Question 1

Analyze and assess the presidential election results of 1912.

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Question 2

Alice Paul of the National Woman's Party pioneered the "separate sphere" argument for woman suffrage.

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 B)False

Question 3

How could immigration restriction be considered a part of progressive reform?

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Question 4

The 1912 presidential election was an ideological contest between

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A)  conservatives and reformers.
B)  different types of progressivism.
C)  the "New Freedom" and the "New Nationalism."
D)  both different types of progressivism,and the "New Freedom" 'and "New Nationalism."
E)  All these answers are correct.F) B) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

In his political program known as the "New Freedom," Woodrow Wilson believed trusts

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A)  needed to be tightly regulated by the federal government.
B)  should be destroyed.
C)  should exist only if they benefited the middle class.
D)  should have the right to expand.
E)  should exist only if they recognized labor's right to organize.F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 6

When it came to environmental issues,Theodore Roosevelt

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A)  helped establish the federal government's role in managing the nation's wilderness.
B)  was the first American president to take an active interest in environmental conservation.
C)  restricted private development on millions of acres of undeveloped government land.
D)  both was the first American president to take an active interest in environmental conservation and helped establish the federal government's role in managing the nation's wilderness.
E)  All these answers are correct.F) A) and B)
G) B) and D)

Question 7

What was Theodore Roosevelt's conception of the presidency,and how did his actions conform to that conception?

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Question 8

In the controversy between Gifford Pinchot and Richard Ballinger,President Taft supported Ballinger.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Pressure favoring prohibition grew steadily during the early decades of the twentieth century.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

President Roosevelt moved to ease the Panic of 1907 by agreeing to the purchase of the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by ________.

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Question 11

Alice Paul and the National Women's Party

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A)  believed the Nineteenth Amendment would be sufficient to protect women's rights.
B)  argued that some discrimination on the basis of sex,such as protective legislation,was worthy.
C)  enjoyed the support of all the most important leaders of the suffrage crusade.
D)  both argued that some discrimination on the basis of sex,such as protective legislation,was worthy; and enjoyed the support of all the most important leaders of the suffrage crusade.
E)  None of these answers is correct.F) A) and B)
G) All of the above

Question 12

In regards to divorce in the United States during the progressive era,by 1916

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A)  the majority of divorces were initiated by men.
B)  more than ten percent of all marriages ended in divorce.
C)  the rate of divorce rate declined.
D)  nearly all states did not allow divorce.
E)  women began gaining the right to divorce in many states.F) A) and D)
G) D) and E)

Question 13

Conservative Republicans opposed President Roosevelt's public reclamation and irrigation projects.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens could both be called muckrakers.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

President Roosevelt showed himself to be a trustbuster in his action against the Northern ________ Company.

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Question 16

In the election of 1908,William Howard Taft

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A)  was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.
B)  narrowly defeated his opponent,William Jennings Bryan.
C)  was opposed by progressives and conservatives.
D)  had a public image very much like that of Theodore Roosevelt.
E)  decisively defeated his Republican opponent in the general election.F) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 17

The term "Boston marriage" refers to

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A)  two women who lived together.
B)  an unmarried man and woman who lived together.
C)  the marriage of a woman who had become pregnant.
D)  a married man with a mistress.
E)  a marriage lasting less than two years.F) B) and E)
G) A) and D)

Question 18

The middle-class women's club movement confined itself to working on middle-class issues.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 20

Why were western states often on the leading edge of political reform and women's voting rights?

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Ida Tarbell and Lincoln Steffens could both be called muckrakers.

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The temperance movement was strengthened by World War I.

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In the controversy between Gifford Pinchot and Richard Ballinger,President Taft supported Ballinger.

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Pressure favoring prohibition grew steadily during the early decades of the twentieth century.

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When it came to environmental issues,Theodore Roosevelt

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How could immigration restriction be considered a part of progressive reform?

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