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26. During the progressive era, political "interest groups"

A. rose to replace the declining power centers of the parties.

19. Prior to the adoption of the secret ballot, voter ballots were printed and distributed by

A. the political parties.

During the progressive era, opponents of political reform generally included many members of all of the following EXCEPT

A. the urban middle class.

51. In the election of 1908, William Howard Taft

A. was hand-picked by Theodore Roosevelt to succeed him.

8. Thorstein Veblen argued that

B. modern societies should rely on a handful of experts to govern the economy.

13. Regarding divorce in the United States during the progressive era, by 1916

B. more than ten percent of all marriages ended in divorce.

15. During the progressive era, clubs for African American women

B. often took anti-lynching and anti-segregation positions.

24. The recall and the direct primary were progressive-era political reforms designed to weaken

B. political parties.

50. Theodore Roosevelt did not run for another term as president in 1908 because

C. in 1904 he had promised not to run again.

Many progressives, such as Lincoln Steffens, believed that the first target of reform should be

C. municipal governments.

10. Regarding women and the professions during the Progressive Era,

C. social work was generally thought to be an appropriate career for women.

6. At the turn of the twentieth century, the leaders of the settlement house movement

E. directed their attention to improving urban living conditions.

3. The term "muckrakers" referred to

E. journalists.

17. During the progressive era, significant voting rights for women were first won in

E. the Far West.

25. As governor of Wisconsin, the progressive reformer Robert La Follette helped win approval for

E. the direct primary, initiative, and referendum.

A distinctive characteristic of women in professional work during the progressive era was that

E. women were concentrated in the "helping" professions.

While progressivism has many meanings, it tended in this period to be based on the central assumption that

A. American society was capable of improvement.

In 1910, in Osawatomie, Kansas, Theodore Roosevelt announced a set of political principles that called for

A. greater activism by the federal government.

14. During the progressive era, the women's club movement

A. had a national organization to coordinate club activities.

9. Regarding organizing the professions during the Progressive Era,

A. most professions attempted to expand the ranks of Americans in their fields.

27. During the progressive era, important vehicles for social reform included

B. New York's Tammany Hall.

53. In 1909, a controversy involving Richard Ballinger and Gifford Pinchot saw

B. President William H. Taft fire Pinchot for insubordination.

55. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was reluctant to become a candidate for president because

B. Robert La Follette had been working to secure the nomination for himself.

30. For western states, the most important target of reform energies was

B. the federal government, because it exerted great power in the western states.

5. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the "Social Gospel" was

C. chiefly concerned with redeeming the nation's cities.

16. During the Progressive Era, some supporters of woman suffrage argued that female voters

C. deserved the vote because of their unique traits as women.

29. All of the following were progressive reformers from western states EXCEPT

D. Alfred E. Smith.

2. At the turn of the twentieth century, progressive activists

D. believed in the importance of social cohesion.

The settlement house movement of the early twentieth century helped spawn the profession of

D. social work.

28. In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,

D. strict regulations were imposed on factory owners.

4. In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on

D. the Standard Oil trust.

12. During the progressive era, the "new woman" was a product of

E. All these answers are correct.

18. In the years prior to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment,

E. All these answers are correct.

52. As president, William Howard Taft

E. None of these answers is correct.

31. During the progressive era, W. E. B. Du Bois asserted all of the following EXCEPT that

seeking legal challenges to civil injustice through white-dominated courts was a pointless exercise