SSUSH13 - Progressive Era (nothing to do with Flo)

The initiative and referendum are considered democratic reforms because they (SSUSH13d)

• Permit citizens to have a more direct role

  in lawmaking

• Extend the right to vote to 18-year-old

  citizens

• Let all registered voters select their

  state’s presidential electors

• Allow residents of one state to bring

  lawsuits against residents of another state

“Mr. Rockefeller… had worked out a well-conceived plan for a controlling the oil business of the United States.”

Ida Tarbell

Ida Tarbell’s efforts to expose Rockefeller’s business practices are evidence that she was a(n)

(SSUSH13a)

• abolitionist

• communist

• muckraker

• Radical Republican

Which event of the early 1900’s is evidence that Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle had an important impact on the United States? (SSUSH13a)

• adoption of reforms in public education

• adoption of the 18th amendment

  establishing Prohibition

• passage of legislation limiting

  immigration

• passage of legislation requiring Federal

  inspection of meat

Which of the following was the PRIMARY result of James Madison’s Presidency and the War of 1812? (SSUSH6e)

• An increase in American Nationalism

• Women were give the right to vote as a

  result of their participation in the war

• African Americas were emancipated as a

  result of their war efforts

• America lost land in the Northwest to Canada

Which early 20th century reformer opened Hull House a settlement to help the poor and immigrants?

(SSUSH13b)

• Ida Tarbell

• Susan B. Anthony

• Upton Sinclair

• Jane Addams

The Supreme Court's decision in Plessy v. Ferguson

• ended segregation in the United States

• allowed African Americans to serve in

  the armed forces

• upheld the doctrine of "separate but

  equal".

• overturned the earlier Dred Scott

  decision

The purpose of the conservation movement was to (SSUSH13d)

• save Native Americans from being

  removed from their land

• save millions of acres of wilderness

  lands, particularly in western states

• encourage Americans to start going back

  to church

• build factories in southern states so that African Americans could receive jobs

During the Progressive Era, muckrakers published articles and novels primarily to (SSUSH13a)

• advance their own political careers

• help the federal government become

  more efficient

• make Americans aware of problems in

  society

• provide entertainment for readers

A major purpose of the Progressive movement (1900-1917) was to (SSUSH13a)

• Stimulate the economy

• Encourage immigration from southern

  and eastern Europe

• Support government control of factory

  production

• Correct the economic and social abuses

  of industrial society

Which group played an active role in progressive reform movements? (SSUSH13b)

• White males

• Native Americans

• Women

• Mexicans