Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Accepted Answer

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire was a catas

Question 2

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-"separate spheres"

Accepted Answer

The concept of "separate spheres" refers

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Ballinger-Pinchot affair

Accepted Answer

The Ballinger-Pinchot affair was a polit

Question 4

​The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912

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A) featured the support of prominent women progressives and social reformers such as Jane Addams. 
B) failed to endorse significant social justice causes such women's suffrage, minimum wage laws, and publicly supported health care. 
C) assumed the animal symbol of the "bull moose" to represent the strength and aggressiveness of Roosevelt. 
D) never developed a coherent political programmatic counterpart to Wilson's New Freedom campaign. 
E) possessed such a ​limited progressive scope that it cannot be considered a harbinger of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and a vision for a comprehensive welfare state. 
A) featured the support of prominent women progressives and social reformers such as Jane Addams. 
B) failed to endorse significant social justice causes such women's suffrage, minimum wage laws, and publicly supported health care. 
C) assumed the animal symbol of the "bull moose" to represent the strength and aggressiveness of Roosevelt. 
D) never developed a coherent political programmatic counterpart to Wilson's New Freedom campaign. 
E) possessed such a ​limited progressive scope that it cannot be considered a harbinger of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and a vision for a comprehensive welfare state.

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-The Shame of the Cities

Accepted Answer

"The Shame of the Cities" is a book writ

Question 6

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​New Freedom

Accepted Answer

The New Freedom was a political agenda a

Question 7

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Eugene V. Debs

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Eugene V. Debs was an American socialist

Question 8

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-the Square Deal

Accepted Answer

The Square Deal was a domestic program f

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Elkins Act

Accepted Answer

The Elkins Act, passed by the United Sta

Question 10

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of

Accepted Answer

A) Theodore Dreiser's The Titan. 
B) Jack London's The Call of the Wild. 
C) Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth Against Commonwealth. 
D) Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives. 
E) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. 
A) Theodore Dreiser's The Titan. 
B) Jack London's The Call of the Wild. 
C) Henry Demarest Lloyd's Wealth Against Commonwealth. 
D) Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives. 
E) Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

Question 11

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the

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A) unsanitary conditions that existed in the meat-packing industry. 
B) plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry. 
C) corruption in the United States Senate. 
D) deplorable conditions in the drug industry. 
E) unhealthy effects of beef consumption. 
A) unsanitary conditions that existed in the meat-packing industry. 
B) plight of workers in the stockyards and meat-packing industry. 
C) corruption in the United States Senate. 
D) deplorable conditions in the drug industry. 
E) unhealthy effects of beef consumption.

Question 12

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Thorstein Veblen

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Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929) was an Amer

Question 13

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that

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A) child labor under the age of fourteen should be prohibited. 
B) the federal government should regulate occupational safety and health. 
C) women's factory labor should be limited to ten hours a day five days a week. 
D) female workers should receive equal pay for equal work. 
E) female workers required special rules and protection on the job. 
A) child labor under the age of fourteen should be prohibited. 
B) the federal government should regulate occupational safety and health. 
C) women's factory labor should be limited to ten hours a day five days a week. 
D) female workers should receive equal pay for equal work. 
E) female workers required special rules and protection on the job.

Question 14

Progressive reformers included which of the following?

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A) Antiliquor campaigners 
B) Pacifists 
C) Female settlement workers 
D) Labor unionists 
E) All of these choices are correct. 
A) Antiliquor campaigners 
B) Pacifists 
C) Female settlement workers 
D) Labor unionists 
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 15

Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with

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A) prostitution. 
B) drunken voters. 
C) crooked city officials, paid off by liquor companies. 
D) corrupt political bosses. 
E) All of these choices are correct. 
A) prostitution. 
B) drunken voters. 
C) crooked city officials, paid off by liquor companies. 
D) corrupt political bosses. 
E) All of these choices are correct.

Question 16

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions.
-President Roosevelt and his chief forestry official, Gifford Pinchot, promoted a view of conservation that involved

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A) supporting individual ranchers and loggers against big business. 
B) protecting natural resources for long-term enjoyment and use by the American people. 
C) permitting multiple uses of protected federal lands and national parks. 
D) preventing all public lands from being used for private profit. 
E) encouraging authorized private corporations to manage certain national parks. 
A) supporting individual ranchers and loggers against big business. 
B) protecting natural resources for long-term enjoyment and use by the American people. 
C) permitting multiple uses of protected federal lands and national parks. 
D) preventing all public lands from being used for private profit. 
E) encouraging authorized private corporations to manage certain national parks.

Question 17

The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to

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A) fragment the political power of big business. 
B) prove that the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States. 
C) halt the trend toward combination and integration in business. 
D) win reelection as president by attacking the unpopular trusts. 
E) inspire confidence in small business owners. 
A) fragment the political power of big business. 
B) prove that the democratic federal government, not private business, governed the United States. 
C) halt the trend toward combination and integration in business. 
D) win reelection as president by attacking the unpopular trusts. 
E) inspire confidence in small business owners.

Question 18

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Women's Christian Temperance Union

Accepted Answer

The Women's Christian Temperance Union (

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill

Accepted Answer

The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill, passed in

Question 20

Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a(n)

Accepted Answer

A) conservative in progressive clothing. 
B) near-socialist. 
C) middle-of-the-road reformer. 
D) champion trustbuster. 
E) political elitist. 
A) conservative in progressive clothing. 
B) near-socialist. 
C) middle-of-the-road reformer. 
D) champion trustbuster. 
E) political elitist.

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

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Triangle Shirtwaist fire

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -"separate spheres"

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Ballinger-Pinchot affair

​The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -The Shame of the Cities

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​New Freedom

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Eugene V. Debs

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -the Square Deal

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Elkins Act

Passage of the Federal Meat Inspection Act was inspired by the publication of

When Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, he intended his book to focus attention on the

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Thorstein Veblen

In Muller v. Oregon, the Supreme Court upheld the principle promoted by progressives like Florence Kelley and Louis Brandeis that

Progressive reformers included which of the following?

Activists in the anti-liquor campaigns saw saloons and alcohol as intimately linked with

​Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -President Roosevelt and his chief forestry official, Gifford Pinchot, promoted a view of conservation that involved

The real purpose of Teddy Roosevelt's assault on trusts was to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Women's Christian Temperance Union

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Payne-Aldrich Tariff Bill

Theodore Roosevelt is probably most accurately described as a(n)

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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

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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

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Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the Roaring Twenties 1920-1929

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America in World War Ii 1941-1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

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The third-party Progressive Republican presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt in 1912

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -New Freedom

Each of the following multiple choice questions has multiple correct responses. Select the correct responses for each of the following questions. -President Roosevelt and his chief forestry official, Gifford Pinchot, promoted a view of conservation that involved