Progressive Era Review

What was the major goal of Jane Addams' settlement houses?

• Work with Andrew Carnegie to distribute money.

• Convert all immigrants to Christianity

• Teach immigrants American values and educate them for jobs

• Create a loyal group of new workers to help build the cities.

Match the following terms

• People who viewed immigrants as bad.

• Social Darwinism

• US women fighting for voting rights

• Suffragists

• Journalists who revealed problems

• Nativists

• Laws making segregation legal

• Jim Crow

• Survival of fittest used with humans

• Muckrakers

Booker T. Washington believed that the African-American community should focus on what goals first?

• Economic Goals

• Legal goals

• Political goals

• Social goals

What were nativists most worried about happening?

• American ethnic purity would be ruined by immigration.

• American religious ideas would be ruined by immigration.

• American political power would be taken by immigrants.

• American jobs would be filled by immigrants.

What idea supported that the poor were not hard enough working to become rich?

• Jim Crow

• Nativist

• NAACP

• Social Darwinism

What was one of the major problems caused by rapid urbanization?

• Government did not create enough voting locations

• Poor fire safety codes

• Movement of indigenous tribes to reservations

• Other countries wanted America to stop growing

​ (a)   tried to use the ​ (b)   to solve problems by creating ​ (c)   , trust busting, and protect the environment by creating ​ (d)   .

• Pure Food and Drug Act
• federal
• national parks
• Teddy Roosevelt

Who wrote The Jungle bringing the issue of poor food regulation to light?

• Jane Addams

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclar

• Booker T. Washington

Before the Progressive era the government took a hands off approach to the economy also called...

• Assembly Line

• Monopoly

• Laissez-faire

• Capitalism

​ (a)   in the Gilded Era created massive ​ (b)   but the lack of ​ (c)   supports also created massive ​ (d)   .

• Urbanization
• opportunities
• government
• inequality