Unit 14-16 Test Practice

What best describes Progressivism?

• Expanding U.S. territory

• Ending slavery

• Fixing social problems caused by industrialization and urban growth

• Spreading Christianity

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives exposed:

• City poverty and slum life

• Urban transportation

• City entertainment

• Factory production

Muckrakers mainly tried to:

• Expose political corruption and social injustice

• Support civil rights groups

• Promote Prohibition

• Expand foreign trade

A key result of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire was:

• Child labor reform

• Fire-safety building codes

• Anti-discrimination laws

• Prohibition laws

Which reform was not achieved by Progressives?

• Banning child labor (in some states)

• Ending racial segregation

• Limiting women’s work hours

• Minimum wage (Massachusetts)

Who typically joined Progressive reform groups?

• Immigrant men

• Middle-class, educated women

• Southern farmers

• Industrial tycoons

Which was not a main Progressive goal?

• Women’s suffrage

• Child labor reform

• Full civil rights for African Americans

• Safer workplaces

Least likely job for women then:

• Factory owner/plant manager

• Teacher

• Nurse

• Secretary/bookkeeper

Which is not tied to Prohibition?

• WCTU

• Anti-Saloon League

• Frances Willard/Carrie Nation

• 16th Amendment

Arrested in 1872 for voting; later a top suffrage leader:

• Frances Willard

• Susan B. Anthony

• Carrie Nation

• Ida Tarbell