Question 1

Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual?

Accepted Answer

A)  The primary system of nominating presidents chose the candidates by their salability rather than their qualifications. 
B)  Extraordinary times create extraordinary leaders and this period was not an extraordinary time. 
C)  Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands. 
D)  Exhausted by the Civil War and Reconstruction,politicians allowed the people and themselves to relax. 
A)  The primary system of nominating presidents chose the candidates by their salability rather than their qualifications. 
B)  Extraordinary times create extraordinary leaders and this period was not an extraordinary time. 
C)  Extremely close elections limited their ability to maneuver and take tough political stands. 
D)  Exhausted by the Civil War and Reconstruction,politicians allowed the people and themselves to relax. C

Question 2

Why did Theodore Roosevelt start the Progressive Party in 1912?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Summary of Roosevelt's Political Affiliations: Roosevelt served as a Republican president from 1901,after William McKinley's assassination,until 1908,when he chose to retire.He was a progressive Republican who worked to break up trusts and implement greater federal regulation of the economy and the environment.He was followed in office by his handpicked successor,William Howard Taft.
- 1912 Campaign and Election: Congressional Republicans did not unite behind Taft,and the more progressive among them began to call themselves "insurgents" and to plot their own political agenda.Roosevelt,unhappy with Taft's administration,demanded a "New Nationalism" that would control private property in order to protect the public welfare.He proposed a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,and women's suffrage.Early in 1912 he announced himself as a Republican candidate for president.Roosevelt won in states that held primary elections,but not in those where Taft's people controlled political caucuses.When the Republicans chose Taft,Roosevelt led his followers into a new party he called the Progressive Party,which offered his New Nationalism directly to the people.The election was a four-way race among Taft,Roosevelt,the Democrat Woodrow Wilson,and the Socialist Eugene Debs.Due to Republican divisions,Wilson won the election and the Progressive Party faded.

Question 3

Answer the following  questions :
-Williams v.Mississippi

Accepted Answer

A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions. 
A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions. F

Question 4

After Roosevelt won the presidency in his own right in 1904,he did which of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  Began a campaign to nationalize most large corporations 
B)  Instituted efforts to change the size and composition of the Supreme Court 
C)  Created a new program to transform the country's approach to corporate law 
D)  Implemented his Square Deal by stepping up his attacks on American trusts 
A)  Began a campaign to nationalize most large corporations 
B)  Instituted efforts to change the size and composition of the Supreme Court 
C)  Created a new program to transform the country's approach to corporate law 
D)  Implemented his Square Deal by stepping up his attacks on American trusts

Question 5

Answer the following  questions :
-Wisconsin Idea

Accepted Answer

A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions. 
A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions.

Question 6

In general,progressives differed from labor and farm advocates because the progressives

Accepted Answer

A)  were mostly middle-class urban reformers. 
B)  were often more radical. 
C)  generally had less success on the national level. 
D)  were part of a much more unified and cohesive movement. 
A)  were mostly middle-class urban reformers. 
B)  were often more radical. 
C)  generally had less success on the national level. 
D)  were part of a much more unified and cohesive movement.

Question 7

In a landmark decision regarding the Northern Securities Company,the U.S.Supreme Court

Accepted Answer

A)  declared the Sherman Antitrust Act unconstitutional. 
B)  declared unconstitutional the establishment of the Bureau of Corporations. 
C)  ordered the Northern Securities Company railroad trust dissolved. 
D)  ruled that the Justice Department did not have the legal authority to sue to break up trusts. 
A)  declared the Sherman Antitrust Act unconstitutional. 
B)  declared unconstitutional the establishment of the Bureau of Corporations. 
C)  ordered the Northern Securities Company railroad trust dissolved. 
D)  ruled that the Justice Department did not have the legal authority to sue to break up trusts.

Question 8

Answer the following  questions :
-Industrial Workers of the World

Accepted Answer

A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions. 
A) An 1883 law establishing a nonpartisan Civil Service Commission to fill federal jobs by examination.The act dealt a major blow to the "spoils system" and sought to ensure that government positions were filled by trained,professional employees. 
B) Landmark 1890 act that forbade anticompetitive business activities,requiring the federal government to investigate trusts and any companies operating in violation of the act. 
C) Also known as the Federal Elections Bill of 1890,a bill proposing that whenever 100 citizens in any district appealed for intervention,a bipartisan federal board could investigate and seat the rightful winner.The defeat of the bill was a blow to those seeking to defend African American voting rights and to ensure full participation in politics. 
D) An 1892 statement by the Populists calling for stronger government to protect ordinary Americans. 
E) A policy of loosening the money supply by expanding federal coinage to include silver as well as gold.Advocates of the policy thought it would encourage borrowing and stimulate industry,but the defeat of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan ended the this movement and gave Republicans power to retain the gold standard.
F)An 1898 Supreme Court ruling that allowed states to impose poll taxes and literacy tests.By 1908,every southern state had adopted such measures.
G)A 1905 Supreme Court ruling that New York State could not limit bakers' workday to ten hours because that violated bakers' rights to make contracts.
H)A 1906 antitrust law that empowered the federal Interstate Commerce Commission to set railroad shipment rates wherever they believed that railroads were unfairly colluding to set prices.
I)A 1911 Supreme Court decision that directed the breakup of the Standard Oil Company into smaller companies,because its overwhelming market dominance and monopoly power violated antitrust laws.
J)A 1902 law,supported by President Theodore Roosevelt,that allowed the federal government to sell public lands to raise money for irrigation projects that expanded agriculture on arid lands.
K)A policy promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette of Wisconsin for greater government intervention in the economy,with reliance on experts,particularly progressive economists,for policy recommendations.
L)A reform organization that worked (unsuccessfully)to win a federal law banning child labor.The organization hired photographer Lewis Hine to record brutal conditions in mines and mills where thousands of children worked.
M)A 1908 Supreme Court case that upheld an Oregon law limiting women's workday to ten hours,based on the need to protect women's health for motherhood.Muller complicated the earlier decision in Lochner v.New York,laying out grounds on which states could intervene to protect workers.It divided women's rights activists,however,because some saw its provisions as discriminatory.
N)A term used by Harvard-educated sociologist W.E.B.Du Bois for the top 10 percent of educated African Americans,whom he called on to develop new strategies to advocate for civil rights.
O)An organization founded in 1910 by leading African American reformers and white allies as a vehicle for advocating equal rights for African Americans,especially through the courts.
P)An umbrella union and radical political group founded in 1905,dedicated to organizing unskilled workers to oppose capitalism.Nicknamed the Wobblies,it advocated direct action by workers,including sabotage and general strikes.
Q)In a 1910 speech,Theodore Roosevelt called for the practice of an ideology that promoted government intervention to enhance public welfare,including a federal child labor law,more recognition of labor rights,a national minimum wage for women,women's suffrage,and curbs on the power of federal courts to stop reform.
R)Act establishing the central bank system of the United States,created in 1913.This system helps set the money supply level,thus influencing the rate of growth of the U.S.economy,and seeks to ensure the stability of the U.S.monetary system.
S)A 1914 law that strengthened federal definitions of "monopoly" and gave more power to the Justice Department to pursue antitrust cases;it also specified that labor unions could not generally be prosecuted for "restraint of trade," ensuring that antitrust laws would apply to corporations rather than unions.

Question 9

The Supreme Court's 1908 decision in Muller v.Oregon upheld a law

Accepted Answer

A)  forcing employers to provide day care for workers' children. 
B)  limiting the workday for women to ten hours. 
C)  prohibiting child labor. 
D)  establishing a minimum-wage law for women. 
A)  forcing employers to provide day care for workers' children. 
B)  limiting the workday for women to ten hours. 
C)  prohibiting child labor. 
D)  establishing a minimum-wage law for women.

Question 10

What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated,"You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in his famous 1896 speech?

Accepted Answer

A)  The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry. 
B)  The upper classes had become wealthy by the suffering of the working class. 
C)  Conditions in the western gold mines had become too dangerous for workers. 
D)  The upper class should pay income taxes to support relief programs for the poor. 
A)  The United States should abandon the gold standard to stimulate industry. 
B)  The upper classes had become wealthy by the suffering of the working class. 
C)  Conditions in the western gold mines had become too dangerous for workers. 
D)  The upper class should pay income taxes to support relief programs for the poor.

Question 11

For this question,refer to the following excerpt. There is no question which of the great parties represents the house of Have and which the house of Want....Democrat[s] are cramped for want of funds....On the other hand there is practically "no end of money" at the disposal of the McKinley committees....
As for the banks,the great railroad companies and insurance companies,who,even in ordinary times find it to their interest to help financially one,and frequently both,sides ... ,their purse strings are unloosed more freely than ever before,but only in one direction.
The danger to a republican form of government of a money interest in politics is so clear that it needs not to be dwelt upon....The steady tendency of American legislation,national and state,has not merely been to create great special interests,but in the very effort to control them for the benefit of the public,to concern them directly in politics.
Henry George on money in politics,Wheeling Register,September 19,1896
Which of the following groups would be most likely to support the perspective of the excerpt?

Accepted Answer

A)  Political machines 
B)  Members of the People's (Populist)Party 
C)  Leaders of big business 
D)  Advocates of Social Darwinism 
A)  Political machines 
B)  Members of the People's (Populist)Party 
C)  Leaders of big business 
D)  Advocates of Social Darwinism

Question 12

What factors shaped party politics after the end of Reconstruction? How did these factors influence the measures that state and federal governments implemented between 1880 and 1917?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Influent

Question 13

New laws that restricted African Americans' and northern immigrants' access to the vote helped to ensure the passage of

Accepted Answer

A)  the creation of a federal income tax. 
B)  the direct election of U.S.senators. 
C)  women's suffrage. 
D)  free coinage of silver. 
A)  the creation of a federal income tax. 
B)  the direct election of U.S.senators. 
C)  women's suffrage. 
D)  free coinage of silver.

Question 14

During the mid-1890s,many middle-class and prosperous Americans reformers neglected

Accepted Answer

A)  the economic depression of the 1890s. 
B)  labor uprisings such as the Pennsylvania coal strike. 
C)  the political strength of the farmer-labor political movement. 
D)  women's suffrage. 
A)  the economic depression of the 1890s. 
B)  labor uprisings such as the Pennsylvania coal strike. 
C)  the political strength of the farmer-labor political movement. 
D)  women's suffrage.

Question 15

Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's bill to create a bipartisan federal election board fail to pass in the Senate in 1890?

Accepted Answer

A)  Northern liberals were afraid that it provided for too much democracy. 
B)  Urban bosses objected to its assumptions about immigrants. 
C)  Northern manufacturers feared it would empower urban workers. 
D)  President Benjamin Harrison threatened to veto the legislation. 
A)  Northern liberals were afraid that it provided for too much democracy. 
B)  Urban bosses objected to its assumptions about immigrants. 
C)  Northern manufacturers feared it would empower urban workers. 
D)  President Benjamin Harrison threatened to veto the legislation.

Question 16

Between 1910 and 1917,all the industrial states enacted laws that

Accepted Answer

A)  banned child labor in factories. 
B)  gave full voting rights to women. 
C)  provided insurance for on-the-job accidents. 
D)  limited foreign immigration. 
A)  banned child labor in factories. 
B)  gave full voting rights to women. 
C)  provided insurance for on-the-job accidents. 
D)  limited foreign immigration.

Question 17

Mary White Ovington and W.E.B.Du Bois were both founders of the

Accepted Answer

A)  YMCA. 
B)  NAACP. 
C)  New York Consumers' League. 
D)  Progressive Party. 
A)  YMCA. 
B)  NAACP. 
C)  New York Consumers' League. 
D)  Progressive Party.

Question 18

To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike,President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to

Accepted Answer

A)  arrest and jail the companies' workers and owners. 
B)  nationalize the coal companies. 
C)  promote the use of natural gas nationwide. 
D)  institute a federal minimum wage. 
A)  arrest and jail the companies' workers and owners. 
B)  nationalize the coal companies. 
C)  promote the use of natural gas nationwide. 
D)  institute a federal minimum wage.

Question 19

Organized in 1905,the Niagara Movement embraced

Accepted Answer

A)  environmental protection,including clean water. 
B)  a ten-hour workday for public utilities workers. 
C)  equal opportunity for African Americans. 
D)  federal payments to impoverished women and children. 
A)  environmental protection,including clean water. 
B)  a ten-hour workday for public utilities workers. 
C)  equal opportunity for African Americans. 
D)  federal payments to impoverished women and children.

Question 20

What types of progressive legislation passed in the early 1900s? How might results have been different if William McKinley had survived the assassination attempt and remained as president,rather than his successor,Theodore Roosevelt?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Regulato

Exam 19: Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

Why were the presidents in office during the period from 1877 to 1895 generally undistinguished and ineffectual?

Why did Theodore Roosevelt start the Progressive Party in 1912?

Answer the following questions : -Williams v.Mississippi

After Roosevelt won the presidency in his own right in 1904,he did which of the following?

Answer the following questions : -Wisconsin Idea

In general,progressives differed from labor and farm advocates because the progressives

In a landmark decision regarding the Northern Securities Company,the U.S.Supreme Court

Answer the following questions : -Industrial Workers of the World

The Supreme Court's 1908 decision in Muller v.Oregon upheld a law

What did William Jennings Bryan mean when he stated,"You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold" in his famous 1896 speech?

What factors shaped party politics after the end of Reconstruction? How did these factors influence the measures that state and federal governments implemented between 1880 and 1917?

New laws that restricted African Americans' and northern immigrants' access to the vote helped to ensure the passage of

During the mid-1890s,many middle-class and prosperous Americans reformers neglected

Why did Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's bill to create a bipartisan federal election board fail to pass in the Senate in 1890?

Between 1910 and 1917,all the industrial states enacted laws that

Mary White Ovington and W.E.B.Du Bois were both founders of the

To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike,President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to

Organized in 1905,the Niagara Movement embraced

What types of progressive legislation passed in the early 1900s? How might results have been different if William McKinley had survived the assassination attempt and remained as president,rather than his successor,Theodore Roosevelt?

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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