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What was the goal of the city manager form of government?

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The city council hired a qualified city manager who served as the administrator of the city governments

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What measures further directed democracy?

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Referendum, Recall, Direct Primaries, and Secret Ballot

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What is the popular term for breaking up monopolies?

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Trustbusting

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Why did the progressives support Prohibiton?

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Progressives naturally concluded that eliminating liquor would reduce crime and poverty

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What term referred to progressive writers who exposed abuse and corruption?

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Muckrakers

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What theme did Theodore Roosevelt adopt during his first campaign?

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Square Deal

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What was the subject of “The Jungle”?

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The filthy conditions of the Chicago’s meat planking plants

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What was most significant about the coal miners’ strike in 1902?

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This act was the first instance in which federal government interfered in a labor dispute/businesses

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What term was applied to laws in the South that segregated the races?

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Jim Crow Laws

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List the causes that Theodore Roosevelt crusaded for.

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  1. Progressivism
  2. Muckrakers
  3. Trustbusting
  4. Panama Canal
  5. National Parks
  6. Gradual Philippine Independence
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Why were American leaders afraid to grant the Philippine inference too quickly?

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They were afraid they might fall prey to another power such as Japan

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What phrase is most closely associated with the Roosevelt Corollary?

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Monroe Doctrine

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Which American action was least popular in Japan?

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Treaty of Canon

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What popular reform took place during Taft’s administration?

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Joseph Canon

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What action resulted in a final split between Taft and Roosevelt?

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Antitrust proceedings

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What progressive ran a platform called “ New Nationalism” in 1912?

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Theodore Roosevelt

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Why did Congress pass it’s first income tax in 1913?

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Income tax would provide the government with funds to initiative reforms and provide the expanded social services. The more money you made the higher the taxes

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What reform measure has been called the “ Magna Carta” of labor?

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Clayton anti-trust act

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Who perfected the assembly line method of production?

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Ford

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What was the most significant agricultural advance during the Progressive Era?

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Tractor

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True or False: “Gas and water socialism” favored government ownership of nearly all business.

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False; they supported limited government ownership

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True or False: Women’s suffrage was an issue long before the progressives began to crusade for it.

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True

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True or False: The Pure Food and Drug Act proved to be a wasteful, ineffective form of government intervention.

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False; they unquestionable aided the public

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True or False: by requiring literacy tests, Southern States deprived many blacks of their right to vote.

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True

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True or False: Taft initiated more antitrust suits and set aside more public lands that Roosevelt.

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True

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True or False: the first income tax was an unfair burden to the poor

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True

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True or False: the era from 1898 to 1914 was a boom time for American agricultural.

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True

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True or False: the progressive movement opposed the growth of the federal government.

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False; they wanted everything to advance