Progressive Era

All of the following are Union reforms EXCEPT:

• End child labor

• Better working conditions

• Higher wages

• Equal pay for men and women

Urbanization is described as:

• The movement from urban to rural areas

• The use of new, more advanced machinery

• The movement from rural to urban areas

• In increase in global population

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) decided that separate facilities were legal as long as they were ___________.

• Opposite

• Similar

• Different

• Equal

The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Stopped U.S. cities from hiring Chinese workers.

• took away the U.S. citizenship of Chinese Americans.

• prevented Chinese laborers from entering the country and stripped them of their Civil Rights.

• forced Chinese children to attend segregated schools.

Unlike African American men, women in the late 1800s

• had to pay a poll tax to vote.

• were able to vote under grandfather clauses.

• did not have the legal right to vote.

• experienced no restrictions when voting.

Term used to describe a journalist who worked to show the problems in society.

• Jim Crow

• Poll tax

• Union

• Muckracker

Which reform did the Nineteenth Amendment enact?

• banned slavery

• gave African Americans the right to vote

• gave women the right to vote

• placed an income tax

Theodore Roosevelt’s plan for fair a government, that would help the middle class

• Square Deal

• Triangle Deal

• Circle Deal

What was the Progressive Movement?

• to reform laws & change society for the better

• to go backwards in time

• to make things worse

• to stop immigration to America

What was a muckraker?

• a city street sweeper

• a dirty politician

• journalist who exposed corruption to the public

• a garbage collector