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The Mann-Elkins Act of 1910 extended the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission over which of the following industries? [Choose all that apply]

1. Railroads 2. Telegraph 3. Telephone

Which of the following were two Federal laws passed on the same day that created large bureaucracies to enforce sanitation standards of food transported across state borders? [choose 2]

1. The Pure Food and Drug Act 2. The Meat Inspection Act of 1906

The Sixteenth Amendment authorized Congress to enact which of the following measures?

A Federal income tax

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

A religious movement emphasizing the Church's responsibility to help the poor and marginalized

William Howard Taft became the first President to also hold which of the following positions in the Federal government?

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Taft infuriated Roosevelt and Republican Progressives when he fired which of the following individuals who was serving as head of the U.S. Division of Forestry?

Gifford Pinchot

How did Roosevelt finally resolve the 1902 Coal Strike?

He threatened to send Federal troops to run the private mines in the workers' absence

The _______________ _________________, a settlement house in Chicago founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was one of the most famous of many such institutions, which were devoted to improving living conditions in major cities.

Hull House

Though the People's Party dissolved in the late 1890s, their political philosophies still held influence. Which of the following became the most influential Populist goal in the progressive era?

Limiting protective tariffs

Investigative journalists who exposed corruption and ill treatment of the working poor were known by which of the following terms?

Muckrakers

In 1916, the Federal government created the National ____________ Service to maintain and preserve large areas of land throughout the United States.

Park

William Howard Taft became the first Governor of the _____________ in 1900 and later became Secretary of War under Roosevelt.

Philippines

In 1911, Frederick W. Taylor published The Principles of _____________ Management, which suggested ways to bring greater efficiency to the specific tasks of individual workers in factories.

Scientific

One of the most extreme democratic reforms in the Progressive Era was the popular election of US _____________, which was established by a constitutional amendment ratified in 1913.

Senators

In one of the best showings from a radical third party in several decades, Eugene V. Debs took no less than 421,000 votes for the _________ Party.

Socialist

Which of the following describes the main division between the Republican and Democratic Party platforms in the Election of 1908?

The Democrats wanted a lower tariff

Which of the following terms refers to the period between 1897 and 1903, when many big businesses came together either formerly or informally?

The First Great Merger Wave

Muckrakers were the most influential Progressive voices in which of the following industries?

The Food and Drug Industries

Which of the following gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to set maximum freight rates, a reform long wished for among western farmers?

The Hepburn Act of 1906

Upton Sinclair's ______ __________, published in 1906, was originally intended to promote socialism, but instead inspired reform in the meatpacking industry.

The Jungle

Which of the following events inspired new city and state laws regulating working conditions in factories?

The Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1911

Historians have called which of the following the first "modern President?"

Theodore Roosevelt

In 1901, an anarchist named Leon Czolgosz assassinated President ______________________ at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.

William McKinley

Middle and upper class Americans in the 1890s became concerned with the rising influence of ____________, a political philosophy that advocated for government ownership of many businesses and greater social justice for the working class.

socialism


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