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Booker T. Washington believed that race relations would improve:

gradually if blacks remained patient.

The Federal Trade Commission:

regulated business practices that were subject to court review.

The main goal of the muckrakers was to:

raise the public's awareness of social problems.

Proponents of the Social Gospel believed which of the following ideas?

promoting the role of Christianity in addressing social problems

Upton Sinclair's The Jungle focused on the problems of:

meatpacking plants.

Woodrow Wilson sought to reform banking primarily through the:

Federal Reserve Act.

Frederick Taylor's scientific management emphasized all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

providing more autonomy for the factory laborer.

This Republican incumbent was defeated in 1912 when his party split into progressive and traditional factions.

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft's support for the Sixteenth Amendment opened a period when:

the federal government expanded its activities and responsibilities.

A peak of anti-union violence occurred when:

John D. Rockefeller ordered that striking miners, and their families, be shot and burned.

Cartoonists who opposed Standard Oil represented it as:

an octopus.

W.E.B. Du Bois emphasized all of the following ideas EXCEPT:

Booker T. Washington's defiance should be replaced with passive acceptance.

Regarding how humans should deal with the natural world, Theodore Roosevelt can best be classified a/an:

conservationist.

Public outrage against unsafe working conditions peaked when:

young female workers died in the Triangle Shirtwaist Company fire.

In his 1895 "Atlanta Exposition Address," Booker T. Washington asserted each of the following except:

black Americans must eventually be given full social and legal equality.

The "progressive movement" was driven by:

a general belief that moderate reforms were needed to help end social disorder.

American workers were drawn to the American Federation of Labor's:

emphasis on collective bargaining.

Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom rejected what he analyzed as Theodore Roosevelt's:

regulated monopoly.

Her researched study of Standard Oil alerted the public to the corporation's vast power, and explained the ruthless methods used by John D. Rockefeller in his rise to wealth.

Ida Tarbell

Most American socialists advocated for:

all of the above