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Chapter 12 Study Guide

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are civil rights?

a)

replacement workers who took over the jobs of striking workers

b)

legal guarantees that all citizens should have under the Constitution

c)

the right to vote

d)

a writer who helped spread the Progressives’ message

2.

What is a muckraker?

a)

the growth of unions

b)

a call for people to reduce or stop drinking alcohol

c)

new laws gave women the right to vote.

d)

a writer who helped spread the Progressives’ message

3.

What is suffrage?

a)

the right to vote

b)

replacement workers who took over the jobs of striking workers

c)

legal guarantees that all citizens should have under the Constitution

d)

a writer who helped spread the Progressives’ message

4.

More people worked in factories due to...

a)

New laws

b)

People moving out west for farm

c)

growing industries

d)

losing jobs in the North

5.

Unions grew more rapidly due to...

a)

growing industries

b)

growth of trusts

c)

opening of settlement houses

d)

passing the Seventeenth Amendment

6.

What was the Sixteenth Amendment?

a)

improving the treatment of people who were mentally ill

b)

Children being allowed to make cigars

c)

Gave women the right to vote

d)

Amendment that taxed income

7.

What was Dorothea Dix known for?

a)

improving the treatment of people who were mentally ill

b)

protecting the American wilderness

c)

improving the conditions in Alabama prisons

d)

improving the care for soldiers on the warfront

8.

Why did Homer Plessy go to court?

a)

protecting the American wilderness

b)

to win the right to vote

c)

to challenge segregation

d)

to challenge poverty

9.

Why did African Americans migrate North?

a)

There was no segregation allowed in the North.

b)

They were looking for relatives.

c)

They hoped for better-paying jobs and better living conditions.

d)

The Union had won the Civil War.

10.

Booker T. Washington believed African Americans could overcome prejudice by...

a)

They could get an education to learn skills that would get them jobs.

b)

They could buy only from businesses owned by African Americans.

c)

They could demand a constitutional amendment to end segregation.

d)

They could publish newspapers for the African American community

11.

Why was it necessary to amend the U.S. Constitution before all women in the United States got the right to vote?

a)

Women had served their country during World War I.

b)

The national government could prevent women from voting in western states

c)

Without a constitutional amendment, individual states would have the right to deny women the right to vote.

d)

All new laws require a change to the U.S. Constitution

12.

“The right of citizens to vote shall not be denied or abridged [limited] by the United States or by any state on account of [the] sex [of a person].”


The quotation above comes from what amendment to the United States Constitution?

a)

Fifteenth

b)

Seventeenth

c)

Nineteenth

d)

Twenty-sixth

13.

As the United States became more industrial, what did many children who lived in cities do?

a)

ead labor unions

b)

become apprentices

c)

work in factories

d)

go to schoo

14.

Why did reformers want to pass the Seventeenth Amendment?

a)

to protect women and children from problems caused by alcohol

b)

to give women the equal rights they deserved

c)

to pay for new government programs

d)

to give citizens a greater say in choosing their representatives

15.

What issue was John Muir associated with?

a)

conservation

b)

corruption among elected officials

c)

improving treatment of people with mental illnesses

d)

improving treatment of people with mental illnesses

16.

Which of the following was a “pull factor” in the Great Migration?

a)

weather in the North

b)

poverty in the South

c)

segregation in the South

d)

better jobs in the North

17.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...” Seneca Falls, 1848


On what document is this passage about women’s rights based?

a)

the United States Constitution

b)

the Federalist Papers

c)

the Gettysburg Address

d)

the Declaration of Independence

18.

What did the Supreme Court rule about women’s rights in the late 1800s?

a)

Decisions about women’s rights should be part of the Constitution.

b)

Decisions about women’s rights should be left to each state.

c)

Women were not included in the Constitution.

d)

Women should depend on their husbands for their rights.