Progressive Review

Jim Crow laws were laws that

• abolished racial discrimination
• encouraged racial integration
• promoted racial equality
• enforced racial segregation

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court ruled that

• Integration of races was required by law.
• Racial discrimination was legal.
• Segregation was unconstitutional.
• Separate but equal facilities for different races were constitutional.

Which effect can be traced directly to the Supreme Court’s ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• a. Southern blacks lost their voting rights for 60 years.

• b. Lynching of African Americans continued into the 1920s.

• c. Racial segregation was permitted for nearly 60 years.

• d. Race riots broke out in New York and other large cities.

Which of the following did not keep African Americans in the South from voting?

• literacy tests
• grandfather clauses
• poll taxes
• the separate-but-equal doctrine

The progressive movement regarded all of the following as worthy goals except

• protecting social welfare.

• promoting business monopolies.

• creating economic reform.

• fostering efficiency in the workplace.

Muckrakers were

• investigative journalists
• fiction writers
• conservationists

• suffragist

In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed

• the corruption in the political system
• unsanitary conditions and the harsh conditions and exploitation of workers in the meatpacking industry

• the effects of pollution on the environment
• the impact of deforestation on wildlife

The first person to use the presidency as a “bully pulpit” was

• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Theodore Roosevelt
• William Howard Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

The law that required truthful labels was the

• Food and Drug Administration Act
• Honest Labeling Act
• Pure Food and Drug Act
• Truth in Labeling Act

The primary goal of the NAACP was

• To advocate for white supremacy.
• To secure equality and eliminate race-based discrimination.
• To promote racial segregation.
• To support race-based discrimination.