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20. What did Ida M. Tarbell's investigations reveal?
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violations in the meatpacking industry

corruption in city governments

brutal working conditions in mines and on railroads

John D. Rockefeller's corrupt practices at Standard Oil


21. Which midwestern governor served as a progressive model for other governors by implementing the "Wisconsin Way?"
(Points : 3)
Albert G. Porter

Robert LaFollette

Tommy Thompson

Julius Heill


22. Which was not a Progressive movement reform?
(Points : 3)
direct election of U.S. senators

measures for recall elections

hiring professional city managers

creating conservation zones within cities


23. Which proposal would Theodore Roosevelt and his "New Nationalism" oppose?
(Points : 3)
inheritance and income taxes

conservation and national parks

less restriction on corporations

workers' compensation laws


24. Which president advocated a "New Freedom" agenda that included a graduated income tax?
(Points : 3)
Woodrow Wilson

William McKinley

Theodore Roosevelt

William Howard Taft


25. What was Theodore Roosevelt's political party affiliation?
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Free Soil

Democrat

Republican and Progressive

Progressive and Whig


26. What agricultural system trapped many southern blacks in a cycle of debt and poverty despite their hard work?
(Points : 3)
homesteading

farm alliances

sharecropping

crop lien system


27. Which was not something that promoted segregation and limited the rights of blacks?
(Points : 3)
Jim Crow laws

poll taxes

literacy tests

crop liens


28. What was significant about the 1896 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?
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It outlawed segregation since facilities for blacks were not really equal if separate.

It determined that blacks could vote as long as they had registered in advance.

It approved segregation as long as blacks had "separate but equal" facilities.

It determined that a majority vote could exclude blacks from exercising their civil rights.


29. Which African American activist seemed to condone segregation but strongly believed in schooling for blacks and founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute?
(Points : 3)
Booker T. Washington

Dred Scott

Frederick Douglass

George Washington Carver


30. Who was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard?
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Harriet Tubman

W.E.B. Du Bois

Augustus Hawkins

Hiram Rhodes Revels


31. What did Marcus Garvey advocate for blacks?
(Points : 3)
improvement of separate but equal facilities for both blacks and whites

education for blacks at major universities

agreement that blacks should accept an inferior social position

black-owned businesses and separation from whites


32. Who was not a leader in the women's suffrage movement?
(Points : 3)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Susan B. Anthony

Julia Ward Howe

Helen Kendrick Johnson


33. Who employed a flexible state-by-state strategy to promote women's suffrage?
(Points : 3)
Carrie Chapman Catt

Alice Paul

Harriet Stanton Blatch

Miriam Florence Leslie


34. Which amendment gives women the right to vote?
(Points : 3)
17th

18th

19th

20th

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