Practice Test

Question 1

In which area did Theodore Roosevelt fail to enact reforms?

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B: child labor

Question 2

Which best describes Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” to achieve national women's suffrage?

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B: to win women’s suffrage in as many states as possible while campaigning Congress to pass a constitutional amendment

Question 3

How did Populists want the government to handle currency in the late 1800s?

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C: Populists wanted the government to make unlimited silver coins.

Question 4

What effect, if any, did Plessy v. Ferguson have on the South’s Jim Crow laws?

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C: The case strengthened the laws.

Question 5

How did the role of women during World War I affect the suffragist movement?

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C: Women served as nurses and ambulance drivers during the war, convincing people to support their right to vote.

Question 6

Reform elements such as the recall, the referendum, and the initiative were primarily designed to give power to

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B: voters.

Question 7

In what way did Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth” challenge social Darwinism?

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D: Carnegie stated that the wealthy are the fittest and therefore have an obligation to the less fortunate.

Question 8

During the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt, how did the US government protect businesses?

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C: by breaking up a railroad trust

Question 9

What did the People’s Party believe would result from the government taking control of America’s railroads and banks?

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A: Government control would prevent those industries from taking advantage of small farmers.

Question 10

Which best defines a graduated income tax?

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A: a tax in which higher earners pay more than lower earners

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