High schools in the late nineteenth century __________. A) had fewer students than before due to industrial jobs B) concentrated on serving the middle class C) were discouraged by the NEA from offering a classical education including Latin and Greek D) concentrated on vocational training ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
What term did economist and social critic Thorstein Veblen use to describe the new style created by the rich? A) American virtue B) stoic reserve C) conspicuous consumption D) religious fervor ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
Supporters of the new People’s Party founded in 1890 called themselves __________. A) Populists B) Egalitarians C) Partisans D) Socialists ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
The 1898 massacre in Wilmington, North Carolina, was a white response to fears that African Americans would ally with the __________. A) Republican Party B) Populists C) AFL D) social gospel movement ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
As with Hawai’i and Cuba, American involvement in the Philippines was most beneficial to __________. A) labor unions B) African Americans C) sugar planters D) poor people on these islands ANSWER Answer: C
Date: September 9th, 2020
In general, progressives were __________. A) optimistic about citizens being able to improve social and economic conditions B) revolutionaries pressing for radical reforms C) applying the ideas of social Darwinism as reforms D) antipolitical, preferring to emphasize improvement of individual character ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
Which of these people would most likely have been among the “new” immigrants entering the United States in 1905? A) an Australian farmer B) a German scientist C) a young unskilled Asian female D) a single unskilled Italian male ANSWER Answer: D
Date: September 9th, 2020
Thomas L. Johnson was an example of a city leader-reformer who advocated __________. A) improving social welfare for city residents B) reforming immigration policy C) cleaning up slums and ghetto buildings D) the initiative, recall, and referendum ANSWER Answer: A
Date: September 9th, 2020
In your opinion, what were the most important achievements of the progressives? Why? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER Key Points: basic assumptions; goals; reaction to industrial capitalism; attitudes toward government and democracy; politics and class
Date: September 9th, 2020
In response to the outbreak of war, many prominent progressives __________. A) demanded that the United States immediately declare war on Germany B) strongly opposed Wilson’s preparedness campaign C) resigned from their seats in Congress to protest Wilson’s policy D) introduced legislation in Congress to institute a draft ANSWER Answer: B
Date: September 9th, 2020
