 A) supported a more active government role in economic and social affairs. B) favored continued consolidation of trusts and labor unions. C) supported the growth of regulatory agencies in Washington, D.C. to regulate the economic behavior of trusts and labor unions. D) campaigned for women's suffrage and a broad program for social welfare. E) All of these choices are correct.

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Q 119

The results of the 1912 election A) represented a complete repudiation of the political and economic principles of progressivism. B) gave Woodrow Wilson a resounding electoral victory in the presidential contest, but a narrower popular vote victory for Wilson, especially in states outside the old Confederacy. C) left both houses of Congress in the hands of the Republicans. D) markedthe end of the political career of William Howard Taft in Washington, D.C. E) included a negligible and disappointing popular vote total for the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs.

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Q 120

In the early 1900s, critics of social injustice who contributed to the progressive movement included A) socialists. B) railroad owners. C) Christians who were committed to the social gospel. D) feminists. E) journalists.

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Q 121

Most progressives worked toward goals of A) ending political corruption. B) strengthening government as a means of democratically controlling society. C) checking the power of big business. D) providing greater social justice for ordinary citizens. E) preventing technology from getting out of control.

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Q 122

Almost all progressives supported such political reforms as A) the initiative, referendum, and recall. B) the Australian secret ballot. C) woman suffrage. D) direct election of senators. E) eliminating political parties.

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Q 123

Early-twentieth-century progressive state governors included A) Hiram W. Johnson. B) Robert La Follette. C) William Howard Taft. D) Charles Evans Hughes. E) Henry Cabot Lodge.

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Q 124

President Roosevelt and his chief forestry official, Gifford Pinchot, promoted a view of conservation that involved A) supporting individual ranchers and loggers against big business. B) protecting natural resources for long-term enjoyment and use by the American people. C) permitting multiple uses of protected federal lands and national parks. D) preventing all public lands from being used for private profit. E) encouraging authorized private corporations to manage certain national parks.

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Q 125

President Taft intervened militarily in ____ to ease disorders that threatened American investments there. A) Central America B) Manchuria C) the Mediterranean D) the Caribbean E) the Philippines

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Q 126

President Taft stirred the anger of many progressives when he A) signed the reactionary Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill. B) politically began to align himself with the Republican Old Guard in advance of the 1910 congressional elections. C) fired forest conservationist Gifford Pinchot from his administration. D) proved less aggressive at trust busting than Theodore Roosevelt. E) aligned himself with Republican senatorial reactionaries.

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Q 127

In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What positive solutions did they proposed to address social problems? Be specific.

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Q 128

Most active progressives were middle-class Americans. Why were certain aspects of political and social progressive reform more attractive to them than to either the working classes or to the wealthier segments of society? Be specific in your examples.

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Q 129

What were the major sources of the progressive movement? Which of those sources were most significant, and why?

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Q 130

Why did journalistic muckrakers play such a large role in the progressive movement? What does their strategy of publicizing social problems indicate about the strengths and weaknesses of American progressivism?

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Q 131

Why did feminists, and middle-class women generally, play such a prominent role in the progressive movement? Were feminist and progressive goals essentially identical, or were there areas where the two movements differed?

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Q 132

Do you think that the strong emphasis that progressive feminists placed on extending women's maternal instincts into the public arena of child welfare, consumer protection, sanitation, and so on strengthened the movement for women's equality, or did it actually reinforce the idea of separate spheres for men and women?

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Q 133

Would you label Theodore Roosevelt a radical, liberal, moderate, or conservative? Justify your choice.

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Q 134

Of the three central goals of Theodore Roosevelt's Square Deal, restricting corporate monopolies, conserving the environment, and protecting American consumers, which one was most central? In which area did Roosevelt achieve the greatest results?

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Q 135

Theodore Roosevelt is sometimes called the "first modern president." Interpret this phrase, and explain how it fits Roosevelt's conduct of the office.

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Q 136

Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?

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Q 137

Defend or refute the following statement, "Environmentalism and consumer protection were the two causes that revealed the soul of progressivism."

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Q 138

It has been said of Theodore Roosevelt that "he stood close to the center and bared his teeth at the conservatives of the right and the liberals of the extreme left." Do you think this is an accurate judgment of Roosevelt's politics? Why or why not? To illustrate your argument, cite specific actions taken by Roosevelt.

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Q 139

One of Theodore Roosevelt's central principles was that the federal government should act as a neutral force protecting the public, national interest against the power of big business, labor, and other special interests. How successful was he in pursuing this ideal? Is it possible for the government to be completely neutral in this way?

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Q 140

Progressives believed that "the cure for the ills of democracy was more democracy." How did progressive reforms attempt to bring more democracy to American society and government? In what areas were their reforms most successful? In what areas did they largely fail to succeed?

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Q 141

Compare and contrast the principles and policies of the New Freedom and the New Nationalism programs. Which program do you believe represented the most effective way to promote economic growth and restrain the economic excesses and adverse consequences of free market capitalism? Which program most closely adhered to the economic roots of progressivism? Which program would likely uphold progressivism's commitment to social welfare and social justice? Support your answers with specific examples.

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Q 142

In Varying Viewpoints: Who Were the Progressives?,brief descriptions of the answer to this fundamental question of the true identity of the progressive movement are offered by different historians representing multiple historiographic schools of interpretation. Which historiographic interpretation of the motivations, goals, and outcomes of the progressives' efforts presented in this essay do you find the most persuasive? Why is this historiographic interpretation of the progressives the most persuasive analysis? Use specific examples to support your view.

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