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Progressive Era
10th Social Studies Progressive ERA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| During the Progressive Era, many churches and religious organizations began efforts to improve | society |
| The NAACP grew out of the ideas of | WEB Dubois |
| 18th Amendment | Prohibition |
| What policy was put into place by Plessy v. Ferguson decision of the Supreme Court?This SYSTEM was accepted in the South. | JIM CROW LAWS |
| Preliminary election in which voters choose the final candidates | Direct Primary |
| African American educator who headed the Tuskegee Institute | Booker T. Washington |
| One of the progressives' main goals was to improve | capitalism |
| Organization that worked for equality for African Americans | NAACP |
| Progressive leader of the women's suffrage movement | Carrie Chapman Catt |
| The most significant political reform that the progressives accomplished at the NATIONAL level was the | direct election of senators |
| Legal decision that defended a law limiting female factory workers to a 10 hour work day | Muller v. Oregon |
| Muckraker novelist who wrote "THE JUNGLE" | Upton Sinclair |
| Began the commission form of city government | Galveston |
| Direct election of senators | 17th Amendment |
| Empowered the federal government to levy an income tax | 16th Amendment |
| African American scientist and editor who taught at Atlanta University in the early 1900s | WEB Dubois |
| Supreme Court decision that segregation was constitutional as long as separate facilities were equal | Plessy v. Ferguson |
| Novel that described unsanitary meatpacking conditions | The Jungle |
| During the early 1900's, poor children seldom benefited from public education because they often had to do what to help their families? | work |
| Most progressive reformers were what kind of urban professionals? | middle-class |
| Perhaps the EMOTIONAL progressive reform was the campaign against | child labor |
| Journalists and writers who exposed corruption and social problems | Muckrakers |
| Alice Paul's strategy alarmed many in the suffrage movement because she wanted to start what type of political party? | Women's Only Political Party |
| As a result of progressive reforms in education, laws were passed requiring | attendance |