Question 1

Why did workers experience the introduction of scientific management as a loss of freedom?

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A)   Scientific management typically lowered wages.
B)   Workers had to work longer hours under scientific management.
C)   Safety conditions worsened when companies introduced scientific management.
D)   Skilled workers under scientific management had to obey very detailed instructions.
E)   Foremen tended to drive workers with more brute force under scientific management.F) A) and B)
G) C) and D)

Question 2

Pragmatism

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A)   promoted free and compulsory education.
B)   insisted that institutions should be judged by concrete effects.
C)   was a short-lived political movement.
D)   was a group of feminist activists.
E)   was aligned with the Catholic Church.F) C) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 3

Theodore Roosevelt wanted immigrants to "Americanize." How were they supposed to do it?

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A)   by paying high taxes
B)   by marrying a U.S. citizen
C)   Incorporating their own customs to the "American ways"
D)   by joining Protestant churches
E)   by abandoning the culture and customs of their home countryF) All of the above
G) B) and E)

Question 4

What were the two goals of maternalist reformers for women?

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A)   having good marriages and suffrage
B)   achieving motherhood and economic independence
C)   being married and having healthy children
D)   gaining more factory jobs and having children after the age of 40
E)   being able to divorce and put children up for adoptionF) D) and E)
G) None of the above

Question 5

Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century

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A)   learned English immediately.
B)   planned to remain in the United States temporarily.
C)   generally earned lower wages in America than in their former homelands.
D)   dominated skilled and supervisory jobs.
E)   lived in close-knit communities.F) A) and E)
G) A) and B)

Question 6

Why did Samuel Gompers seek to forge closer ties with forward-looking corporate leaders?

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A)   He wanted to establish employer-financed health care.
B)   He wanted to work his way into circles of political influence.
C)   He wanted to stabilize employer-employee relations.
D)   He hoped to win their support for the nationalization of large industries.
E)   He wanted to explore his own new personal business opportunities.F) B) and C)
G) A) and E)

Question 7

What brought about a new wave of sympathy for the plight of women in the garment industry in Lawrence, Massachusetts?

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A)   The city had extended maximum working hours for garment workers.
B)   The police of Lawrence had severely beaten striking women.
C)   The AFL had negotiated a sham contract for Lawrence's garment factories.
D)   The police had forced the children of Lawrence to leave town.
E)   The appearance of malnourished children who had been evacuated from Lawrence shocked the public.F) B) and C)
G) A) and C)

Question 8

In what way was William Howard Taft a Progressive president?

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A)   He pushed for women's suffrage.
B)   He initiated the trust-busting of Standard Oil.
C)   His secretary of interior added more land under federal protection.
D)   He opposed the Sixteenth Amendment.
E)   He asked Congress to create the Federal Trade Commission.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 9

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-muckrakers

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Question 10

Louis Brandeis believed unions represented a principle of freedom.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-socialism

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Question 12

Briefly explain John Dewey's pragmatism.

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Question 13

Striking working women in Lawrence, Massachusetts,

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A)   made immigrant women work in the factories after the strike.
B)   went to work in rural areas.
C)   sent their children out of town while they went on strike.
D)   were treated kindly by the police because they were seen as the weaker sex.
E)   advocated for the rights of skilled workers only.F) A) and E)
G) B) and D)

Question 14

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-collective bargaining

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Question 15

Which of the following contradictions plagued Progressive reformers' ideas on the political process?

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A)   Progressive reformers rejected party labels but were themselves highly partisan politicians.
B)   Progressive reformers took every opportunity to disclose scandals in muckraking magazines, but they also called for a restriction of free speech.
C)   Progressive reformers recorded the votes of nativists but promised more liberal reforms on immigration.
D)   Progressive reformers worked both to expand the electorate and to shrink its size through other measures.
E)   Progressive reformers believed in the civil rights of children but refused to lower the voting age to sixteen.F) None of the above
G) B) and D)

Question 16

Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century is true?

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A)   Southerners fully participated in the mass-consumption society.
B)   The promise of mass consumption became the foundation for a new understanding of freedom.
C)   Rural dwellers purchased goods in department stores and chain stores.
D)   City people purchased goods through mail-order catalogs.
E)   The new advertising industry often linked services with ethnic identities.F) A) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

Margaret Sanger was against birth-control devices.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Henry George introduced a slate of political changes known as the Oregon System. The system included which of the following?

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A)   social and economic equality
B)   more power to large corporations
C)   the concept of indirect democracy
D)   initiative, referendum, and recall
E)   the creation of a third political forceF) C) and E)
G) D) and E)

Question 19

Progressive-era immigration formed part of a larger process of worldwide migration that was set in motion by industrial expansion and the decline of traditional agriculture.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Identify and give the historical significance of each of the following terms, events, and people in a paragraph or two.
-Carlos Montezuma

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Henry George introduced a slate of political changes known as the Oregon System. The system included which of the following?

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Most new immigrants who arrived during the early years of the twentieth century

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Theodore Roosevelt wanted immigrants to "Americanize." How were they supposed to do it?

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Pragmatism

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