U.S. History Progressive Era Part 1 Test

What were Muckrakers?

• Politicians

• journalists

• suffragists

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

• literacy tests

• general intimidation

• poll taxes

• separate but equal doctine

He said that to improve themselves, African Americans should learn trades and remain patient.

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. DuBois

Which amendment to the constitution guarantees full voting rights for women?

• 1st

• 13th

• 2nd

• 19th

In what year did the amendment pass where women got the right to vote?

• 1920

• 1900

• 1961

• 2000

What best describes the Jim Crow Laws?

• They provided better opportunities for Americans

• Discrimination laws that focused on African Americans

• African Americans gaining rights in the South

• They provided better opportunities for women

The Supreme Court decision made in the Plessy v. Ferguson case said that:

• The idea that separate but equal was constitutional

• Jim Crow Laws were illegal in all states

• Al schools had to be desegregated

A law introduced by the voters

• referendum

• recall

• initiative

The power to remove elected officials before their term is up is known as:

• Referendum

• Initiative

• Recall

In what ways did women fight for the right to vote in the United States?

• State by State, getting individual states to approve laws to allow them to vote

• Filing lawsuits in Federal and state courts

• Pushing Federal legislation in Washington D.C. to pass an amendment

• All of the above