Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-muckrakers

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers were investigative journalist

Question 2

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

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A) using the military to force the miners back to work. 
B) passing legislation making the miners' union illegal. 
C) helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers. 
D) serving as a labor mediator to have the miners' union and mine owners come to a negotiated settlement guaranteeing the right of the miners to unionize. 
E) threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops. 
A) using the military to force the miners back to work. 
B) passing legislation making the miners' union illegal. 
C) helping the mine owners to import strike-breakers. 
D) serving as a labor mediator to have the miners' union and mine owners come to a negotiated settlement guaranteeing the right of the miners to unionize. 
E) threatening to seize the mines and to operate them with federal troops.

Question 3

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

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A) big-stick diplomacy. 
B) the Open Door policy. 
C) the Good Neighbor policy. 
D) dollar diplomacy. 
E) sphere-of-influence diplomacy. 
A) big-stick diplomacy. 
B) the Open Door policy. 
C) the Good Neighbor policy. 
D) dollar diplomacy. 
E) sphere-of-influence diplomacy.

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-preservationism

Accepted Answer

Preservationism is a philosophy and envi

Question 5

Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Eighteenth Amendment

Accepted Answer

The Eighteenth Amendment to the United S

Question 7

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

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A) exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires' club. 
B) exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas. 
C) uncovered the corruption and collusion between municipal government and the Standard Oil Company. 
D) uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery. 
E) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government. 
A) exposed the United States Senate as a millionaires' club. 
B) exposed the deplorable condition of blacks in urban areas. 
C) uncovered the corruption and collusion between municipal government and the Standard Oil Company. 
D) uncovered official collusion in prostitution and white slavery. 
E) unmasked the corrupt alliance between big business and municipal government.

Question 8

Why did feminists, and middle-class women generally, play such a prominent role in the progressive movement? Were feminist and progressive goals essentially identical, or were there areas where the two movements differed?

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Feminists and middle-class women played

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Old Guard

Accepted Answer

The term "Old Guard" can refer to differ

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-initiative

Accepted Answer

The initiative is a process that enables

Question 11

Progressivism

Accepted Answer

A) was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes. 
B) offered little to the growing women's movement. 
C) supported better treatment of women but not women's suffrage. 
D) saw racial issues as more important than women's issues. 
E) reflected the opinions and views of white working-class women and men on how to achieve social and political reforms. 
A) was closely tied to the feminist movement and women's causes. 
B) offered little to the growing women's movement. 
C) supported better treatment of women but not women's suffrage. 
D) saw racial issues as more important than women's issues. 
E) reflected the opinions and views of white working-class women and men on how to achieve social and political reforms.

Question 12

​In Varying Viewpoints: Who Were the Progressives?, brief descriptions of the answer to this fundamental question of the true identity of the progressive movement are offered by different historians representing multiple historiographic schools of interpretation. Which historiographic interpretation of the motivations, goals, and outcomes of the progressives' efforts presented in this essay do you find the most persuasive? Why is this historiographic interpretation of the progressives the most persuasive analysis? Use specific examples to support your view.
​

Accepted Answer

The most persuasive historiographic inte

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Muller v. Oregon

Accepted Answer

Muller v. Oregon was a landmark decision

Question 14

The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court

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A) declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional. 
B) declared unconstitutional a law providing special protection for women workers. 
C) declared that prohibiting child labor would require a constitutional amendment. 
D) upheld the constitutionality of a law enabling business to fire labor organizers. 
E) None of these choices are correct. 
A) declared a law limiting work to ten hours a day unconstitutional. 
B) declared unconstitutional a law providing special protection for women workers. 
C) declared that prohibiting child labor would require a constitutional amendment. 
D) upheld the constitutionality of a law enabling business to fire labor organizers. 
E) None of these choices are correct.

Question 15

By 1910, all of the following were true about women's efforts to gain the vote except

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A) Progressives supported the movement. 
B) reformers embraced votes for women as a way to elevate the political tone. 
C) Prohibitionists thought they could count of votes of enfranchised women. 
D) a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote was about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states. 
E) states in the West were the first in the country to gradually extend the vote to women. 
A) Progressives supported the movement. 
B) reformers embraced votes for women as a way to elevate the political tone. 
C) Prohibitionists thought they could count of votes of enfranchised women. 
D) a federal constitutional amendment granting the right to vote was about to be enacted by Congress and ratified by the states. 
E) states in the West were the first in the country to gradually extend the vote to women.

Question 16

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Northern Securities case

Accepted Answer

The Northern Securities case refers to a

Question 17

In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What positive solutions did they proposed to address social problems? Be specific.

Accepted Answer

In the view of progressives, American so

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Pure Food and Drug Act

Accepted Answer

The Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 19

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Frances Willard

Accepted Answer

Frances Willard (1839–1898) was a signif

Question 20

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Ray Stannard Baker

Accepted Answer

Ray Stannard Baker (April 17, 1870 – Jul

Exam 28: Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -muckrakers

Teddy Roosevelt helped to end the 1902 strike in the anthracite coal mines by

President Taft's foreign policy was dubbed

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -preservationism

Do you think that Theodore Roosevelt's claim that Taft had abandoned his policies was entirely fair? Why or why not?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eighteenth Amendment

Lincoln Steffens, in his series of articles entitled The Shame of the Cities

Why did feminists, and middle-class women generally, play such a prominent role in the progressive movement? Were feminist and progressive goals essentially identical, or were there areas where the two movements differed?

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Old Guard

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -initiative

Progressivism

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Muller v. Oregon

The case of Lochner v. New York represented a setback for progressives and labor advocates because in its ruling, the Supreme Court

By 1910, all of the following were true about women's efforts to gain the vote except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Northern Securities case

In the view of progressives, what was wrong with American society? What positive solutions did they proposed to address social problems? Be specific.

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Pure Food and Drug Act

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Frances Willard

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ray Stannard Baker

New World Beginnings, 33,000 Bce-1769 Ce

The Planting of English America, 1500-1733

Settling the Northern Colonies, 1619-1700

American Life in the Seventeenth Century, 1607-1692

Colonial Society on the Eve of Revolution, 1700-1775

The Duel for North America, 1608-1763

The Road to Revolution, 1763-1775

America Secedes From the Empire, 1775-1783

The Confederation and the Constitution, 1776-1790

Launching the New Ship of State, 1789-1800

The Triumphs and Travails of the Jeffersonian Republic, 1800-1812

The Second War for Independence and the Upsurge of Nationalism, 1812-1824

The Rise of a Mass Democracy, 1824-1840

Forging the National Economy, 1790-1860

The Ferment of Reform and Culture, 1790-1860

The South and the Slavery Controversy, 1793-1860

Manifest Destiny and Its Legacy, 1841-1848

Renewing the Sectional Struggle, 1848-1854

Drifting Toward Disunion, 1854-1861

Girding for War: the North and the South, 1861-1865

The Furnace of Civil War, 1861-1865

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

The Politics of Boom and Bust 1920-1932

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933-1939

Franklin D Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933-1941

America in World War Ii 1941-1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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