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Unit 3, Pt. 3 - Progressivism - Reformers

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

These people exposed business abuses & corruption through their writing and reporting.

a)

scoop seekers

b)

mugwumps

c)

yellow journalists

d)

muckrakers

2.

Former slave; founded Tuskegee, believed in vocational education for all Af. Americans.

a)

W.E.B. Dubois

b)

Booker T. Washington

c)

George Washington Carver

d)

Frederick Douglass

3.

Radical suffragette & leader of the National Women's Party; led marches & hunger strikes.

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Lucretia Mott

c)

Alice Paul

d)

Ida Tarbell

4.

Wrote "How the Other Half Lives" that exposed the horrors of tenement life & crime in NYC.

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jacob Riis

d)

William Lloyd Garrison

5.

Believed in full social & political rights for African Americans & a "Talented Tenth."

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

Martin Luther King Jr.

c)

Nat Turner

d)

W.E.B. DuBois

6.

"Mother of all Social Work." Founded Hull House = help immigrants "settle into" U.S. culture.

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Harriet Tubman

d)

Ida Tarbell

7.

Wrote "The Jungle" = exposed unsafe & unsanitary working conditions in meat processing plants.

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

James K. Polk

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Harriet Beecher Stowe

8.

This federal agency was created by the 1906 Food & Drug Act.

a)

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

b)

Food & Drug Administration (FDA)

c)

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)

d)

Food & Safety Inspection Service (FSIS)

9.

Tuskegee scientist, botanist, educator, & Inventor. Developed new crops to aid poor farmers.

a)

George Washington Carver

b)

George Edward Acorn

c)

Marie Maynard Daly

d)

Neil deGrasse Tyson

10.

This amendment formally gave women the right to vote in the U.S.

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

11.

Radical "hatchet wielding" temperance advocate; founded the Women's Christian Temperance Union

a)

Susan B. Anthony

b)

Carrie Chapman Catt

c)

Carrie Nation

d)

Alice Paul

12.

This is NOT one of the 3 approaches suffragettes used to win the vote:

a)

used peaceful sit-ins to protest inequality.

b)

Pursued court cases to test the 14th Amendment

c)

Convinced state legislatures to adopt the vote

d)

Pushed for a national constitutional amendment

13.

Former slave, teacher, & paper editor from Memphis, TN. Devoted to an anti-lynching campaign.

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Lucretia Mott

c)

Ida B. Wells-Barnett

d)

Mary McCleod Bethune

14.

Founded by Booker T. Washington as a vocational technical school

a)

Fisk University

b)

Benedict College

c)

Howard University

d)

Tuskegee University

15.

Where the U.S. women's suffrage movement started back in 1848:

a)

Charleston, SC

b)

Philadelphia, PA

c)

Seneca Falls, NY

d)

Boston, MA