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WorksheetsAmerican History chapter 12: Struggle for Reform
Total questions: 67
Worksheet time: 2hrs 14mins
Which Amendment granted women the right to vote?
15th
18th
19th
21st
What term means the movement to make social change?
Temperance Movement
Progressive Movement
Mass Production
Women's Suffrage Movement
___________ created the Hull House.
Mary McLeod Bethune
Jane Addams
Lucy Stone
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton did what?
Helped ban alcohol because she thought drinking was immortal or because of alcohol abuse.
Helped organize a women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York and later she and Anthony led the women’s suffrage movement for 50 years.
Protested women's rights.
Created a newspaper called the Chicago Defender
What organization was created in 1917 to fight for fair and equal treatment for African Americans in the United States?
NAACP
AFL
ACLU
FBI
Which of the following is true about Booker T. Washington?
He never knew his mother, so he had compassion that led him to begin the Hull House
He was born a slave but pursued education. He started the Tuskegee Institute and became a leader in the African American community.
He created the Chicago Defender newspaper which played an important role in the Great Migration
He was an immigrant who became an influential muckraker as an author of the book The Jungle
What was the name of the college that Booker T. Washington started?
The Washington Institute
The University of Alabama
The Tuskegee Institute
Fisk University
He ran Tuskegee University.
Upton Sinclair
Booker T Washington
WEB DuBois
Mary McLeod Bethune
He founded the NAACP and went to Harvard.
Booker T Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B. Dubois
Homer Plessy
Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities.
Upton Sinclair
Samuel Gompers
Jacob Riis
John Marshall Harlan
What did the Sherman antitrust act do?
end discrimination
stop monopolies (break up big businesses into smaller ones)
label ingredients on food and drugs
require inspections of meat in meat packing plants
Which agency was created as a direct result of a novel about the meatpacking industry?
Food and Drug Administration
Federal Trade Commission
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
World Health Organization
Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL)?
Booker T. Washington
Jacob Riis
Samuel Gompers
Upton Sinclair
Which long-awaited goal of the women’s rights movement was achieved during the Progressive Era?
the right for women to vote
the right to own property
equal pay for equal work
equal access to employment and education
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute and a leader in the African American community
Booker T. Washington
George Washington Carver
W.E.B Dubois
Upton Sinclair
Which of the following represents the best definition for temperance movement?
a widespread effort by few people to increase the consumption of alcohol. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)
a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of alcohol. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)
a widespread effort by many people to reduce the consumption of tobacco. (mid 1800's to early 1900's)
the fight for equal rights such as education,voting, and workplace rights for women.
What was the result of the Plessy v. Ferguson case?
The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Plessy saying segregation was illegal.
The Supreme Court never made a ruling.
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal.
Plessy never took the case to the Supreme Court.
Which of the people below was the most important figure in the Women's Suffrage Movement?
Mary Harris "Mother" Jones
Susan B. Anthony
Dolley Madison
Harriett Tubman
Which of the following happened due to people working in factories?
farms and ranches were abandoned
prices for products dropped
housing was knocked down to build factories
urbanization and housing shortages
These organizations tried to improve working conditions for workers-
Political Bosses
Labor Unions
Political Machines
Farmers
A refusal to work (most successful method)
strikes
lockouts
collective bargaining
black lists
A refusal to work (most successful method of unions to demand changes)
strikes
lockouts
collective bargaining
black lists
What conclusions can you draw about trusts that controlled industries in the early 1900s?
As trusts grew, less attention was paid to the worker
The first progressives were the trust owners
Trusts protected children against dangerous working conditions
When a new trust formed, working conditions got better for workers
What did government do in order to provide programs that could improve citizen's lives,
They made strikes and boycotts legal.
They used muckrakers to expose government corruption.
The government taxed people's income to pay for these programs.
Government workers went on strike on the citizen's behalf.
What Were Jim Crow Laws?
Laws that integrated black and white people
Laws that made it illegal to separate black and white people
Laws that made it legal to separate blacks and whites in public places
Laws that all people followed on the road
The Supreme Court ruled that segregation was not discriminatory, stated that "separate but equal" is legal.
Mawer v. Utter
Brown v. Board of Education
Marbury v. Madison
Plessy v. Ferguson
The movement to encourage people to stop drinking alcohol was called the ______________________________ movement.
proposal
suffrage
temperance
declaration
Who worked at Tuskegee Institute and helped farmers become more successful?
George Washington Carver
W.E.B. Du Bois
Samuel Gompers
Robert S. Abbot
Which organization later fought to end school segregation through the court case Brown v Board of Education?
Tuskegee Institute
Chicago Defender
National Woman Suffrage Association
NAACP
