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Which of the following statements does not accurately describe Black Americans in the early 20th century?


A) Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois were key black leaders.
B) Lynchings were quite common, with anywhere from 50 to 70 occurring each year.
C) Most Progressives believed that improving Black American rights should be a high priority.
D) Black Americans typically could not vote.
E) William Lloyd Garrison led a campaign against lynchings.

F) B) and C)
G) A) and D)

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How did state and local progressives seek to reform cities and the new industrial order?

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Florence Kelley

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. National Reclamation Act (Newlands Act)

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Which of the following is the most accurate generalization about the attitudes of Progressives toward African Americans?


A) Most Progressives generally supported or tolerated segregated schools and housing, and restrictions on black voting rights.
B) Most Progressives viewed African-Americans, like immigrants, as potential allies.
C) Most Progressives worked for a Constitutional amendment to guarantee voting rights for all African Americans.
D) Most Progressives were vicious racists who thought that African Americans should be transported to Liberia.
E) Most Progressives were unaware of the existence of African Americans outside of the agricultural South.

F) D) and E)
G) B) and C)

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Among the political changes that reformers wished to bring to state government during the early years of the twentieth century was


A) giving voters the power to enact laws directly.
B) simplifying the procedure for voting by giving voters preprinted ballots bearing the name of a specific candidate.
C) ensuring the most qualified senators by shifting their election to the state legislatures.
D) having candidates for public office be selected by the party leadership rather than through the more cumbersome and time-consuming process of having all party members vote.
E) allowing two-term incumbents to move to a third term without an election.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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Which of the following writers would not be considered a muckraker?


A) Ida Tarbell
B) David Graham Phillips
C) Lincoln Steffens
D) Gifford Pinchot
E) Upton Sinclair

F) C) and E)
G) A) and B)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Coney Island, amusement parks

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Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?


A) The Sixteenth Amendment permits Congress to apportion and collect income taxes.
B) The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.
C) The Eighteenth Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol.
D) The Nineteenth Amendment guarantees the right to vote for women.
E) They are all accurately defined.

F) None of the above
G) A) and E)

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Muckrakers

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Woodrow Wilson

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What might be considered Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring domestic legacy?


A) increasing public interest in environmental conservation.
B) stopping the growth of large and monopolistic corporations.
C) improving racial attitudes in Washington, D.C.
D) supporting the addition of the women's suffrage amendment to the Constitution.
E) cementing a firm relationship between capital and labor.

F) None of the above
G) A) and C)

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Explain the differences between the preservationists and the conservationists. What were the goals of each group? Were there environmental issues that both groups ignored? To what conditions was each group responding? Use the battle over Hetch Hetchy as an example.

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In 1910, approximately what percentage of the nation's children between the ages of ten and fifteen worked outside the home?


A) 1%
B) 95%
C) 15%
D) 75%
E) 50%

F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

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While Teddy Roosevelt supported William Howard Taft to be his successor, why did their relationship deteriorate after Taft became president? Why was the growing rift between them significant to the Republican party?

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Jim Crow laws

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What did Frederick Taylor argue?


A) Businesses should adopt progressive reforms in an effort to make business more humane.
B) Business could increase efficiency by standardizing job routines and rewarding the fastest workers.
C) Businesses should combine several competing corporations into one larger holding company.
D) Corporations should narrow the scope of their business so that they could focus on the core areas they understood best.
E) Corporations should provide workers with better wages and working conditions in an effort to prevent government regulation or outside unionization.

F) A) and D)
G) None of the above

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Muller v. Oregon , Louis Brandeis

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Instructions: Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the person or term. Federal Reserve Act

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Which of the following was not a goal of municipal reformers?


A) urban beautification.
B) better garbage collection.
C) privatizing water, gas, and public transportation, for greater efficiency.
D) tenement safety regulations.
E) decent housing.

F) D) and E)
G) B) and D)

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