The Progressive Era

Which of the following best completes the title of this partial outline?

I. ____________________________________

1. Crime, overcrowding, and political machines in cities

2. Monopolies did not allow fair competition

3. Women and African-Americans faced discrimination

• Successes of Industrialization

• Improvements in the Progressive Era

• Failures of Reconstruction

• Problems of the Gilded Age

A goal of the Progressive movement from 1890 to 1920 was to

• correct the problems caused by industrialization during the Gilded Age

• promote laissez-faire government policies

• promote settlement of land west of the Mississippi River

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe

In the early 20th century, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly through their

• frequent acts of civil disobedience

• activities as government officials

• publication of articles and books

• control over factories

Jane Addams is best known for

• helping to create child labor laws and protections for women

• starting a settlement house (Hull House) in Chicago, which helped poor people living in slums

• leading the WCTU in its fight against alcohol abuse

• printing "What Every Mother Should Know," which advocated birth control

In 1906, the publication of Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle led Congress to

• support the national conservation movement

• pass stronger prohibition laws

• legalize strikes and boycotts by labor unions

• create the Meat Inspection Act

Who wrote The History of Standard Oil, which revealed Rockefeller's ruthless business practices and called for the break-up of large monopolies?

• Jacob Riis

• Ida Tarbell

• Carrie Nation

• Upton Sinclair

Which group was founded in 1909 under the leadership of W.E.B. Dubois in an effort to combat racial discrimination, racial violence, and segregation in the United States?

• The Black Rights Coalition (BRC)

• The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

• The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

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

One idea that both Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. DuBois supported is that

• African Americans should have increased civil rights.

• Jim Crow laws were needed to help African Americans.

• Immigration was responsible for racial segregation.

• Vocational (technical job) training was the best approach to education.

These headlines represent efforts by individuals to

• support business monopolies

• improve depressed urban areas

• solve problems of American farmers

• correct abuses of the Industrial Revolution

Which of the following was NOT a problem that African Americans faced during the Gilded Age and Progressive Eras?

• Most African Americans in the South served as slaves on large plantations.

• Lynching was common throughout the South and in many parts of the U.S.

• A large number of African Americans in the South were involved in sharecropping.

• Segregation and Jim Crow laws limiting the voting rights of African Americans.