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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Fordism


A) The Jungle
B) direct election of senators
C) socialist newspaper
D) limited working hours for women
E) writer or journalist
F) mass production and consumption
G) West Coast immigration center
H) aid to immigrants
I) twelve regional banks
J) Roosevelt's campaign
K) graduated income tax
L) Wilson's campaign

M) H) and J)
N) F) and H)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Seventeenth Amendment


A) The Jungle
B) direct election of senators
C) socialist newspaper
D) limited working hours for women
E) writer or journalist
F) mass production and consumption
G) West Coast immigration center
H) aid to immigrants
I) twelve regional banks
J) Roosevelt's campaign
K) graduated income tax
L) Wilson's campaign

M) J) and K)
N) B) and D)

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

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Appeal to Reason


A) The Jungle
B) direct election of senators
C) socialist newspaper
D) limited working hours for women
E) writer or journalist
F) mass production and consumption
G) West Coast immigration center
H) aid to immigrants
I) twelve regional banks
J) Roosevelt's campaign
K) graduated income tax
L) Wilson's campaign

M) B) and J)
N) A) and I)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Theodore Roosevelt


A) scientific management
B) birth-control movement
C) Industrial Workers of the World
D) Supreme Court justice
E) Hull House
F) United Mine Workers
G) moving assembly line
H) Wisconsin Progressive
I) socialist leader
J) Square Deal
K) Women and Economics
L) Sierra Club

M) A) and E)
N) E) and I)

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

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Which of the following statements about mass consumption in the early twentieth century is NOT true?


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) Urban dwellers purchased goods in department stores and chain stores.
D) Rural people purchased goods through mail-order catalogs.
E) The new advertising industry often linked goods with the idea of freedom.

F) D) and E)
G) All of the above

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The writer whose work encouraged the passage of the Meat Inspection Act was:


A) Henry George.
B) Theodore Dreiser.
C) Upton Sinclair.
D) Ida Tarbell.
E) Lincoln Steffens.

F) B) and D)
G) All of the above

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -John Mitchell


A) scientific management g.moving assembly line
B) birth-control movement h.Wisconsin Progressive
C) Industrial Workers of the World i.socialist leader
D) Supreme Court justice j.Square Deal
E) Hull House k.Women and Economics
F) United Mine Workers l.Sierra Club

G) E) and F)
H) A) and B)

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


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) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -Jane Addams


A) scientific management g.moving assembly line
B) birth-control movement h.Wisconsin Progressive
C) Industrial Workers of the World i.socialist leader
D) Supreme Court justice j.Square Deal
E) Hull House k.Women and Economics
F) United Mine Workers l.Sierra Club

G) B) and E)
H) All of the above

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Match the person or term with the with the correct description. -New Freedom


A) The Jungle
B) direct election of senators
C) socialist newspaper
D) limited working hours for women
E) writer or journalist
F) mass production and consumption
G) West Coast immigration center
H) aid to immigrants
I) twelve regional banks
J) Roosevelt's campaign
K) graduated income tax
L) Wilson's campaign

M) A) and B)
N) H) and K)

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Why was "the city" the focus of Progressive politics?


A) The mostly urban immigrant populations wielded significant political clout there.
B) Populists had largely solved the problems that had plagued rural Americans.
C) The overwhelming majority of Americans lived in cities.
D) Urban populations experienced the most dramatic growth and the most significant changes.
E) Progressives were particularly fond of new urban entertainments like dance halls and nickelodeons.

F) B) and E)
G) D) and E)

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The term "Fordism":


A) refers to Henry Ford's invention of the automobile.
B) was used by labor unions, who hailed Ford's innovative approach.
C) describes an economic system based on limited production of high-end goods.
D) refers to Henry Ford's effort to organize workers into a union.
E) describes an economic system based on mass production and mass consumption.

F) A) and B)
G) C) and E)

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Freedom of expression was given new meaning by labor in the Progressive age.Thinking back to previous chapters,compare the various movements to expand the meaning of freedom of expression-from the Alien and Sedition Acts to the abolitionists in the antebellum era-with the labor movement in the Progressive age.Use the "Voices of Freedom" piece.

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The Progressive governor of Wisconsin,Robert M.La Follette,instituted all of the following reforms EXCEPT:


A) using primary elections to select candidates.
B) taxing corporate wealth.
C) regulating railroads and utilities.
D) using nonpartisan university faculty.
E) promising lower taxes and less government interference.

F) A) and C)
G) B) and D)

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


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) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

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Which of the following statements about the idea of "economic citizenship" in the Progressive era is FALSE?


A) It argued that the right to universal economic assistance derived from citizenship itself.
B) It called for local authorities to dispense charity to the poor.
C) It ushered in a wave of state workmen's compensation laws by 1913.
D) It acted as a first wedge to opening broader support for social insurance programs of the future.
E) It blended evangelical Protestantism with a romantic view of nature inspired by the Transcendentalists.

F) B) and D)
G) None of the above

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How did mass consumption in the Progressive era result in new consumer freedoms?


A) Farmers in the heartland had more time and money to attend nickelodeon shows.
B) Department stores provided city residents with access to electric washing machines and vacuum cleaners.
C) Mass-produced radios were able to advertise the availability of new factory products.
D) A and B only
E) None of the above

F) A) and D)
G) B) and D)

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The "new woman" was college educated,middle class,and devoted to providing social services.

A) True
B) False

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