American Yawp Chapter 20

1. How did progressive Democrats in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife?

c. Legislating segregation

2. How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption?

a. Disenfranchising black voters

3. In the election of 1896, 130,000 black Louisianans voted. In 1900 the number was _____________.

d. 5,320

4. Which of the following definition best describes the work of muckrakers?

a. Investigative journalists

5. What legal principle was enshrined by the Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson?

b. Separate but equal

6. Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trustbuster by attacking which monopoly in 1902?

b. Northern Securities

7. Why did so many die in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire?

a. Unsafe working conditions

8. Who advocated racial accomodationism?

b. Booker T. Washington

9. Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

d. The goal of saving society as well as souls

10. W. E. B. Du Bois, founder the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke with his former mentor Booker T. Washington because, Du Bois believed that Washington _______.

a. Was not bold enough

11. All of the following statements regarding the National Women’s Party are true EXCEPT

c. Advocated violent resistance to sexism

12. All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT

d. Al Smith

13. Which of the following writers most effectively used photography in their work?

b. Jacob Riis

14. Which of the following environmental thinkers advocated preservation rather than conservation?

a. John Miur

15. Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams’ activism are true?

d. All of the above