Struggle for Reform Test Prep

Use the graphic organizer to answer the question. Which statement correctly completes the graphic organizer? Cause: Many people worked in factories. Effect: [Blank]

• abandoned farms and ranches

• prices for most products dropped

• urbanization and housing shortages

• housing was knocked down to build factories

The rights that all people should have under the United States Constitution are called ______.

• equal rights
• free rights
• civil rights
• voting rights

Which statement correctly completes the graphic organizer?

• founded a school for African American girls in Florida

• founded an organization that defended civil rights in court

• founded the Chicago Defender which encouraged the Great Migration

• founded Tuskegee Institute and asked George Washington Carver to teach there

Which piece of evidence explains why Booker T. Washington was a particularly powerful figure in terms of inspiring hope among African Americans?

• He had been enslaved as a child and grew up in poverty during Reconstruction.

• Washington believed that African Americans needed education before anything else.

• He dedicated his life to creating educational opportunities for African Americans.

• Born in Massachusetts in 1868, he graduated from Fisk University, an African American college in Tennessee.

Read the excerpt, or short piece taken from a text.

What is the significance of the quote?

• The southern states had the Jim Crowe laws. They made it illegal to segregate.

• The southern states had the Jim Crowe laws. They enforced slavery.

• The southern states had the Jim Crowe laws. These laws only allow African Americans to go to school.

• The southern states had the Jim Crowe laws. These laws allowed for segregation, or races to be separated, but it required the races to be treated fairly.

Read the excerpt, or short piece taken from a text.

Why would this portion of Nat Love's memoir be interesting for readers?

• This is not the answer.

• Nat Love was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he moved west and made a great life great life for himself. His story is one of hope and determination.

• Nat Love was a slave owner who treated his slaves very poorly.

• Nat Love was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he found himself still stuck in the life of slavery. His story is one of hardship.

Explain one way in which the changing roles for women in the early 1900's had an impact, or effect, or women today?

*Select all that apply.

• The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. This opened the door to women being involved in politics.

• What happened in the early 1900's did not have an impact on women today.

• The roles for women continued to be as a wife, mother, cook, and teacher. These are still available jobs for women today.

• The acceptance of women participating in the workforce and holding positions of power, led to better career opportunities for women today.