EOC Spot Check Progressive Era Overview

These movements sought mostly different objectives in U.S. History. Choose the statements that describe either the Populist or the Progressive movement.

Groups:

(a) Populists

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(b) Progressives

• Early 20th Century

• Farmers Alliance

• Late 19th Century

• Rural Farmers

• Urban Industrial

• Uptan Sinclair

• Free Silver Movement

• Muckrakers

Voters submitting petitions for the recall of Seattle mayor Hiram Gill, December 1910.
Progressive-era reformers advocated the use of initiatives, referendums, and recall votes because they believed

• more Americans needed to be directly involved in the political process.

• small farmers and small businessmen were becoming too powerful.

• the spread of communism was threatening America's political and religious institutions.

• the "political machines" in rural America were dominating the legislative process.

The Supreme Court decision in Standard Oil Co. of NJ v U.S (1911) would have had the biggest impact on which form of business organization?

• companies run as monopolies

• providers of natural resources

• businesses who hired union workers

• businesses who fired workers belonging to unions

• 1862: born into slavery

• 1880s: teacher and writer in Memphis, Tennessee

• 1895: wrote The Red Record about lynchings in the South

• 1909: one of the founders of the NAACP
  
  Who is being described?

• Ida B. Wells

• W.E.B. DuBois

• Madam C.J. Walker

• Octavia E. Butler

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

• the West.

• the rural South.

• industrial areas.

• Indian Reservations.