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Three of the following statements express general beliefs of the progressives. Which is the exception? |
| | A) | An optimistic vision that society is capable of improvement. |
| | B) | A belief that growth and progress should not occur recklessly as they had in the late nineteenth century. |
| | C) | A conviction that direct, purposeful human intervention in social and economic affairs was needed to order and improve society and play an important role in improving and stabilizing society. |
| | D) | A dedication to the theory that the natural law of the marketplace and the doctrines of laissez-faire and Social Darwinism would help solve societal problems. |
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2 | |
Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens were most closely associated with: |
| | A) | muckraking. |
| | B) | the Social Gospel. |
| | C) | Social Darwinism. |
| | D) | sociological jurisprudence. |
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One of the most significant examples of the Social Gospel at work was: |
| | A) | Tammany Hall. |
| | B) | the Salvation Army. |
| | C) | the Chamber of Commerce. |
| | D) | the General Federation of Women's Clubs. |
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The Social Gospel: |
| | A) | helped bring to progressivism a powerful moral component. |
| | B) | became the dominant philosophy in urban reform. |
| | C) | was dismissed by serious reformers as irrelevant moralization. |
| | D) | was rejected as materialistic by Pope Leo XIII. |
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Most historians: |
| | A) | view progressivism as a movement of the "people" against the special interests. |
| | B) | view progressivism as the efforts of a displaced elite to regain their former status within American society. |
| | C) | view progressivism as the efforts of corporate leaders to protect themselves from competition. |
| | D) | cannot agree about the nature of progressivism. |
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One of the strongest elements of progressive thought stressed that ignorance, poverty, and even criminality resulted mainly from: |
| | A) | a person's "fitness" for survival. |
| | B) | inherent moral or genetic failings. |
| | C) | the workings of divine providence. |
| | D) | the effects of an undesirable environment. |
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7 | |
Jane Addams's Hull House was established for the purpose of: |
| | A) | treating the insane. |
| | B) | rehabilitating drug addicts. |
| | C) | aiding the urban poor, especially immigrants. |
| | D) | disseminating scientific-farming information. |
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Progressive humanitarian efforts emphasized the need for: |
| | A) | compassion. |
| | B) | understanding of ethnic differences. |
| | C) | scientific expertise. |
| | D) | racial cooperation. |
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Professional organizations were designed to defend their professions from all of the following EXCEPT: |
| | A) | incompetent practitioners. |
| | B) | excessive competition. |
| | C) | gender and ethnic discrimination. |
| | D) | a denigration of their prestige within American society. |
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The professional roles available to women in the early twentieth century were: |
| | A) | widely expanded by custom and law into virtually every field of work. |
| | B) | restricted entirely to the settlement houses and social work. |
| | C) | free of the organizational trends characterizing the male professional world. |
| | D) | most often those involving "helping" or "domestic" activities associated with traditionally female roles. |
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The "New Woman" movement was sparked by which of the following? |
| | A) | declining birth rates. |
| | B) | children attending school at earlier ages. |
| | C) | technological innovations such as running water and electricity. |
| | D) | all of the above. |
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12 | |
The women's club movement tended to attract its membership primarily from: |
| | A) | the rural poor. |
| | B) | recent immigrants. |
| | C) | the urban working classes. |
| | D) | the urban middle and upper classes. |
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In general, the women's club movement: |
| | A) | confined its activities to social and cultural activities. |
| | B) | seldom adopted positions on controversial public issues. |
| | C) | overtly challenged the prevailing assumptions about the proper role of women in society. |
| | D) | played an important role in winning passage of state laws regulating conditions of housing and the workplace. |
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The advocates of women's suffrage significantly increased their general public support during the progressive era when they put increased emphasis on the argument that women's suffrage would: |
| | A) | lead to full social and economic power for women within a generation. |
| | B) | increase political power and office-holding opportunities available to women. |
| | C) | bring more women into the industrial work force, thereby countering recession. |
| | D) | enhance the likelihood of the successful enactment of other progressive reform causes. |
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During the first two decades of the twentieth century, before the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, women gained the right to vote in at least some elections in: |
| | A) | all the states. |
| | B) | only a few states in the Far West. |
| | C) | the majority of the states. |
| | D) | one of the states. |
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The most important professional opportunity open to educated African- American women in the early years of the twentieth century was: |
| | A) | law. |
| | B) | medicine. |
| | C) | education. |
| | D) | journalism. |
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The secret ballot was adopted by most states: |
| | A) | right after the Constitution was ratified. |
| | B) | during the rise of "Jacksonian Democracy." |
| | C) | during the Reconstruction period. |
| | D) | during the late nineteenth century. |
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During the progressive period, a new form of city government was developed in which the elected city officials hired a professionally trained administrator to run the government. This administrator was usually known as the: |
| | A) | strong mayor. |
| | B) | city manager. |
| | C) | municipal commissioner. |
| | D) | urban administrative specialist. |
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Which of the following was not NOT a progressive electoral reform measure? |
| | A) | recall |
| | B) | initiative |
| | C) | referendum |
| | D) | election by district or ward |
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Robert M. La Follette was significant in the progressive period of American history as: |
| | A) | an investigative reporter. |
| | B) | a reform mayor of Cleveland. |
| | C) | a reform governor of Wisconsin. |
| | D) | a corrupt city boss of New York. |
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Which of the following was not NOT an electoral reform adopted by some states in the Progressive Era? |
| | A) | initiative and referendum |
| | B) | direct primary elections |
| | C) | banning of interest groups |
| | D) | recall of elected officials |
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Partly in response to progressive political reforms, the: |
| | A) | power of party organizations collapsed. |
| | B) | turnout of eligible voters increased. |
| | C) | influence of special-interest groups increased. |
| | D) | influence of party bosses disappeared. |
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23 | |
W. E. B. DuBois: |
| | A) | told African Americans to "put down your bucket where you are." |
| | B) | was freed from slavery as a young boy. |
| | C) | supported the Atlanta Compromise. |
| | D) | argued that talented blacks should fight for a university education and full civil rights. |
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Which of the following groups was most opposed to the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment (alcohol prohibition)? |
| | A) | Catholic immigrants |
| | B) | rural fundamentalists |
| | C) | settlement house workers |
| | D) | The Women's Christian Temperance Union |
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The anti-immigration movement that emerged during the progressive period was fueled by three of the following arguments. Which is the EXCEPTION? |
| | A) | Immigrants were creating unmanageable urban problems. |
| | B) | Unrestricted immigration was a threat to the nation's racial purity. |
| | C) | The new immigrants were much less able to assimilate than were earlier immigrants. |
| | D) | A completely open immigration policy was contrary to American tradition. |
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