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Choose the correct answer out of the choices listed below.

1. All of the following political groups supported reforms that led to the Progressive Era EXCEPT:

  1. Whigs
  2. Populists
  3. Socialists
  4. Mugwumps

Answer: A. Whigs

2. Progressive journalists that sought to expose corruption were known as _______(blank)

  1. Exodusters
  2. Suffragists
  3. Mugwumps
  4. Muckrakers

Answer: D. Muckrakers

3. Considered the first "progressive" president _______(blank)

  1. Jacob Riis
  2. Theodore Roosevelt
  3. Robert M. LaFollette
  4. Woodrow Wilson

Answer: B. Theodore Roosevelt

4. Which of the following was NOT a government reform adopted during the Progressive Era?

  1. Direct primary
  2. Recall
  3. Secret ballot
  4. Presidential term limits

Answer: D. Presidential term limits

5. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle exposed _______(blank)-

  1. filth in the meatpacking industry
  2. child labor in southern fields
  3. government corruption
  4. industrial accidents in steel factories

Answer: A. filth in the meatpacking industry

 

 

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