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Who were the progressives?
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Mostly middle-class female urban dwellers
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Mostly aristocratic male urban dwellers
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Mostly middle-class male farmers
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What were some goals of the progressives? Check all that apply.
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Human intervention in social & economic affairs
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To regulate and/or break up trusts
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To create more trusts
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To create longer working hours
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Who were the Muckrakers?
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Journalists who exposed the evils and corruption of society through exploitative and dramatic writing
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Journalists who wrote short pamphlets about how farmers were losing their freedom
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Farmers who circulated journalism in their local communities
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What was the social gospel?
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Powerful Protestant movement whose main desire was to improve conditions in the cities
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Powerful Catholic movement whose main desire was to improve conditions in the cities
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Powerful Protestant movement whose main desire was to improve technology for rural farmers
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What types of demographics did settlement houses help, and how?
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They helped immigrants, women and children adjust to American life
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They helped women in their crusade for suffrage
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They helped poor people, but not immigrants find suitable housing
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What profession did settlement houses inspire?
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Social work
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Psychology
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Prostitution
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What were some new reforms for professions? Check all that apply.
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American Medical Association (AMA) which put up rigid standards for who could practice medicine
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State-established bar associations so that only those who passed an exam could become a lawyer
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National Farm Bureau Federation
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Knights of Labor
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Federation of Female Laborers
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What were the 3 most common professions for (middle class) women during the progressive era?
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Settlement houses, teaching, social work
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Business administrators, typists, secretaries
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Engineers, mechanics, designers
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What were the 3 most female-dominated reform movements?
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Settlement houses, temperance, and suffrage
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Labor reform, profession reform, policy reform
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Suffrage, temperance, and profession reform
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What were women's clubs and why were they significant?
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They were organizations where women could meet, and they helped pass child labor laws and prohibition laws
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They were organizations that opposed women in the progressive movement and believed in reverting back to traditional Republican motherhood
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They were organization where women could meet, and they attempted to revoke previously passed child labor laws
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What specific claim allowed the women's suffrage movement to gain more momentum?
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When suffragists argued that the "separate spheres" would remain
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When suffragists argued that the "separate spheres" would be abolished
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When suffragists handed the control of their movement to men
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What was initiative, and what was referendum?
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Initiative was when voters could propose legislation, referendum was when the final approval of laws could be approved by voters
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Initiative was when the final approval of laws could be approved by voters, referendum was when voters could propose legislation
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Initiative was when voters could propose the final approval of laws, referendum was when laws could be approved by voters
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What was the Secret Australian Ballot and why was it significant?
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A process in which no one could see who a voter voted for, so it eliminated voter fraud
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A process in which voting was public and everyone could see who the person next to them voted for, so it eliminated voter fraud
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A process in which groups went and secretly stuffed ballot boxes to ensure certain victories, so it increased voter fraud
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What does the Seventeenth Amendment guarantee?
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Direct election of US Senators by citizens, not state legislatures
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Direct election of US Senators by state legislatures, not citizens
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The removal of the Senate from the bicameral legislature
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What were some reforms introduced by Wisconsin Governor/Senator Robert La Follette? Check all that apply.
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Income taxes on inheritances
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Initiatives and referendums
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Regulations on railroads and industries
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Income taxes on furniture
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Women's suffrage in the state of Wisconsin
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What was a major factor in the decline in voter turnout between 1900 and 1920?
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Declining influence of party bosses
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Rising influence of party bosses
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The elimination of party bosses altogether
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What is the significance of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire?
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The majority of deaths were women and young girls, most of which were immigrants
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The majority of deaths were young boys, most of which were not immigrants
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The majority of deaths were men, most of which were immigrants
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What were some things that W.E.B. DuBois believed/did that differed from the ideas of Booker T. Washington?
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Black people should not try to assimilate and conform to white society
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Black people should have full access to education, not just at black colleges
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Formed the Niagara Movement which later merged into the NAACP
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Formed the Seneca Movement which later merged into the NAACP
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Black people should not run for governmental office
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What was a large women's temperance organization, and what did they believe?
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The Women's Christian Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness caused spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency
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The Men's Christian Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness caused spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency
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The Women's Jewish Temperance Union, who believed that drunkenness cause spousal abuse and industrial inefficiency
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What did the Eighteenth Amendment ban?
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The production and sale of alcohol
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The production and sale of tobacco
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The production and sale of sugar
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Who was the first person to run for president from the American Socialist Party?
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Eugene V. Debs
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Bernie Sanders
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What was the nickname of the International Workers of the World, and what were they known for?
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They were nicknamed the Wobblies, and were known for striking very often
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They were nicknamed the Wibblies, and were known for being very content in their jobs and never striking
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They were nicknamed the Wigglies, and were known for openly killing workers on strike
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What was considered to be the greatest threat to national economy?
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Excessive centralized corporate power
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Excessive decentralized corporate power
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Excessive widely spread agrarian power
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What did the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th Amendments decree respectively?
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Graduated income tax, direct election of senators, prohibition of alcohol, women's suffrage
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Women's suffrage, graduated income tax, direct election of senators, prohibition of alcohol
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Direct election of senators, graduated income tax, prohibition of alcohol, women's suffrage
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What were some problems that people thought immigration restriction would solve? Check all that apply.
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Overcrowding
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Cultural tensions
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Social unrest
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Poverty
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The Gold Standard
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Political corruption
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