Progressive Era Notes

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​Progressive Era Notes Part 2

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Multiple Choice

The term muckraker was used in the early 1900s to describe writers who

• supported limits on government regulation
• wanted the United States to ban all immigration
• exposed abuses in American society
• promoted racial integration efforts

Multiple Choice

During the early 20th century, W. E. B. Du Bois was best known as a leader in the

• creation of technical schools for African Americans
• formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• development of the “Back to Africa” movement
• effort to modernize farming in the South

Multiple Choice

Which statement best summarizes the perspective of President Theodore Roosevelt concerning natural resources?

• Decisions about conservation are best left to the states.
• Corporations can be trusted to use natural resources wisely.
• The federal government must protect the nation’s lands from exploitation.
• The free market should set the value of the nation’s natural resources.

Multiple Choice

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

• creating the Federal Reserve System
• giving voters the power of referendum and recall
• implementing a graduated income tax
• establishing the Federal Trade Commission

Multiple Choice

Primaries, the secret ballot, and the use of referendum and recall were efforts made during the Progressive Era to

• preserve the power of political machines
• provide equal political rights for Native American Indians
• protect States rights against federal power
• increase citizen participation in government

Multiple Choice

A common goal of Upton Sinclair,Jane Addams, and Ida B. Wells was...

• encourage government officials to decrease the regulation of business
• publicize the achievements of the captains of industry
• create a demand for new political parties to replace the two major parties
• increase public awareness of social, political, and economic problems

Open Ended

Write down Notes on Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell, what did each do or uncover, because I've seen these two on the STAAR EOC test.

Multiple Choice

People who were trying to get the 19th Amendment passed were supporting what?

• Right to vote for 18 year olds

• Right to vote for African Americans

• Right to vote for women

• Right to vote for those in prison

Multiple Choice

What was Jacob Riis reveal to the public through his book, How The Other Half Lives?

• living conditions of the tenement buildings in New York

• working conditions of a textile mill

• food production of a meatpacking plant

• medical care of soldiers in WWI

Multiple Choice

What do we call it when people walk out of their job and refuse to work?

• Boycott

• Strike

• Strikebreakers

• Walk out

Multiple Choice

This time period focused on social and political reforms in the United States in the early 1900s:

• Civil War Era

• Industrialization Era

• Progressive Era

• Reconstruction Era