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How did the Progressive Party set itself apart from the Democratic and Republican parties?

A
The Progressive Party strongly supported the rights of businesses.
B
The Progressive Party strongly supported women’s suffrage.
C
The Progressive Party strongly supported racial equality.
D
The Progressive Party strongly supported the rights of immigrants.
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Roosevelt chose a bull moose as a symbol for his new Progressive Party because

A
he wanted to show he sided with Democrats on key issues.
B
he fought like one for things he believed in.
C
he had helped preserve them in Washington State.
D
he wanted to show he sided with Republicans on key issues.
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How did the Progressive Party set itself apart from the Democratic and Republican parties?

A
The Progressive Party strongly supported the rights of businesses.
B
The Progressive Party strongly supported women’s suffrage.
C
The Progressive Party strongly supported racial equality.
D
The Progressive Party strongly supported the rights of immigrants.
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To which of the following did Theodore Roosevelt compare the role of a president?

A
police commissioner
B
steward
C
king
D
state assemblyman
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Roosevelt’s positions on conservation and the environment are best characterized as

A
moderate.
B
radical.
C
progressive.
D
conservative.
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Read the quotation from Booker T. Washington's 1895 Atlanta Compromise Speech."In the great leap from slavery to freedom...the masses of us are to live by the production of our hands...we shall prosper...as we learn to dignify and glorify common labor."According to this quotation, Washington believed that

A
hard work had its own kind of dignity.
B
hard work was more important than education.
C
people could not prosper from common labor.
D
people had to prosper in order to achieve freedom.
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In what way did Carrie Chapman Catt contribute to social reform in this era?

A
She wrote the Women’s Suffrage Amendment.
B
She founded the American Woman Suffrage Association.
C
She developed a new strategy to pursue women’s voting rights.
D
She carried out extreme tactics to bring attention to women’s voting rights.
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Who received benefits from settlement houses in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

A
young women from wealthy families
B
immigrants who had recently come to America
C
reformers like Jacob Riis and Lincoln Steffens
D
members of the middle-class people who needed a place to live
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When were Jim Crow laws first legislated and enforced on Black people?

A
starting in the late 1800s into the 1960s
B
starting in the 1600s with colonial slavery
C
starting in the 1950s during the civil rights movement
D
starting after the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling
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In the late 1800s and early 1900s, reformers helped immigrants assimilate into American culture by

A
isolating them from American citizens.
B
separating them from their family members.
C
teaching them how to speak English.
D
teaching them foreign languages.
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In 1954, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education

A
overturned Plessy v. Ferguson by ruling segregation unconstitutional.
B
stated that African American and white schools needed to be equal.
C
upheld the Separate Car Act by ruling that segregation was legal.
D
upheld Plessy v. Ferguson by ruling segregation constitutional.
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In what way did the Declaration of Sentiments express support for women?

A
It stated that men and women are equal.
B
It asked for equal pay for men and women.
C
It endorsed overall safety in the home for women.
D
It demanded women be appointed to jobs in government.
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The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

A
racially segregated facilities.
B
scare tactics to enforce Jim Crow laws.
C
racially segregated housing.
D
“separate but equal” schools.
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Why did the Interstate Commerce Commission have difficulty enforcing reforms?

A
The courts often ruled against the commission.
B
The commission had no power to ban rate discrimination.
C
The commission members supported laissez-faire policies.
D
The courts would not hear cases on interstate commerce.
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Which of the following best states how World War I affected President Wilson’s position on women’s suffrage?

A
Wilson started to champion women’s suffrage after the war began.
B
Wilson stopped supporting women’s suffrage after the war began.
C
Wilson continued to fight for women’s suffrage after the war began.
D
Wilson’s continued to oppose women’s suffrage after the war began.
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Which scenario is illegal under the Equal Pay Act of 1963?

A
paying a woman less than a man when both perform the same job
B
asking a woman to wear more formal clothes in the workplace
C
refusing to provide women with separate restrooms in the workplace
D
choosing to promote a man before a woman when both are equally qualified
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Which of the following best illustrates a direct consequence of the social gospel movement?

A
Hundreds of settlement houses opened across the United States.
B
Social Darwinists began encouraging people not to help less-fortunate people.
C
The Salvation Army offered different kinds of services to less-fortunate people.
D
Protestant Christians formed groups that opposed drinking alcohol.
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Which legislation did Theodore Roosevelt sign as president regarding his philosophy of conservation?

A
the regulation of the drug industry.
B
the creation of new railroads.
C
the creation of new national parks.
D
the regulation of the food industry.
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Roosevelt’s positions on conservation and the environment are best characterized as

A
moderate.
B
radical.
C
progressive.
D
conservative.
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Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities."My purpose was . . . to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride." According to Steffens, what was the purpose of muckraking journalism?

A
to encourage people to buy fewer newspapers
B
to encourage people to become muckraking journalists themselves
C
to encourage people to rise up against their government
D
to encourage people to take action against widespread corruption

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