SSUSH 13 Quiz Review

Match each of these Progressive Era people and terms with the correct definition or description.

• Hull House

• This group of authors and journalists wrote of horrible working conditions in American industry in the early 20th century, resulting in more governmental protection of workers.

• Ida Tarbell

• This was one of the first settlement houses in the US established in 1889 by Jane Addams in Chicago, Illinois.

• Recall

• This amendment provided for the direct election of U.S. Senators.

• 17th Amendment

• This is the process the people use to remove an elected official from office.

• Muckrakers

• She was a leading Muckraker who wrote the 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company.

This political cartoon from 1854 BEST represents which of these topics?

• Monopolies

• Industrialization

• Immigration and its Impact

• Causes of the Great Depression

Which of these would have been MOST concerned with the topic shown in this cartoon?

• The Populists

• The Muckrakers

• The Know-Nothings

• The Anti-Imperialists

“Though he acquired a fortune through her, or though she earn a fortune through her talents, he is the sole master of it, and she cannot draw a penny...She passes out of legal existence.”

In the excerpt, Harriet Beecher Stowe is advocating for

• Universal women's suffrage.

• The rights of factory workers.

• The property rights of married women.

• The rights of formerly enslaved people.

Upton Sinclair was a notable Muckraker who published The Jungle in 1906. Because of the book, Congress passed the Pure Food and Drug Act the following year. What was the result of passing this legislation?

• It sought to remove regulations in food production.

• • It only allowed for the sale of American-made foods.

    It only allowed for the sale of American-made foods. - no response given

• It made companies list all ingredients in their products.

• It prevented companies from producing multiple types of food products.

Match the terms relating to discrimination with the correct definition. Not all items will be used.

• Discrimination

• Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race.

• • Separate But Equal

• This is the name of the legal doctrine of discrimination of the races that was adopted in much of the United States after 1896.

• Jim Crow Laws

• This was a U.S. Supreme Court decision that established the legality of racial segregation so long as facilities were "separate but equal."

• • Plessy v. Ferguson

• This is the term that refers to the illegal and unjust treatment of a person or persons because of their race, color, gender, orientation, or national origin.

The NAACP’s principal objective is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority citizens of the United States and eliminate race prejudice.

Based on its objective, the creation of the NAACP can be MOST likely seen as a response to what court case?

• Roe v. Wade

• Marbury v. Madison

• Plessey v. Ferguson

• Brown v. Board of Education

What developed throughout the South as result of the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson?

• poll taxes and voting restrictions

• "Jim Crow" laws that supported segregation

• overturned laws that legalized segregation

• Black codes whose purpose was to restrict African-Americans

The NAACP argued that Plessy v. Ferguson was a violation of which amendment that offers equal protection under the Constitution?

• 13th

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

Correctly match the description with the Progressive-Era presidency

Groups:

(a) Theodore Roosevelt

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(b) William Howard Taft

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(c) Woodrow Wilson

• Promised "New Freedom" from trusts and tarriffs

• Passed the Pure Food and Drug Act

• Stregnthened Interstate Commerce Commission

• Passed the Meat Inspection Act of 1906

• Supported popular election of US senators

• Proposed forming the League of Nations

• Passed the Federal Reserve Act