Progressive Era Test Quizizz

The Progressive Era is defined as a historical era because the time period is characterized by

• shrinking of the U.S industrial economy

• growing support for overseas expansion

• shifting attitudes about civil rights for minorities

• changing ideas about the functions of U.S. government

Political change in the Progressive Era was characterized by the expansion of

• social welfare programs

• power for the executive branch

• individual rights for more Americans

• civil rights for American Indian tribes

The reform movements of the Progressive Era generally focused on

• civil rights for minority groups

• policies related to isolationism

• issues related to social injustice

• concerns about conservationism

Which of the following was one effect of the Progressive Era political reforms of initiative, referendum, and recall?

• Judicial authority expanding to include administering local elections.

• Government officials responding to the needs of voters more readily.

• Women and minorities increasing participation in the political process.

• Political machines gaining greater influence in local elections and politics.

How did the Seventeenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution give more political power to the individual voter?

• It allowed citizens to vote regardless of race, creed, or ethnicity.

• It freed citizens to vote without paying a poll tax or passing a literacy test.

• It established the direct election of U.S. Senators by popular vote.

• It allowed for the number of senators per state to be determined by population.

Journalist and social reformer Ida B. Wells was responsible for exposing the brutality associated with

• lynching

• gambling

• child labor

• alcohol abuse

The writings of W. E. B. DuBois promoted the idea that

• African Americans deserved racial equality immediately

• African Americans needed to organize as a political party

• African Americans must leave the country to obtain rights

• African Americans should seek to gradually gain civil rights

The American public and President Roosevelt responded to the information in the book by Upton Sinclair "The Jungle" -

• advocating for reforms to working conditions

• demanding better school nutrition programs

• calling for the regulation of the food industry

• working for the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment

The activism of woman suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony impacted American government because it led to the passage of the

• Seventeenth Amendment

• Eighteenth Amendment

• Nineteenth Amendment

• Twentieth Amendment

Jane Addams is best remembered for

• building settlement houses

• promoting rights for workers

• founding the first college for women

• expanding the temperance movement