GOVT 201 Progressivism Quiz | regent-university

GOVT 201 Progressivism Quiz | regent-university

Question 1

Which of the following does Spalding regard as having perhaps established - or having attempted to establish - a new republic that is fundamentally different from the American Founding?

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Abraham Lincoln's leadership during the Civil War

        Franklin Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement

George W. Bush and the 9/11 Attacks

None of the above

Question 2

Progressives believed, in contrast to the American founders, that there were no fixed truths.

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True

False

Question 3

While it is clear that Spalding did not like the progressives, he made it equally clear that there was no conceivable relationship between American progressives and socialism.

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True


False

Question 4

Most progressive thinkers and statesmen, as their label implies, believed in progress,

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in the same in which the American founders believed in progress.

       to such an extent that many of them could accurately be described as historicists or historical relativists.

unlike the American founders, who rejected the idea of progress entirely.

None of the above

Question 5

Which of the following appears to have been most important to Franklin Roosevelt, as evidenced in his 1944 State of the Union Address?

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the U.S. Constitution

freedom of religion

material security

none of the above

Question 6

Franklin Roosevelt was accused of disliking and disregarding the U.S. Constitution's system of checks and balances.

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True

False

Question 7

One of the most influential progressive statesmen of the 20th century was Lyndon Johnson, who wanted to bring about a:


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Square Deal.

New Deal.

       Great Society.

Single-Payer Health Insurance Program.

Question 8

Which of the following were progressives?

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Woodrow Wilson

Herbert Croly

John Dewey


all of the above

Question 9

"Living Constitutionalism" is a feature of progressive political thought with which Matthew Spalding disagrees.

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True

False

Question 10

Bernie Sanders claims to be standing for the same kinds of principles and policies that ____________________ defended.

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Ronald Reagan

Calvin Coolidge

Ron Paul

Franklin Roosevelt

 

 

 

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