Progressive Era of Reform

In the early 1900s, Americans took part in all of these leisure activities, EXCEPT...

• listening to Jazz.

• listening to Ragtime Music.

• watching baseball.

• skateboarding.

____________________ was the most famous Boss of a political machine.

• William Magear Tweed

• A. Philip Randolph

• Jacob Riis

• Upton Sinclair

__________________ in the Gilded Age included bribes, extortion, convincing the poor to vote a certain way by promising them jobs, and stealing millions from the cities in which they operated.

• Technicalities

• Distress

• Corruption

• Influence

Believing that the government should take complete ownership of CORRUPT businesses is called ______________.

• Socialism

• Progressivism

• Corruption

• Absolutism

_____________________ is the thought that the government should regulate, not control, corrupt businesses.

• Socialism

• Progressive

• Reformism

• Civil Service

Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Lincoln Steffens were all ________________ , who exposed the "muck" of society.

• writers

• authors

• journalists

• muckrakers

The 18th Amendment began a period of _________________, during which the production, sale, and transport of alcohol became illegal in the U.S.

• Illegalism

• Prohibition

• Anti-Alcoholism

• Alcoholism

John Dewey advocated changes in public education to place greater emphasis on _____________________ rather than rote memorization.

• understanding

• praying

• getting

• believing

Women's Suffrage refers to a woman's right to _______.

• work.

• get divorced.

• vote.

• bear children

Was it Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. Du Bois who believed that legal equality for African Americans would put an end to injustice?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois