Unit 2: The Progressive Era

1) What is an unplanned consequence of third parties?, the Populist Party?

• They draw voters away from major parties which can change who wins an election (like the 1912 election)

• They can win presidential elections without warning

• They can cause proposed amendments to fail

• They can destroy the two-party system

1) What is the purpose of Third Parties?

• To steal voters from major parties

• To unbalance the two-party system

• To create a multi-party system in the United States

• To draw attention to grievances (issues) that major parties are not talking about

2) What was the purpose of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

• To fight for the civil rights of minorities they legally should have

• The manage major sports on the college level

• To provide educational training for African Americans

• To provide legal protections for recent freed slaves

2) What was the purpose of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?

• To establish basic rights for all citizens

• To abolish slavery and establish rights for African Americans

• To give voting rights to women

• To increase the power of the people by granting women suffrage

2) Which describes the work of W.E.B. DuBois?

• They created the civil rights organization the NAACP

• They provided vocational skills training for African Americans at the Tuskegee Institute

• They exposed the conditions of the meatpacking industry in their book The Jungle

• They revealed the horrible conditions of tenements in their book How the Other Half Lives

2) Which describes the work of Booker T Washington?

• They created the civil rights organization the NAACP

• They provided vocational skills training for African Americans at the Tuskegee Institute

• They exposed the conditions of the meatpacking industry in their book The Jungle

• They revealed the horrible conditions of tenements in their book How the Other Half Lives

3) Which describes the work of Upton Sinclair?

• They created the civil rights organization the NAACP

• They provided vocational skills training for African Americans at the Tuskegee Institute

• They exposed the conditions of the meatpacking industry in their book The Jungle

• They revealed the horrible conditions of tenements in their book How the Other Half Lives

3) Which describes the work of Jacob Riis?

• They created the civil rights organization the NAACP

• They provided vocational skills training for African Americans at the Tuskegee Institute

• They exposed the conditions of the meatpacking industry in their book The Jungle

• They revealed the horrible conditions of tenements in their book How the Other Half Lives

3) What was the purpose of the Muckraker??

• They were business persons who used ruthless business tactics to create monopolies

• They were members of an Ethics Committee to bring justice

• They advocated for women's suffrage

• They exposed corruption using journalism to motivate people to change society for the better

3) What was the goal of Jane Addam's Hull House?

• To provide shelter for veterans after World War I

• To educate women and children and to assimilate immigrants

• To create missionaries to send overseas

• To advocate for Prohibition