SSUSH13 and SSUSH14 Pre-TEst

The direct election of Senators by a state's population was a main agenda of 

• business owners, who found it difficult to influence Senators elected by state legislatures
• progressives, who wanted to reform a Senate that didn’t answer directly to citizens
• governors, who by and large sought to wrest power away from the state legislatures
• conservatives, who wanted to separate the interaction of federal and state governments

Why would a majority of poor people living in cities in the late 1890s and early 1900s be likely to support progressive leaders?

• Progressive leaders promised to get everyone a job and safe house by 1920.
• Almost all of the progressive leaders were poor, city dwellers with little education.
• Most progressives sought to resolve problems caused by industrialism and urbanization.
• Unlike politicians, progressives sought to resolve problems without using any government help.

Theodore Roosevelt affected the Conservation Movement in the United States by (a)  

• limiting conservation in order to d
• only supporting conservationists in
• proposing legislation that hindered
• enthusiastically promoting conserva

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
• Imperialist

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

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. 

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