Progressive Era and Sufferage Assessment

The work of Susan B. Anthony led to the passage of the

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

• 20th Amendment

• Pure Food and Drug Act

Booker T. Washington wanted to improve the lives of African Americans by

• Forming labor unions of African American Workers

• Organizing boycotts

• Promoting vocational training for African Americans

• Organizing voter registration drives

Jim Crow laws were enacted in the south to unfairly target African Americans, which of the following was a reason for their establishment?

• To segregate Blacks and Whites in the South

• To encourage industrial growth in the South

• To protect the voting rights of all citizens in the South

• To formally abolish the Poll Tax in the South

Work of the reformers during the Progressive Era focused on

• Concerns about conservationism

• policies related to isolationism

• civil rights for minority groups

• issues related to social injustice

Jane Addams is remembered for her work in social reform for urban poor

• True

• False

Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" to expose the plight of workers, but instead it led to the which of the following results

• passing the 16th Amendment

• better school nutrition programs

• government regulation of the food industry

• reforms in working conditions

Ida B. Wells was a muckraker who used her newspaper "Free Speech" to campaign against and inform the public of which of the following?

• Alcohol

• Lynching

• Gambling

• Child Labor

Which of the following groups was established under W.E.B. DuBois

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

• League of African American Voters

• Freedman's Journal

• United Negro Alliance

Which Muckraker exposed the ruthless practices of the Standard Oil Company

• Lincoln Steffens

• Ida Tarbell

• Upton Sinclair

• Jacob Riis

In the case of "Plessy V. Ferguson" in 1896, the Supreme Court ruled which of the following

• Segregation was unconstitutional in all forms

• Poll Taxes violated the 15th Amendment

• Literacy Tests were Illegal

• Separate but Equal facilities were constitutional