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Question 1

The Uprising of the 20,000 illustrated the collective power of:
 
  A) working class miners.
  B) working class women and middle-class reformers and suffragists.
  C) the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League.
  D) residents of company towns.

Question 2

New immigrants from 19001914 were MOST likely to be employed in:
 
  A) low-paid backbreaking work in industry.
  B) medicine and the professions.
  C) commercial agriculture.
  D) railroads and mining.

Question 3

Which of the following would be the MOST LIKELY new immigrant to enter 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

Question 4

The most important trend in public education during the Progressive era was:
 
  A) making college attendance almost universal.
  B) expansion and bureaucratization of school systems.
  C) a strict concentration on basic grammar school skills.
  D) respecting the cultural diversity of students.

Question 5

Progressive reformers believed the primary purpose of public education was to:
 
  A) assimilate new immigrants.
  B) create an aristocracy of the able.
  C) prepare immigrant children for college.
  D) allow the poor and the rich to mingle in a democratic manner.



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Answer 1

Answer: B

Answer 2

Answer: A

Answer 3

Answer: D

Answer 4

Answer: B

Answer 5

Answer: A




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