Progressive Era Quiz Part I

How did Booker T. Washington work to improve the lives of African Americans?

• by organizing voter-registration drives for African Americans

• By supporting the formation of labor unions by African American workers

• By promoting vocational training for African Americans

• By organizing boycotts of business that refused service to African Americans

How did W.E.B. DuBois combat prejudice?

• He demanded the passage of women's suffrage

• He established an early civil rights group

• He advocated making political compromises with segregationists.

• He sought court orders to protect the rights of voters

One way the U.S. government responded to the problems caused by the Gilded age was by

• passing the Interstate Commerce Act

• implementing the silver standard for currency

• creating a federal jobs program for the unemployed

• establishing a new tax on capital gains

What was the main strategy that President Roosevelt's administration used to stop monopolies?

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  Establish the Federal Reserve System to regulate money supply

• Urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to decrease corporate regulations

• Use the Sherman Antitrust Act to ensure competition in industry

• Lobby Congress to loosen restrictions on foreign exports

How did the 19th Amendment expand the democratic process?

• By prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of race

• By eliminating the poll tax

• By prohibiting discrimination of voting on the basis of gender

• By lowering the voter age

Ida B. Well's achievements and contributions illustrate her as

• religious leader

• an artist of the Harlem Renaissance

• a supporter of Prohibition

• an advocate of equality

The creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era resulted in--

• a system of separate schools for new immigrants

• the expansion of citizens' direct participation in the democratic process

• a redistribution of the tax burden among citizens

• more sources of revenue for state governments