Cite what you think are the three key accomplishments of progressive reform in the cities and the three key accomplishments of progressive reform in the states. Justify your choices
What will be an ideal response?
Consider:
Cities: secret ballot, nonpartisan elections, commission and city manager forms of government, expanded social services, public ownership of water and gas utilities and transportation.
States: initiative, referendum, recall, direct primary, secret ballot, Seventeenth Amendment, women's suffrage, railroad regulation, workmen's compensation, women and child labor laws, increased funding for education, prohibition.
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A) petroleum production. B) iron manufacturing. C) flour and other grain milling. D) precision tool manufacturing.
When banks confiscated the property of farmers who defaulted on loans, farmers influenced the sale of this property by
A) intimidating potential buyers by hanging nooses on barn doors. B) negotiating directly with bankers to lease back their property. C) damaging or even destroying the property before it was seized by the bank. D) conspiring to drive up the price of the property. E) buying each other's property for a penny at auction and then creating co-ops.
Jefferson asserted landlessness threatened democracy as much as illiteracy because
a. poorer people would not have the means to travel the long distances to the polls to vote. b. he feared that those without property could become political pawns of those who owned land. c. he feared an uprising of the landless, leading to mobocracy. d. only people with land had the means to obtain the education needed to be good citizens. e. None of these choices are correct.
The Council of Trent's most important reforms concerned ________
A. religious tolerance B. discipline within the church C. transubstantiation D. the power structure of the church