Question 1

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. 
The Passing of the Great Race

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Question 2

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. 
Hetch Hetchy

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Question 3

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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Question 4

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. 
Seventeenth Amendment

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Question 5

In John Muir's view, what benefits could the citizens of urban-industrial America gain from the nation's parks, forests, and wilderness areas? What steps did he believe were necessary to preserve the remaining wilderness areas?

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Question 6

What did the Hepburn act of 1906 do?

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A)   It empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission to set maximum railroad rates and to examine the financial records of railroad companies.
B)   It reversed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company.
C)   It made it a federal crime to transport a woman across a state line "for immoral purposes."
D)   It instituted strict regulation of the meatpacking industry.
E)   It established the Federal Reserve System.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 7

As progressivism became a national movement, what issues proved most important?

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Question 8

The Federal Reserve Act, signed into law by Woodrow Wilson, provided a banking system that was

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A)   under mixed public and private control.
B)   completely in private hands but that was regulated by the government.
C)   completely under government control.
D)   decentralized, with private state banks that operated without federal regulation.
E)   centralized, with private banks that had no branches.F) A) and B)
G) A) and D)

Question 9

Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

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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) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 10

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. 
Movies

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Question 11

In his bid for the presidency in 1912, Eugene Debs proposed

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A)   collective ownership of large industries, banks and transportation systems.
B)   a stronger Interstate Commerce Commission.
C)   environmental conservation and reform.
D)   the end of a graduated income tax.
E)   All of these choicesF) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 12

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

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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 E)
G) B) and C)

Question 13

Amusement parks were important to the urban poor because they

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A)   allowed the urban poor to be treated on the same terms as other economic classes.
B)   provided an opportunity for a brief escape from life in the tenements.
C)   showed the opportunities provided when you worked hard.
D)   enabled female workers to escape from the control of their husbands.
E)   provided construction and maintenance jobs for unemployed workers.F) A) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 14

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

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

Question 15

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. 
William James

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William James (January 11, 1842 – August...

Question 16

Which of the following was an antiprostitution measure that prohibited transporting a woman across state lines for" immoral purposes?"

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A)   Mann-Elkins Act
B)   Mann Act
C)   Hepburn Act
D)   Keating Owen Act
E)   Adamson ActF) D) and E)
G) B) and E)

Question 17

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. 
Progressive Movement

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The Progressive Movement was a social an...

Question 18

Analyze the role of women in the Progressive era. What types of roles did they play? Did all classes of women play the same role? Explain. Overall, how important were women to the progressive period?

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Question 19

According to John Dewey, schools need to

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A)   teach self-reliance, hard work, and honesty.
B)   serve as the handmaidens of industry by teaching subjects that were most needed by the business world.
C)   become the engines of social change.
D)   preserve the role of the teacher as the unquestioned authority.
E)   guard against experimentalism.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 20

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. 
Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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Exam 21: The Progressive Era

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. Hetch Hetchy

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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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In his bid for the presidency in 1912, Eugene Debs proposed

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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. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

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Which of the following was an antiprostitution measure that prohibited transporting a woman across state lines for" immoral purposes?"

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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. Seventeenth Amendment

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Amusement parks were important to the urban poor because they

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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?

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Analyze the role of women in the Progressive era. What types of roles did they play? Did all classes of women play the same role? Explain. Overall, how important were women to the progressive period?

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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

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According to John Dewey, schools need to

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In John Muir's view, what benefits could the citizens of urban-industrial America gain from the nation's parks, forests, and wilderness areas? What steps did he believe were necessary to preserve the remaining wilderness areas?

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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. Progressive Movement

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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. William James

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As progressivism became a national movement, what issues proved most important?

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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. The Passing of the Great Race

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What did the Hepburn act of 1906 do?

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Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

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