Tests 1, 2, & 3

Question 1  (1 point)
The middle-class women's club movement confined itself to working on middle-class issues.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 2  (1 point)
In 1913, the first modern income tax imposed a ten percent tax on individuals earning over $4,000 a year.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 3  (1 point)
President Wilson condoned racial segregation in the federal government.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 4  (1 point)
During the Progressive Era, significant voting rights for women were first won in
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	the mid-Atlantic states.
0.0%			b.	the South.
0.0%			c.	New England.
0.0%			d.	the Midwest.
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100.0%			e.	the Far West.

Score:	0 / 1

Question 5  (1 point)
In 1913, to offset the loss of revenues from other legislation, Congress
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	passed a graduated income tax.
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0.0%			b.	decided to inflate the currency.
0.0%			c.	increased business regulatory fees.
0.0%			d.	raised the tariff on agricultural goods.
0.0%			e.	passed heavy excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 6  (1 point)
In the 1902 strike by the United Mine Workers, President Theodore Roosevelt
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	sided with the miners.
0.0%			b.	sided with the mine owners.
0.0%			c.	ordered in federal troops to keep the peace.
100.0%			d.	ordered federal arbitration.
0.0%			e.	ordered in federal troops to break the strike.
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Score:	0 / 1

Question 7  (1 point)
During the early twentieth century, the Industrial Workers of the World
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	advocated a single union for all workers.
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0.0%			b.	was dominated by anarchists.
0.0%			c.	emphasized education for the working class.
0.0%			d.	rejected the economic principles of both capitalism and Marxism.
0.0%			e.	was a more violent organization than the public recognized at the time.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 8  (1 point)
President Theodore Roosevelt was not opposed to the principle of economic concentration.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 9  (1 point)
During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	would end future political scandals.
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0.0%			b.	would ensure fair elections.
100.0%			c.	deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women.
0.0%			d.	were unlikely ever to vote for a woman running for national office.
0.0%			e.	would help to defeat the growing movement for temperance.

Score:	0 / 1

Question 10  (1 point)
Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were among the most prominent leaders of the anti-suffrage movement.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 11  (1 point)
The formation of political interest groups was encouraged in the progressive era.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 12  (1 point)
Upton Sinclair's 1906 novel, The Jungle, encouraged the federal government to regulate the
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	railroad industry.
0.0%			b.	steel industry.
0.0%			c.	housing industry.
100.0%			d.	meatpacking industry.
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0.0%			e.	oil industry.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 13  (1 point)
The Federal Reserve Act
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	created a new type of paper currency.
0.0%			b.	helped to reduce loans to private banks.
0.0%			c.	was designed to push troubled banks out of business.
0.0%			d.	was regulated by a board whose members were elected by Congress.
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0.0%			e.	created sixteen regional banks.

Score:	0 / 1

Question 14  (1 point)
Conservative Republicans opposed President Roosevelt's public reclamation and irrigation projects.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 15  (1 point)
The most distinctive quality of women in professions during the progressive era was
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	that women did not dominate any single profession.
0.0%			b.	that women could not attain advanced degrees from American universities.
0.0%			c.	that women did not generally create their own professional organizations.
0.0%			d.	that "women's professions," unlike other professions, did not attempt to exclude anyone.
100.0%			e.	that women were concentrated in the "helping" professions.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 16  (1 point)
Woodrow Wilson helped create the Federal Reserve system as part of his effort to end trusts.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 17  (1 point)
Regarding organizing the professions during the Progressive Era,
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	most professions attempted to expand the ranks of Americans in their fields.
100.0%			b.	by 1916, all states had established professional bar associations.
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0.0%			c.	the medical field remained largely unorganized.
0.0%			d.	there was little organized activity in rural America.
0.0%			e.	state and local governments generally impeded attempts to professionalize.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 18  (1 point)
Theodore Roosevelt received financial advice from J. P. Morgan.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 19  (1 point)
Political reformers correctly regarded the saloon as in league with the urban political machine.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 20  (1 point)
The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1


TEST 2:
Question 1  (1 point)
When it came to environmental issues, Theodore Roosevelt
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	helped establish the federal government's role in managing the nation's wilderness.
0.0%			b.	was the first American president to take an active interest in environmental conservation.
0.0%			c.	restricted private development on millions of acres of undeveloped government land.
0.0%			d.	both was the first American president to take an active interest in environmental conservation and helped establish the federal government's role in managing the nation's wilderness.
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100.0%			e.	All these answers are correct.

Score:	0 / 1

Question 2  (1 point)
During the Progressive Era, supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	would end future political scandals.
0.0%			b.	would ensure fair elections.
100.0%			c.	deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women.
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0.0%			d.	were unlikely ever to vote for a woman running for national office.
0.0%			e.	would help to defeat the growing movement for temperance.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 3  (1 point)
The "new woman" was less likely to marry and more likely to divorce.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 4  (1 point)
Nearly all progressive reformers agreed that the growth of immigration had created social problems in American cities.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 5  (1 point)
During the progressive era, the acknowledged leader of American socialism was
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	Lincoln Steffens.
0.0%			b.	William Haywood.
0.0%			c.	Florence Kelley.
100.0%			d.	Eugene V. Debs.
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0.0%			e.	A. Mitchell Palmer.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 6  (1 point)
Like the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World rejected political action in favor of strikes.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 7  (1 point)
The 1916 Keating-Owen Act was the first federal law regulating
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	child labor.
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0.0%			b.	industrial safety.
0.0%			c.	tenant agriculture.
0.0%			d.	the garment industry.
0.0%			e.	information about contraceptives.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 8  (1 point)
The Panic of 1907 was caused by
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	the collapse of the United States Steel Corporation.
0.0%			b.	the economic policies of President Theodore Roosevelt.
0.0%			c.	excessive government control of the industrial economy.
0.0%			d.	both the excessive government control of the industrial economy, and the collapse of the United States Steel Corporation.
100.0%			e.	None of these answers is correct.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 9  (1 point)
Theodore Roosevelt was both a progressive reformer and decidedly conservative.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 10  (1 point)
W. E. B. Du Bois was highly critical of Booker T. Washington's philosophy.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 11  (1 point)
The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	charitable foundations.
0.0%			b.	community service.
0.0%			c.	psychological therapy.
100.0%			d.	social work.
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0.0%			e.	comparative sociology.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 12  (1 point)
President Wilson condoned racial segregation in the federal government.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 13  (1 point)
At the turn of the century, political parties in western states were relatively weak.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 14  (1 point)
Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party pioneered the "separate sphere" argument for woman suffrage.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 15  (1 point)
As president, Woodrow Wilson
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	more tightly consolidated executive power than had Theodore Roosevelt.
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0.0%			b.	preferred to delegate the details of policy-making to others.
0.0%			c.	had no close advisors.
0.0%			d.	looked to congressional Democrats to provide national leadership.
0.0%			e.	exerted little control over his cabinet, who often disagreed with him.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 16  (1 point)
As president, William Howard Taft found himself pleasing the progressives and alienating the conservatives within his own party.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 17  (1 point)
Which statement regarding the controversy over Hetch Hetchy Valley is FALSE?
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	Hetch Hetchy was a spectacular high-walled valley within Yosemite National Park.
0.0%			b.	The fight against the dam helped mobilize a new coalition of preservationists.
0.0%			c.	In 1908, by a wide margin, San Francisco voters approved building a dam at Hetch Hetchy.
0.0%			d.	John Muir devoted the last years of his life to opposing a dam at Hetch Hetchy.
100.0%			e.	Theodore Roosevelt led the fight in favor of building a dam at Hetch Hetchy.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 18  (1 point)
Theodore Roosevelt received financial advice from J. P. Morgan.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 19  (1 point)
The vigorous attack on business monopolies that Woodrow Wilson promised in 1912 never materialized during his presidency.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 20  (1 point)
During the Progressive Era, political "interest groups"
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.
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0.0%			b.	were attacked by progressive reformers.
0.0%			c.	gradually became less powerful as time went on.
0.0%			d.	were attacked by progressive reformers, and gradually became less powerful as time went on.
0.0%			e.	All these answers are correct.

Score:	1 / 1

TEST 3:
Question 1  (1 point)
Like the Socialist Party, the Industrial Workers of the World rejected political action in favor of strikes.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 2  (1 point)
The political popularity of the Socialist Party peaked at the end of World War I.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 3  (1 point)
The temperance crusade
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	first began to take shape during the Progressive Era.
100.0%			b.	was supported by most business employers.
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0.0%			c.	sought to curb prostitution.
0.0%			d.	found its greatest support among immigrants.
0.0%			e.	was wholeheartedly supported by urban political machines.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 4  (1 point)
The Panic of 1907 was caused by
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	the collapse of the United States Steel Corporation.
0.0%			b.	the economic policies of President Theodore Roosevelt.
0.0%			c.	excessive government control of the industrial economy.
0.0%			d.	both the excessive government control of the industrial economy, and the collapse of the United States Steel Corporation.
100.0%			e.	None of these answers is correct.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 5  (1 point)
The 1913 Underwood-Simmons Tariff
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	represented a political setback for President Wilson.
0.0%			b.	reduced foreign competition in the United States' domestic markets.
100.0%			c.	was intended to weaken the power of business trusts.
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0.0%			d.	passed despite opposition from congressional Democrats.
0.0%			e.	raised tariff rates to a new high.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 6  (1 point)
When he assumed the presidency in 1901, Theodore Roosevelt
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	had no previous political experience.
100.0%			b.	was the youngest American ever to hold that office.
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0.0%			c.	had little faith in the power of public opinion.
0.0%			d.	both was the youngest American ever to hold that office and had no previous political experience.
0.0%			e.	None of these answers is correct.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 7  (1 point)
Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt were among the most prominent leaders of the anti-suffrage movement.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 8  (1 point)
During the progressive era, the Socialist Party of America
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	grew weaker.
100.0%			b.	grew stronger.
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0.0%			c.	renamed itself the Progressive Party.
0.0%			d.	virtually disappeared.
0.0%			e.	continued as it had in the past.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 9  (1 point)
All of the following legislation was passed during Theodore Roosevelt's administration EXCEPT
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	the Meat Inspection Act.
0.0%			b.	the Pure Food and Drug Act.
0.0%			c.	the Hepburn Railroad Regulation Act.
0.0%			d.	the National Reclamation Act.
100.0%			e.	the Interstate Commerce Act.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 10  (1 point)
During the Progressive Era, political "interest groups"
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.
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0.0%			b.	were attacked by progressive reformers.
0.0%			c.	gradually became less powerful as time went on.
0.0%			d.	were attacked by progressive reformers, and gradually became less powerful as time went on.
0.0%			e.	All these answers are correct.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 11  (1 point)
Woodrow Wilson helped create the Federal Reserve system as part of his effort to end trusts.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 12  (1 point)
In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	New York state banned factories from employing women under the age of sixteen.
0.0%			b.	factories taller than ten stories could only use the upper floors as storage of materials.
0.0%			c.	few true reforms of industry were made.
100.0%			d.	strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.
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0.0%			e.	Tammany Democrats attempted to thwart the New York state commission examining the fire.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 13  (1 point)
During the progressive era, employers were generally unconcerned about the problem of alcohol.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 14  (1 point)
Progressives tended to believe that the doctrine of Social Darwinism was the correct starting point for creating a better world.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	0 / 1

Question 15  (1 point)
Conservative Republicans opposed President Roosevelt's public reclamation and irrigation projects.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 16  (1 point)
The Women's Christian Temperance Union
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.	was, at one time, the largest women's organization in American history.
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0.0%			b.	called for an end to saloons, not for a full prohibition on alcoholic beverages.
0.0%			c.	was later replaced by the Anti-Saloon League.
0.0%			d.	was headed by a male president.
0.0%			e.	was founded during the Progressive Era.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 17  (1 point)
Both Louis Brandeis and Herbert Croly agreed that bigness in business had to be eradicated.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.
TRUE
100.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1

Question 18  (1 point)
Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	almost no women were able to have professional careers.
0.0%			b.	the majority of professional women were nurses.
100.0%			c.	social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.
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0.0%			d.	educated black women were barred from all professional opportunities.
0.0%			e.	women were forced out of nursing as the occupation gained distinction.

Score:	1 / 1

Question 19  (1 point)
The term "muckrakers" referred to
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
0.0%			a.	western progressives.
0.0%			b.	Social Darwinists.
0.0%			c.	socialists.
0.0%			d.	critics of imperialism.
100.0%			e.	journalists.
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Score:	1 / 1

Question 20  (1 point)
Progressives held that enlightened public opinion could change the world.
Student response:
Percent
Value	Correct
Response	Student
Response	Answer Choices
100.0%			a.
TRUE
0.0%			b.
FALSE

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Score:	1 / 1