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WorksheetsWMS Segregation/Progressive Reform
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
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Class
Date
1.
Racial segregation was primarily directed against
a)
African Americans
b)
Hispanic Americans
c)
European Americans
d)
Asian Americans
2.
Which Supreme Court case decided the policy of "separate but equal?"
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Brown v. Board of Education
c)
Marbury v. Madison
d)
DuBois v. Washington
3.
Who were not considered citizens of the U.S. until 1924?
a)
Native Americans
b)
African Americans
c)
Hispanic Americans
d)
Irish Americans
4.
What was not a method of discrimination against African Americans?
a)
Vocational education
b)
Jim Crow laws
c)
Poll taxes
d)
Literacy tests
5.
Who believed equality could be achieved through vocational education?
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
W.E.B. DuBois
c)
Henry Frick
d)
Frederick Douglass
6.
Who helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?
a)
W.E.B. DuBois
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Samuel Gompers
7.
What was one of the most important labor unions of the late 1800s?
a)
American Federation of Labor
b)
NAACP
c)
Congress of Industrial Workers
d)
American Football League
8.
Which was a steel mill strike that occurred near Pittsburgh?
a)
Homestead Strike
b)
Pullman Strike
c)
Haymarket Strike
d)
Temperance Strike
9.
The Homestead Strike ended in
a)
violence and bloodshed
b)
better wages for workers
c)
improved safety conditions
d)
more power for unions
10.
Which movement involved favoring legal changes designed to help people and make the world a better place?
a)
Progressive
b)
Vocational
c)
Segregation
d)
Labor
11.
Which of the following was not a workplace reform during the Progressive Reform Era?
a)
Health insurance benefits
b)
Reduced work hours
c)
Improved safety conditions
d)
Restrictions on child labor
12.
What is suffrage?
a)
The right to vote
b)
The lack of the right to vote
c)
Not drinking alcoholic beverages
d)
Prevent an action by law
13.
The 19th Amendment
a)
gave women suffrage
b)
prohibited the sale of alcohol
c)
banned poll taxes
d)
confirmed "separate but equal"
14.
Which of the following is known for women's suffrage?
a)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Booker T. Washington
c)
Carrie Nation
d)
Samuel Gompers
15.
The practice of not drinking alcoholic beverages is called
a)
temperance
b)
suffrage
c)
progressive
d)
strike
16.
The Amendment that banned the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcoholic beverages was the
a)
18th Amendment
b)
19th Amendment
c)
15th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
17.
To prevent an action, usually by law, is to
a)
prohibit
b)
temperance
c)
unionize
d)
segregate
18.
Segregation is
a)
the separation of different groups within society
b)
the training for a specific job
c)
the fight for better pay, hours, and conditions for workers
d)
the favoring of changes to help people
19.
Booker T. Washington believed that
a)
segregation had to be accepted for the time being
b)
segregation should be immediately prohibited
c)
workers should strike for better pay and hours
d)
alcohol was to blame for problems in society
20.
Samuel Gompers is known for
a)
organized labor
b)
women's suffrage
c)
temperance
d)
segregation
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