SSUSH13 Mini Assessment

During the Progressive Era, Jane Addams responded to urban conditions by working to establish

• Settlement houses that provided assistance to the poor
• Newspapers that helped to inform Americans about slum conditions
• Laws that restricted certain immigrant groups
• Free public schools located in inner-city neighborhoods

In Plessy v. Ferguson(1896), the Supreme Court ruled that:

• States may not secede from the Union 
• Racial segregation was constitutional
• Slaves are property and may not be taken from their owners
• All western territories should be open to slavery 

Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell could both be described as:

•  Nativists 
• Muckrakers
• Yellow Journalists
• Imperialists

The Progressive Era was a period from approximately 1900-1918 and was marked by a drive for reforms.  What two amendments listed below resulted from the reform era?

• 16^th –allowing a federal income tax and the 17^th –providing for the direct election of Senators
• 21^st –repealing Prohibition and the 24^th –eliminating poll taxes
• 10^th –limiting the power of government and 12^th –modifying presidential elections
• 21^st –repealing the Prohibition and the 22^nd –creating presidential limitations

The initiative, the referendum, and the recall were adopted by several states during the Progressive Era as ways to:  

• Limit immigration
• Promote the formation of trusts
• Restrict the use of presidential vetoes
• Make government more democratic

“The Jungle” in 1906, the book that horrified readers as they read about the US meat packing industry, was written by:

• Ida Tarbell
• Upton Sinclair
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Samuel Gompers 

Common throughout the South, these laws required segregation:

• Jim Crow Laws
• Ex Post Facto Laws
•  Criminal Laws
• Literacy Test 

Along with 9 other whites leaders, this Civil Rights Leader was instrumental in creating the NAACP:

• George Washington Carver
• Lewis Lattimer 
• W.E.B. BuBois
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

A Muckraker who wrote a series of articles for McClure’s Magazine that exposed the ruthless and abuses of Standard Oil to create its monopoly of the oil industry:

• Upton Sinclair
• Ida Tarbell
• Jane Addams
• W.E.B. DuBois 

During this time a major concern was the use of public lands and the environment. President Theodore Roosevelt set aside millions of acres of public lands to build Yosemite and Yellowstone National Parks.

• Progressive Era
• Conservation Movement
• Temperance Movement
• Environment Movement