Robert La Follette Was

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Multiple Choice

Robert La Follette was

• A) a progressive reformer who established policies that were labeled the "Wisconsin Idea".
• B) the Republican nominee for president in 1916.
• C) the chief justice of the Supreme Court who fought against most progressive legislation.
• D) the architect of Carnegie Hall.
• E) the founder of the new version of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1910s.

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