Lesson #17 - The Progressives Respond (1890-1920)

Open Ended

Below are lyrics to a song that describes problems many Americans faced in the late 1800s. Read the lyrics. Then answer the questions listed:

1. What moods do the lyrics seem to evoke?

2. What problems do these songs address?

The Sweat Shop

The roaring of the wheels has filled my ears,

The clashing and the clamor shut me in,

Myself, my soul in chaos disappears,

I cannot think or feel amid the din.

Toiling and toiling and toiling, endless toil,

For whom? For what? Why should the work be done?

I do not ask or know, I only toil.

I work until the day and night are one,

I work until the day and night are one.

Open Ended

Below are lyrics to a song that describes problems many Americans faced in the late 1800s. Read the lyrics. Then answer the questions listed:

1. What moods do the lyrics seem to evoke?

2. What problems do these songs address?

Suffrage Song

Let us sing as we go, Votes for Women!

Let us sing as we go, Votes for Women!

Though the way may be hard, though the battle be long

Yet our triumph is sure, put your heart into song

Into cheering and song, Votes for Women!

For the right shall prevail over wrong!

See! The banner is bright streaming o'er us,

And the barred road lies open before us, Let the trumpet be blown,

Let our purpose be known,

Put your voice and your soul in the chorus!

Multiple Select

Select the true statements. (Select all that apply)

• Jane Addams was a social worker and reformer in New York City in the early 1900s.

• Hull House was the first settlement house in the city of Chicago.

• Early 1900s reformers focused on improving living conditions in America were called progressives.

• Reformers in the early 1900s were only interested in social reforms that would help immigrants.

Multiple Select

Select the true statements. (Select all that apply)

• The progressives were proponents of social Darwinism.

• The progressives wanted government to address society's problems.

• Most progressives were not radicals.

• The progressives did not believe in private enterprise.

• Many progressives believed that social reform and Christianity went hand in hand.

Multiple Choice

When did the state of Ohio make a compulsory school attendance law?

• 1875 or before

• 1876-1899

• 1900 or later

Multiple Choice

When did the state of California make a compulsory school attendance law?

• 1875 or before

• 1876-1899

• 1900 or later

Multiple Choice

When did the state of Texas make a compulsory school attendance law?

• 1875 or before

• 1876-1899

• 1900 or later

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is NOT true?

• Progressives wanted the government to take responsibility for getting rid of trash.

• Progressives opposed the "Americanization" of immigrant children.

• Progressives protested the treatment of children by the criminal justice system.

• Progressives pushed for laws to restrict or ban child labor.

• Progressives pushed for legislation to provide benefits to workers who were injured on the job.

Multiple Choice

Which process allows for voters to remove an elected official from office before his or her term expires?

• recall

• referendum

• initiative

• impeachment

• commision

Multiple Choice

Which process allows for a law passed by the state legislature is placed on the ballot for approval or rejection by voters

• recall

• referendum

• initiative

• impeachment

• commision

Multiple Choice

a lawmaking reform enabling citizens to propose and pass laws directly, without involving the state legislature. In this process, enough voters must first sign a petition to place a proposal on the ballot, which then becomes law if voters approve the proposal on election day.

• recall

• referendum

• initiative

• impeachment

• commision

Multiple Choice

Which of the following states did not have full voting rights for women by 1918?

• California

• Nevada

• New York

• Ohio

Multiple Choice

Which years saw the highest rate of African American lynching?

• 1882-1889

• 1890-1899

• 1900-1909

• 1910-1919

• 1920-1929

Dropdown

Progressive activism prompted many women and African Americans to fight for their rights. In the struggle for their right to vote, leading suffragists such as Elizabeth Stanton formed the ​

Select answer

, while African Americans in their fight against racist violence and segregation formed the ​

Select answer

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Match

Drag the reform action to the name of the organization most associated with that reform.

• Worked to improve tenement housing, sanitation systems, and garbage collection in cities.

• Campaigned against child labor to keep children in school.

• Led the struggle for women's suffrage.

• Worked to secure equality for African Americans.

Hull House

National Child Labor Committee

NAWSA

NAACP

• Hull House

• National Child Labor Committee

• NAWSA

• NAACP

Match

Drag each term to its correct definition

• a religious movement of the late 1800s based on the idea that social reform and Christianity go hand in hand

• a vocational college for African Americans in Alabama, founded by Booker T. Washington

• a group formed in 1909 to fight through the courts to end segregation and ensure that African American men could exercise voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment

• a group formed by leading suffragists in the late 1800s to organize the women's suffrage movement

• the first settlement house in Chicago, founded by Jane Addams

Social Gospel

Tuskegee Institute

NAACP

NAWSA

Hull House

• Social Gospel

• Tuskegee Institute

• NAACP

• NAWSA

• Hull House