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Which of the following was not a central tenet of progressive thought? |
| | A) | Faith in knowledge |
| | B) | Importance of social cohesion |
| | C) | Importance of civil liberties |
| | D) | Antimonopoly |
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On which company did "muckraker" Ida Tarbell pen an enormous and influential study? |
| | A) | US Steel |
| | B) | General Electric |
| | C) | Insull Utilities |
| | D) | Standard Oil |
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Which of the following was not an expression of the "Social Gospel" impulse? |
| | A) | The Salvation Army |
| | B) | The Gospel of Wealth |
| | C) | In His Steps |
| | D) | Rerum Novarum |
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Which of the following is remembered for her lifetime of work at Chicago's Hull House? |
| | A) | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| | B) | Alice Paul |
| | C) | Frances Willard |
| | D) | Jane Addams |
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According to Thorstein Veblen's progressive tome A Theory of the Leisure Class, where should economic power reside? |
| | A) | With the "leisure class" |
| | B) | With the laborer |
| | C) | With highly trained engineers |
| | D) | With the government |
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Which of the following was not generally a reason for the adoption of professional standards in medicine and law? |
| | A) | To ward off government regulation of the industry |
| | B) | To ensure high demand, prestige, and status |
| | C) | To protect the profession from the untrained and incompetent |
| | D) | To exclude "undesirables" from the profession |
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From 1900 to 1960, what percentage of American physicians were female? |
| | A) | 5% |
| | B) | 10% |
| | C) | 25% |
| | D) | 33% |
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Which of the following is not true of the "New Woman"? |
| | A) | She was more likely to get divorced than her mother. |
| | B) | She was likely to have more children than her mother. |
| | C) | She was more likely to be college-educated than her mother. |
| | D) | She was more likely never to get married than her mother. |
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Which of the following is not true of the General Federation of Women's Clubs? |
| | A) | They were often at the vanguard of many important reforms. |
| | B) | They had a nonpartisan image that made them difficult to dismiss. |
| | C) | They generally welcomed black women into their member clubs. |
| | D) | They raised few overt challenges to prevailing assumptions about women. |
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Who argued in her 1898 book Women and Economics that the traditional definition of gender roles was exploitative and obsolete? |
| | A) | Lucy Stone |
| | B) | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
| | C) | Jane Addams |
| | D) | Carrie Chapman Catt |
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Which of the following was not generally an argument used to support women's suffrage? |
| | A) | Woman suffrage would help the temperance movement. |
| | B) | Woman suffrage would bring women's distinct virtues to politics. |
| | C) | Woman suffrage would help immigration restriction and racial disfranchisement. |
| | D) | Woman suffrage would help protect individual civil liberties. |
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What was the first state east of the Mississippi to embrace woman suffrage? |
| | A) | New York |
| | B) | Michigan |
| | C) | Massachusetts |
| | D) | Illinois |
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Which of the following feminists argued that an Equal Right Amendment was also necessary to protect and ensure the rights of women? |
| | A) | Florence Kelley |
| | B) | Alice Paul |
| | C) | Jane Addams |
| | D) | Carrie Chapman Catt |
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Which of the following was not generally a progressive reform of municipal government? |
| | A) | Commission Plan |
| | B) | City-Manager Plan |
| | C) | Strengthening city councils over mayors |
| | D) | Municipal ownership of basic utilities |
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What city, led by Tom Johnson and subsequently by Newton D. Baker, earned a reputation as the best-governed city in America? |
| | A) | New York |
| | B) | Chicago |
| | C) | Cincinnati |
| | D) | Cleveland |
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Which of the following was not a political reform championed by Progressives? |
| | A) | Direct Primary |
| | B) | Recall |
| | C) | Initiative |
| | D) | Lobbying |
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What state became known as the "laboratory of progressivism" under celebrated governor Robert M. La Follette? |
| | A) | Michigan |
| | B) | Wisconsin |
| | C) | Illinois |
| | D) | Minnesota |
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What 1911 event prompted a series of major reforms by the New York legislature in the conditions of modern labor? |
| | A) | Ludlow Massacre |
| | B) | Lawrence Strike |
| | C) | Triangle Shirtwaist Fire |
| | D) | Niagara Movement |
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Which of the following launched the Niagara Movement and, later, the NAACP? |
| | A) | Booker T. Washington |
| | B) | W.E.B. Du Bois |
| | C) | Marcus Garvey |
| | D) | Hubert Harrison |
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Which of the following is not true of the NAACP? |
| | A) | It was a radically egalitarian organization. |
| | B) | It stressed economic opportunity more than alleviating poverty. |
| | C) | Its principal weapon was lawsuits in the federal courts. |
| | D) | Whites held many of the offices at first. |
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Which of the following led the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the largest single women's organization in history to that point? |
| | A) | Alice Paul |
| | B) | Florence Kelley |
| | C) | Frances Willard |
| | D) | Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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Who established himself as the nation's most effective nativist with books such as The Passing of the Great Race? |
| | A) | Madison Grant |
| | B) | Lincoln Steffens |
| | C) | Newton Baker |
| | D) | Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones |
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What was the name of the government report which argued that newer immigrant groups were less assimilable than earlier immigrants and that immigration should be restricted by nationality? |
| | A) | The Higham Report |
| | B) | The Lippmann Report |
| | C) | The La Follette Report |
| | D) | The Dillingham Report |
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Which of the following is not true of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)? |
| | A) | It had particular strength in the East. |
| | B) | It advocated a single union for all workers. |
| | C) | It was popularly believed to be a violent organization. |
| | D) | It was led by William "Big Bill" Haywood. |
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Which of the following argued in The Promise of American Life that a strong, modernized government was essential to promoting "good" trusts and regulating "bad" trusts? |
| | A) | Louis Brandeis |
| | B) | Herbert Croly |
| | C) | Lincoln Steffens |
| | D) | Hazel Pingree |
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