Progressive Era and Sufferage Assessment

The work of Susan B. Anthony led to the passage of the

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• Pure Food and Drug Act

Booker T. Washington wanted to improve the lives of African Americans by

• Forming labor unions of African American Workers

• Organizing boycotts

• Promoting vocational training for African Americans

• Organizing voter registration drives

The first large-scale effort by the US Government to regulate business was the

• Interstate Commerce Commission

• Adoption of 18th Amendment

• Creation of Food and Drug Admin

• Passing the Chinese Exclusion Act

Work of the reformers during the Progressive Era focused on

• Concerns about conservationism

• policies related to isolationism

• civil rights for minority groups

• issues related to social injustice

Jane Addams is remembered for her work in social reform for urban poor

• True

• False

The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, led President Roosevelt to respond by

• passing the 16th Amendment

• better school nutrition programs

• government regulation of the food industry

• reforms in working conditions

Ida B. Wells was a muckraker who spoke out against ....

• Alcohol

• Lynching

• Gambling

• Child Labor

W.E.B. DuBois believed that ....

• African Americans needed to organize as a political party

• African Americans must leave the U.S. to obtain rights

• African Americans will gradually gain Civil Rights

• African Americans deserved equality immediately

During the Progressive Era more American achieved individual rights

• True

• False

Which group did W.E.B. DuBois help create?

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• League of African American Voters

• Freedman's Journal

• United Negro Alliance