Progressivism

What were Muckrakers?

• Politicians who who exposed social & government problems

• Journalists who exposed social & government problems

• Suffragistswho exposed social & government problems

• Businesses who exposed social & government problems

Which of the following did not keep African Americans in the South from voting

• literacy tests

• general intimidation

• poll tax

• separate but equal doctrine

He said to improve themselves, African Americans should learn trades and remain patient?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

Which amendment to the Constitution guarantees full voting rights for women?

• 1st Amendment

• 13th Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 19th Amendment

In what year did the amendment pass where women got the right to vote?

• 1920

• 1900

• 1961

• 2000

What best describes the Jim Crow Laws?

• They provided better opportunities for Americans

• Discrimination laws that focused on African Americans

• African American gaining rights in the South

• They provided better opportunities for women

The Supreme Court decision made in the Plessy vs. Ferguson case said that

• the idea that separate but equal was constitutional

• Jim Crow laws were illegal in all states

• All schools had to be desegregated

A law introduced by the voters

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

In what ways did women fight for the right to vote in the United States?

• State by state, getting individuals states to approve laws to allow them to vote

• Filing lawsuits in Federal Court and state courts

• Pushing Federal legislation in Washington D.C. to pass an amendment

• All of the above

The power to remove elected officials before their team is up is known as:

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall