US 3 Progressive Era Review

Based on this map, one can infer that women in the early 20th Century

• were not allowed to vote in the Midwest.

• generally could not vote in states along the eastern seaboard.

• had full voting rights in the Southeastern states.

• did not have the benefit of suffrage in the western states.

The suffragettes in the photograph shown are exercising their rights found in what amendment?

• 1st

• 5th

• 10th

• 19th

Late 19th-century technological advances in farm production meant that less farm laborers were needed. Many of the farmers who lost their jobs were African Americans. Which statement describes what happened to the displaced farmers?

• African Americans were easily able to find jobs in the North.

• Many went on to establish their own farms and provide competition.

• Many of them became sharecroppers on former farms where they worked.

• Many African Americans moved to the north and west to cities such as Chicago and Detroit.

This photograph by Jacob Riis (1889) reflects the conditions that would have been found in

• 
  the West.

• 
  the rural South.

• 
  industrial areas.

• Native American Reservations.

A "muckraker" MOST likely would have been

• one who supported a ban on alcohol.

• a supporter of President Nixon during Watergate.

• against abuses of industrial workers in the early 1900s.

• a supporter of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs.

This sign is associated with which of these times in U.S. History?

• Jim Crow Era

• The Cold War

• The Roaring '20s

• Women's Rights Era

• Grandfather Clause

• Poll Tax

• Literacy Test

• White Primary

What do these topics all have in common?

• citizenship

• 
  Jim Crow Laws

• disenfranchisement

• equal rights before the law

What was the historical significance of the Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• The case eliminated the power of suffrage in states in the area of civil rights.

• The case abolished the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

• 
  The case provided for voting rights for all Americans.

• 
  The case provided for a precedent and legal basis for segregation.

W.E.B. DuBois stated about the Niagara Movement's manifesto that, "We want full manhood suffrage and we want it now! We are men! We want to be treated as men. And we shall win!"

What did DuBois mean when he said, "We want full manhood suffrage"?

• He wanted all black men to be free.

• He wanted the fair treatment of all men so that all men could be winners.

• 
  He wanted all black men to be treated equal in all ways as white men, even at the ballot box.

• He wanted male suffrage to be recognized just as the women were fighting for the right to vote.

Members of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) MOST LIKELY intimidated Southern voters in order to

• 
  achieve the Klan's political ideals.

• 
  recruit new Klan members.

• continue the Civil War.

• drive freedmen from the South.