The Progressive Era (& Social Studies Review)

Which of the following choices displays the meaning of the term 'urbanization'?

• favoring, or promoting promoting change

• wealth and resources of a country or nation

• economic or political system in which a country is controlled by private ownership

• process of making an area more city-like

Answer explanation

Did you know that New York City experienced URBANIZATION during the late 19th into the early 20th century? This made NYC more like the city it is today!

Making changes in order to improve something is considered...

• Industrialization

• Reform

• Suffrage

• Immigrant

Answer explanation

During the Progressive Era, there were many different reform movements created to repair the damage caused by the Gilded Age.

What is the point of a labor union??

• To bring workers together

• To support labor in the U.S.

• To protect worker's rights

• To unionize the confederacy

Answer explanation

Just like today, people create things to make life easier. Inventions, during that time, were much simpler and have been developed since then.

An organized association of workers formed to protect and further their rights and interests is considered a...

• Labor Union

• Trust

• Robber Baron

• Captain of Industry

Answer explanation

Labor Unions protect employees from unsafe working conditions and practices. This allows people to get paid, if injured on the job, as well as get paid a fair rate for the work they do!

Mr. Smith owns pizza joint. He needs to increase his sales by the end of the fiscal year. The demand for his pizza is extremely HIGH and his supply of flour fairly LOW. In addition, people are begging for his pizza dough. What should he do to increase his profits (make more money)?

• Raise his prices

• Lower his prices

• Keep the Prices the same

• Give away pizza dough

A business man that is a great leader and often gives back to the community.

• Captain of Industry

• Robber baron

• Labor Union

• Child labor

Amendment that gave blacks suffrage

• 13th Amendment

• 14th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

Answer explanation

Suffrage is the ability to vote during political elections. African Americans (Blacks) were given the right to vote after slavery ended and the 15th Amendment gave African Americans the right to vote during the political elections.

Capitalism is...

• the right to vote

• the capital of the United States

• the ecenomic or political system in which an industry is controlled by private owners

• the wealth and resources of a country ot nation

A person that creates a business for profit it called a(n)

• American Entrepreneur

• American Socialist

• American Republican

• American Democrat

Why did the South resist the 14th Amendment?

• Integration

• Segregation

• Equality

• Voting Rights for Blacks

Answer explanation

Segregation was a way for the confederate states to conserve (or save) the Southern states from integrating (mixing) races.