Unit 2 Progressive era

Multiple Choice

Muckraker

• Making changes to address abuse or injustice

• Journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society

• right to vote

• Preventing wasteful use of a resource

• rule made and enforced by a government

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Reform

• Making changes to address abuse or injustice

• Journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society

• Right to vote

• Preventing wasteful use of a resource

• rule made and enforced by a government

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Suffrage

• Making changes to address abuse or injustice

• Journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society

• Right to vote

• Preventing wasteful use of a resource

• rule made and enforced by a government

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Conservation

• Making changes to address abuse or injustice

• Journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society

• Right to vote

• Preventing wasteful use of a resource

• rule made and enforced by a government

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Regulation

• Making changes to address abuse or injustice

• Journalist who worked to expose corruption and abuses in politics and society

• Right to vote

• Preventing wasteful use of a resource

• rule made and enforced by a government

Multiple Choice

Booker T. Washington

• Co-Founder of the NAACP and first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard university

• Founded the Tuskegee institute for vocational training

• Led anti-lynching campaigns and advocated for justice

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W.E.B. Du Bois

• Co-Founder of the NAACP and first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard university

• Founded the Tuskegee institute for vocational training

• Led anti-lynching campaigns and advocated for justice

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Ida B. Wells

• Co-Founder of the NAACP and first African American to earn a PHD from Harvard university

• Founded the Tuskegee institute for vocational training

• Led anti-lynching campaigns and advocated for justice

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What was one main goal of the Progressive Party during the early 1900s?

• Supporting the reestablishment of monopolies

• Returning to a gold only currency

• Expanding voting rights and political reforms such as direct election of senators

• Ending public education funding

Multiple Choice

The Populist Party mainly represented which group in the late 1800s?

• Railroad executives

• Farmers and laborers seeking economic reform

• Urban factory owners

• Wealthy business leaders

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Who were “muckrakers” during the Progressive Era

• Judges who supported Progressive reforms

• Journalists who exposed corruption and social problems

• Farmers who protested railroad rates

• Political leaders who wrote laws for Congress

Multiple Choice

During the Progressive Era, which reform let ordinary people write their own ideas for laws and have them voted on?

• Primary election

• Recall

• Initiative

• Referendum

Multiple Choice

Upton Sinclair

• Unfair practices of standard oil company

• Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

• Harsh living conditions in tenement housing

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Ida Tarbell

• Unfair practices of standard oil company

• Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

• Harsh living conditions in tenement housing

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Jacob Riis

• Unfair practices of standard oil company

• Unsanitary conditions in the meatpacking industry

• Harsh living conditions in tenement housing

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Which organization, founded in 1909, sought to use the court system to challenge segregation and promote civil rights for African Americans?

• Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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  Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• National Urban League

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What was the significance of the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) for African Americans during the Progressive Era

• It gave women the right to vote

• It upheld “separate but equal” segregation laws

• It outlawed all forms of racial segregation

• It banned literacy tests for voting

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Which reform during the Progressive Era helped increase political participation for women?

• The enforcement of “separate but equal” policies

• The establishment of Jim Crow laws

• Passage of the 19th Amendment

• The introduction of literacy tests for voters

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What was a key difference between the approaches of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois toward achieving civil rights?

• Washington believed in violent protest, while Du Bois promoted nonviolence

• Washington believed in federal intervention, while Du Bois supported states’ rights

• Washington promoted gradual change through education and job skills, while Du Bois demanded immediate political and social equality

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  Washington focused on women’s rights, while Du Bois worked for racial segregation

Multiple Choice

The creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era resulted in - 

• more sources of revenue for state governments

• a redistribution of the tax burden among citizens

• a system of separate schools for new immigrants

• the expansion of citizens' direct participation in the democratic process

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The issue addressed in this political cartoon was later settled by:

• the initiation of the settlement house movement

• the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment

• the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment

• the creation of the Temperance Society

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What was the immediate response to the practices mentioned in this excerpt?

• Farmers demanded government regulation of livestock sales and distribution.

• Congress passed legislation to protect consumer health and safety.

• Monopolies formed to control competition in the meat-packing industry.

• Meat Packers developed refrigerated railroad cars to ship meat nationwide.

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What was the mostly likely topic of discussion between these men?

• Limiting the power of the major railroad companies

• Reducing the influence of environmental lobbyists

• Creating alternative maritime shipping routes

• Designating additional land as national parks

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How did the concerns depicted in this cartoon affect the food industry?

• The food industry increased the cost of products in order to pay for chemical additives.

• The federal government passed antitrust legislation in order to increase competition in the food industry.

• The federal government regulated the food industry in order to protect the health of the public.

• The food industry imported more goods from Europe in order to offer customers more choices.

Multiple Choice

Which caption best replaces the question mark in this photograph?

• Abolish the Poll Tax and Literacy Test

• Lower the Voting Age for Women to Eighteen

• Demand the Direct Election of Senators

• Come in and Learn Why Women Ought to Vote

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How did the person named in this 1909 handbill work to improve the lives of African Americans?

• By organizing voter-registration drives for African Americans

• By supporting the formation of labor unions by African American Workers

• By organizing boycotts of businesses that refused service to African Americans

• By promoting vocational training for African Americans

Multiple Choice

The political activism of the group described in the excerpt contributed directly to:

• the repeal of the 18th Amendment

• the elimination of taxes

   

• the elimination of taxes

   

• the ratification of the 19th Amendment

Multiple Choice

The issue addressed by this poster is primarily associated with the:

• Great Depression

• Progressive Era

• Roaring Twenties

• Cold War

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How did the ideas presented in this address affect the early Civil Rights movement in the United States?

• By encouraging African Americans to accept Jim Crow laws

• By directly supporting Marcus Garvey's Black Star Steamship Line

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  By encouraging African Americans to achieve equality through vocational education

• By forming the basis for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

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How were these rights formally obtained?

• By granting citizenship to immigrants

• By engaging in an international conflict

• By passing antitrust legislation

• By ratifying constitutional amendments

Multiple Choice

A student learning about US History is instructed to write a paper about W.E.B Du Bois and race relations in the United States. Which of the following facts would be most relevant to the student's assignment?

• The Selma-to-Montgomery protest marches helped secure voting rights for minority citizens.

• The NAACP was organized to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens.

• The March on Washington helped rally nationwide support for the Civil Rights Movement.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed many forms of discrimination in the housing market.

Multiple Choice

These achievements illustrate Ida B. Wells's contributions as:

• an artist of the Harlem Renaissance

• a supporter of Prohibition

• an advocate of Equality

• a religious leader

Multiple Choice

Which Populist goal became U.S. policy during the Progressive Era?

• The adoption of presidential term limits

• The establishment of government ownership of railroads

• The elimination of the gold standard

• The adoption of a graduated income tax

Multiple Choice

Why did Progressive Era reformers support the goal illustrated in this 1874 political cartoon?

• They believed government taxes on the alcohol industry were too high.

• The believed the government needed to break up monopolies in the alcohol industry.

• The believed alcohol use should be limited to patriotic celebrations.

• The believed alcohol abuse was an underlying cause of society's problems.