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US History 2 AP Chapter 21 (The Rise of Progressivism) Review

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test your knowledge on the progressive era!! Labor unions! Temperance! Women's suffrage! Socialism! 4 Constitutional amendments in the span of 15 years!
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Question 1

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Who were the progressives?
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  • Mostly middle-class female urban dwellers
  • Mostly aristocratic male urban dwellers
  • Mostly middle-class male farmers

Question 2

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What were some goals of the progressives? Check all that apply.
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  • Human intervention in social & economic affairs
  • To regulate and/or break up trusts
  • To create more trusts
  • To create longer working hours

Question 3

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Who were the Muckrakers?
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  • Journalists who exposed the evils and corruption of society through exploitative and dramatic writing
  • Journalists who wrote short pamphlets about how farmers were losing their freedom
  • Farmers who circulated journalism in their local communities

Question 4

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What was the social gospel?
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  • Powerful Protestant movement whose main desire was to improve conditions in the cities
  • Powerful Catholic movement whose main desire was to improve conditions in the cities
  • Powerful Protestant movement whose main desire was to improve technology for rural farmers

Question 5

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What types of demographics did settlement houses help, and how?
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  • They helped immigrants, women and children adjust to American life
  • They helped women in their crusade for suffrage
  • They helped poor people, but not immigrants find suitable housing

Question 6

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What profession did settlement houses inspire?
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  • Social work
  • Psychology
  • Prostitution

Question 7

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What were some new reforms for professions? Check all that apply.
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  • American Medical Association (AMA) which put up rigid standards for who could practice medicine
  • State-established bar associations so that only those who passed an exam could become a lawyer
  • National Farm Bureau Federation
  • Knights of Labor
  • Federation of Female Laborers

Question 8

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What were the 3 most common professions for (middle class) women during the progressive era?
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  • Settlement houses, teaching, social work
  • Business administrators, typists, secretaries
  • Engineers, mechanics, designers

Question 9

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What were the 3 most female-dominated reform movements?
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  • Settlement houses, temperance, and suffrage
  • Labor reform, profession reform, policy reform
  • Suffrage, temperance, and profession reform

Question 10

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What were women's clubs and why were they significant?
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  • They were organizations where women could meet, and they helped pass child labor laws and prohibition laws
  • They were organizations that opposed women in the progressive movement and believed in reverting back to traditional Republican motherhood
  • They were organization where women could meet, and they attempted to revoke previously passed child labor laws

Question 11

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What specific claim allowed the women's suffrage movement to gain more momentum?
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  • When suffragists argued that the "separate spheres" would remain
  • When suffragists argued that the "separate spheres" would be abolished
  • When suffragists handed the control of their movement to men

Question 12

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What was initiative, and what was referendum?
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  • Initiative was when voters could propose legislation, referendum was when the final approval of laws could be approved by voters
  • Initiative was when the final approval of laws could be approved by voters, referendum was when voters could propose legislation
  • Initiative was when voters could propose the final approval of laws, referendum was when laws could be approved by voters

Question 13

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What was the Secret Australian Ballot and why was it significant?
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  • A process in which no one could see who a voter voted for, so it eliminated voter fraud
  • A process in which voting was public and everyone could see who the person next to them voted for, so it eliminated voter fraud
  • A process in which groups went and secretly stuffed ballot boxes to ensure certain victories, so it increased voter fraud

Question 14

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What does the Seventeenth Amendment guarantee?
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  • Direct election of US Senators by citizens, not state legislatures
  • Direct election of US Senators by state legislatures, not citizens
  • The removal of the Senate from the bicameral legislature

Question 15

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What were some reforms introduced by Wisconsin Governor/Senator Robert La Follette? Check all that apply.
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  • Income taxes on inheritances
  • Initiatives and referendums
  • Regulations on railroads and industries
  • Income taxes on furniture
  • Women's suffrage in the state of Wisconsin

Question 16

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What was a major factor in the decline in voter turnout between 1900 and 1920?
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  • Declining influence of party bosses
  • Rising influence of party bosses
  • The elimination of party bosses altogether

Question 17

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What is the significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
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  • The majority of deaths were women and young girls, most of which were immigrants
  • The majority of deaths were young boys, most of which were not immigrants
  • The majority of deaths were men, most of which were immigrants

Question 18

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What were some things that W.E.B. DuBois believed/did that differed from the ideas of Booker T. Washington?
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  • Black people should not try to assimilate and conform to white society
  • Black people should have full access to education, not just at black colleges
  • Formed the Niagara Movement which later merged into the NAACP
  • Formed the Seneca Movement which later merged into the NAACP
  • Black people should not run for governmental office

Question 19

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What was a large women's temperance organization, and what did they believe?
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  • The Women's Christian Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness caused spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency
  • The Men's Christian Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness caused spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency
  • The Women's Jewish Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness cause spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency

Question 20

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What did the Eighteenth Amendment ban?
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  • The production and sale of alcohol
  • The production and sale of tobacco
  • The production and sale of sugar

Question 21

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Who was the first person to run for president from the American Socialist Party?
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  • Eugene V. Debs
  • Theodore Roosevelt
  • Bernie Sanders

Question 22

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What was the nickname of the International Workers of the World, and what were they known for?
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  • They were nicknamed the Wobblies, and were known for striking very often
  • They were nicknamed the Wibblies, and were known for being very content in their jobs and never striking
  • They were nicknamed the Wigglies, and were known for openly killing workers on strike

Question 23

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What was considered to be the greatest threat to national economy?
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  • Excessive centralized corporate power
  • Excessive decentralized corporate power
  • Excessive widely spread agrarian power

Question 24

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What did the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments decree respectively?
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  • Graduated income tax, direct election of senators, prohibition of alcohol, women's suffrage
  • Women's suffrage, graduated income tax, direct election of senators, prohibition of alcohol
  • Direct election of senators, graduated income tax, prohibition of alcohol, women's suffrage

Question 25

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What were some problems that people thought immigration restriction would solve? Check all that apply.
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  • Overcrowding
  • Cultural tensions
  • Social unrest
  • Poverty
  • The Gold Standard
  • Political corruption
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