HUSH M's Unit Test

“Muckrakers” were considered Progressive because they:

Before the Vietnam War distracted his administration in the mid-1960s, president Lyndon Johnson built a set of policies aimed at:

Which of the following best summarizes and defines the Progressives’ approach to business and capitalism?

Which of the following best summarizes the significant, recurring theme of Horatio Alger’s novels?

Look around NCP and you’ll see many students whose families come, originally, from Pakistan, S. Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, and India. Which of the following stages of US Immigration history mot likely explains their families’ access to the US?

His conservative focus on local control and small-scale recovery projects made him seem ill-equipped and unequal to the massive challenges presented by the early years of the Great Depression:

Which of the following statements would most likely have been uttered by any socialist?

The PATCO [Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association] story was significant because it:

The best-known, most infamous, and most influential industrial accident of the early 20th century had to be the:

What did the term “brain trust” signify?

The Sherman Antitrust Act, was passed in order to:

Chuckles believes that: we’re divided into social classes, which are locked in struggle against each other, and have very little in common; workers are the ones who add the value to manufactured products, while capitalists just take away the profit; and that the government just serves the interests of the capitalists. Chuckles SURE SOUNDS like a/an:

This famous book explored and exposed the environmental impact of chemicals, manufacturing, and pollution, and signaled the eventual rise of a modern environmental movement in the later 1960s:

Which concept does the following statement best reflect? “It’s fine that Bill Gates has so much durn money: it was he who figured out how to create, market, and adapt new software, dang it! He’s OK by me, as long as he gives a good chunk of his fortune to worthy causes, such as education projects, which he does.”

What’s the term for the idea that the most successful industrialists had succeeded simply because their intelligence, strength, fortitude, innovative spirits, creativity, sharp claws - or whatever- had made them the fittest and best suited to succeed in their world?

What was Lyndon Johnson’s slogan for his police of fighting poverty and other social problems through large, well-funded, federal programs such as Head Start?

Which of the following best summarizes how the American social class structure had changed in the postwar decades, as a combined result of New Deal policies, postwar affluence, America’s superpower status, and other factors?

As a direct result of the National Labor Relations [Wagner] Act in 1935,

The murals we studied in class were significant because they were common themes for projects sponsored by the WPA [Works Progress Administration] and similar agencies. Which of the following best describes the content and focus of the murals we looked at?

Which of the following industries played the most central role, for various reasons, in America’s “boom” economy during the postwar era?

If you scooped up a giant handful of immigrants from Ellis Island in 1905 [the East Coast intake station for immigrants], which of the following would most likely and most commonly be counted among their nations of origin?

The decades just before and after the turn of the 29th century are most commonly known as:

It’s 1902 and Simon Socialist is elected mayor of Seattle. The business community and city council are outrages, so they get the newspapers to attack and discredit him. Through articles and editorials, they accuse Simon of being a bomb-throwing radical, who will bring bloody revolution to Seattle; furthermore, they question his ethnic background, indicating that his Italian, Russian , German, and Polish roots make him an untrustworthy, un-American, god-hating, beard-wearing, garlic-eating, funny-looking, violent, communistic, revolutionary alien. These chaps, it seems, are ________ old Simon.

It uprooted thousands of farm families from Midwestern and Great Plains states, in particular, sending many of them to California in search of a better life:

Which of the following best defines the one major aim of the Populist Movement?

This most Progressive of presidents supported pure food, anti-trust, and conservation laws; belonged to the Republican Party for much of his career; pursued an aggressively imperialist foreign policy; wore funny little round glasses; and became the namesake for a kind of stuffed, toy bear, as well as a major street in Chicago; and, shared a last name with another famous president. This president's name was, in fact:

This was a pejorative [negative[ nickname for the most successful of industrialists, many of whom were known to control big chunks of their industries, and bear an unfortunate resemblance to the Monopoly guy: