American Republic Chapter 19 Quiz

The movement of people to cities is called ​ (a)  

Another word for forced separation is called ​ (b)  

• urbanization
• segregation
• integration
• citification

The urbanization of America occurred when which two groups of people continued to move to American cities?

• immigrants

• factory workers

• farmers

• tycoons

What famous court case decided that "separate but equal" facilities were constitutional?

Sort the ideas to tell which person they describe.

Groups:

(a) Booker T. Washington

,

(b) W. E. B. Du Bois

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(c) George Washinton Carver

• discovered numerous medical uses for plants in the South

• a famous critic of discrimination who earned a doctorate from Harvard

• encouraged Black Americans to learn a vocational skill

• first leader of the Tuskegee Institute, a school for Black Americans

• helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

• a botanist whose research involved fining many uses for peanuts

What were three sports that became popular with new leisure time?

Name three ways in which discrimination grew during this time.

Ideas about religion and spirituality in the US were changing during the early 1900s because...

• many immigrants followed religions other than Protestant Christianity

• unorthodox groups arose that challenged foundational beliefs of Christianity

• agnostics became more vocal about the idea of people not being able to know if there is a God

• some Christians believed people needed to judge which parts of the Bible were true and which were false

Name three examples of reform or outreach that took place in the early 1900s.

What is the name of the movement during the late 19th and early 20th century that favored achieving political and social reform through education, wider political participation, and direct action by the government?

What were the goals of Progressivism?

• fight corruption and unfair practices in society

• improve the quality of life without help from the government

• decrease the influence of regular citizens in government

• use technical experts to make government more efficient