The American Yawp Chapter 20 The Progressive Era

How did progressive Democratics in the South seek to solve the problems of racial strife?

a. Advocating for equal access to education for all

b. Seeking to dismantle Jim Crow laws

c. Legislating segregation

d. All of the above

c. Legislating segregation

How did southern reformers seek to combat corruption?

a. Disenfranchising black voters

b. Invoking the fifteenth amendment in legal cases

c. Passing campaign finance reform

d. Southern reformers did not show concern with corruption

a. Disenfranchising black voters

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

a. 158,450

b. 139,482

c. 53,459

d. 5,320

d. 5,320

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

a. Investigative journalists

b. Organized crime hitmen

c. Social workers

d. Legislators who defended lynching

a. Investigative journalists

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

a. Habeus corpus

b. Separate but equal

c. No taxation without representation

d. Lynch law

b. Separate but equal

Theodore Roosevelt first gained fame as a trust busters by attacking which monopoly in 1902?

a. Standard Oil

b. Northern Securities

c. J.P. Morgan Chase

d. General Electric

b. Northern Securities

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

a. Unsafe working conditions

b. Racial violence

c. Corrupt law enforcement

d. Union protests

a. Unsafe working conditions

Who advocated racial accommodationism?

a. W.E.B. DuBois

b. Booker T. Washington

c. Eugene Debs

d. Ida B. Wells

b. Booker T. Washington

Which of the following best describes the Social Gospel?

a. The belief that Christ would return to Earth in the next decade

b. A theological defense of segregation

c. A religious of temperance activists

d. The goal of saving society as well as souls

d. The goal of saving society as well as souls

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

a. Was not bold enough

b. Was too radical

c. Was corrupt and immoral

d. Lacked the skills to organize a large movement

a. Was not bold enough

All of the following statements regarding the National Women's Party are true EXCEPT:

a. Led by Alice Paul

b. Picketed the White House

c. Advocated violent resistance to sexism

d. Over 150 members were arrested and imprisoned

c. Advocated violent resistance to sexism

All of the following were candidates in the 1912 presidential election EXCEPT:

a. Woodrow Wilson

b. Theodore Roosevelt

c. William Howard Taft

d. Al Smith

d. Al Smith

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

a. Upton Sinclair

b. Jacob Riis

c. Edward Bellamy

d. Ida B. Wells

b. Jacob Riis

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

a. John Miur

b. Gifford Pinchot

c. Alice Hamilton

d. All of the above

a. John Miur

Which of the following statements regarding Jane Addams' activism are true?

a. Spoke out against militarism

b. Created an influential settlement home in Chicago

c. Favored cooperation between the rich and the poor

d. All of the above

d. All of the above