Chapter 7 Test

Question 1

They made people aware of problems in America

Answer 1

journalists

Question 2

Henry Ford’s car ran on this

Answer 2

gasoline

Question 3

This president pushed many Progressive ideas

Answer 3

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 4

They wanted more power returned to ordinary people

Answer 4

farmers

Question 5

Describes American life in the early 1900s

Answer 5

progress

Question 6

Some Americans thought these people might not practice the skills needed to get good jobs

Answer 6

the poor

Question 7

Authorities on American life who study societies

Answer 7

social scientists

Question 8

Customs, beliefs, arts, and institutions of a group of people

Answer 8

culture

Question 9

The act in which white and black Americans had to stay separated

Answer 9

segregation

Question 10

Wrote news stories that focused on bad news and sin

Answer 10

muckrakers

Question 11

Booker T Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois had different opinions on how to deal with this

Answer 11

segregation

Question 12

These were some of the most respected leaders in the United States in the 1800s

Answer 12

pastors

Question 13

New inventions during the 1900s made life _________

Answer 13

easier

Question 14

Wilbur and Orville Wright built this that could fly on its own power and was directed by a pilot

Answer 14

plane

Question 15

Farmers wanted this returned to ordinary people

Answer 15

power

Question 16

The belief that God rules over all and that nothing happens apart from God’s plan or permission

Answer 16

providence

Question 17

This is who Progressives wanted to run schools

Answer 17

experts

Question 18

They became much wealthier than anyone else in the country

Answer 18

business leaders

Question 19

College teachers turned to this as a source of truth

Answer 19

science

Question 20

Progressives wanted employers to buy this so employers would have money to pay hurt workers

Answer 20

accident insurance