5th Grade Struggle for Reform

Cause- Many people worked in factories

What is the effect?

• abandoned farms and ranches

• prices for most products dropped

• urbanization and housing shortages

• housing was knocked down to build factories

What conclusion can be drawn about trusts that controlled industries in the early 1900s?

• The first progressives were the trust owners.

• When a new trust formed, working conditions improved.

• Trusts protected children against harsh working conditions.

• As trusts grew larger, less attention was paid to the worker.

When workers wanted working conditions to improve, they would

• challenge

• strike

• unionize

• break

Unions sometimes decided to __________ a company. Occasionally, this resulted in __________.

• boycott; break a strike on

• unionize; form a trust with

• child labor; widespread strikes

• boycott; improved working conditions

Problem: The government was doing more for citizens to improve daily life.

What was the solution?

• Boycotts and strikes were deemed legal.

• The government began taxing people’s income.

• Muckrakers exposed the abuses of the government.

• Government workers began to strike to improve working conditions.

The rights that all people should have under the United States Constitution are called __________.

• equal rights

• civil rights

• voting rights

• free rights

Who was Booker T. Washington?

• founder of NAACP

• founder of the Chicago Defender

• professor at Tuskegee Institute

• a respected African American leader

What did Mary McLeod Bethune found?

• a school for African American girls in Florida

• an organization that defended civil rights in court

• the Chicago Defender which encouraged the Great Migration

• Tuskegee Institute and asked George Washington Carver to teach there

Which piece of evidence explains why Booker T. Washington was a particularly powerful figure in terms of inspiring hope among African Americans?

• He had been enslaved as a child and grew up in poverty during Reconstruction.

• Washington believed that African Americans needed education before anything else.

• He dedicated his life to creating educational opportunities for African Americans.

• Born in Massachusetts in 1868, he graduated from Fisk University, an African American college in Tennessee.

As a teacher at Tuskegee Institute, __________ helped __________ across the country become more successful.

• W.E.B. DuBois; students

• Robert S. Abbott; farmers

• George Washington Carver; farmers

• George Washington Carver; leaders