Populism and Muckraker Review

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William Jennings Bryan's famous Cross of Gold speech is about...

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A policy of bimetalism to help farmers with raising crop prices.

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Railroads' high fees for shipping goods to market would eventually lead to....

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Farmers organizing the Grange Movement and the Populist party

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President Theodore Roosevelt was called a trustbuster because he –

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supported legal action against business monopolies

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Both the Sherman Antitrust Act and the Clayton Antitrust Act –

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attempted to correct abusive business practices

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The Federal Reserve System was created to –

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control the money supply

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The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe –

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investigative journalists who exposed societal problems

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Which statement best summarizes the perspective of President Theodore Roosevelt concerning natural resources? Options: Decisions about conservation are best left to the states. The federal government must protect the nation’s lands from exploitation. Corporations can be trusted to use natural resources wisely. The free market should set the value of the nation’s natural resources.

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The federal government must protect the nation’s lands from exploitation.

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Progressive Era reformers tried to reduce the gap in wealth between the rich and the poor by

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implementing a graduated income tax

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The creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era resulted in —

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the expansion of citizens’ direct participation in the democratic process

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The Populist and the Progressive movements were similar in their approaches to reform in that both –

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opposed the strict laissez-faire attitudes of the federal government