Question 1
Both prohibition and ending prostitution were efforts by the Progressive reformers to control:
A) state politicians who obstructed progressive reform.
B) city bosses and city machines.
C) the growing middle class.
D) big city immigrants with alien cultures.
Question 2
When reformers investigated prostitution, they were distressed to learn that many girls:
A) preferred prostitution to working in a factory.
B) were underage American farm women.
C) were from middle-class Protestant homes.
D) were married women who wanted more income.
Question 3
Many businessmen supported prohibition because:
A) a happy family life made a happy worker.
B) closing saloons would increase the productivity of the worker.
C) unruly immigrants would return to their homelands.
D) consumers would have more money to spend on consumer goods.
Question 4
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union's efforts at prohibition and other social reforms allowed women to:
A) fuse public concerns with moral guardianship.
B) seek control without the vote.
C) remove unwanted elements in society.
D) keep wives and mothers in the home.
Question 5
John R. Commons and Richard Ely both promoted:
A) state supervision of labor and the workplace.
B) racist Jim Crow laws.
C) the Settlement House movement.
D) reform of city government.
Question 6
Philosopher John Dewey argued that schools should be:
A) rigid, formal, and conservative.
B) geared to social evolution.
C) agencies of social progress and reform.
D) producers of an aristocracy of virtue.
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