Progressivism and the Search for Order

Question 1

Pragmatism

Answer 1

The meaning of truth can only be discovered through experience

Question 2

Social Gospel

Answer 2

Embrace the teachings of Jesus on the ethical obligations for social justice and to put these teachings into action by working among the urban poor

Question 3

Muckrakers

Answer 3

Journalists who wanted to increase readership, so they reported on corruption in the government and shady businesses

Question 4

Civic Housekeeping

Answer 4

An expansion on a women’s housekeeping duties involved both legislative and social reform for issues including education, regulation of foodstuffs and medicines, sanitation and health.

Question 5

Hull House

Answer 5

A settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr.

Question 6

Suffragist

Answer 6

A person advocating that the right to vote be extended to more people, especially to women.

Question 7

Tuskegee Institute

Answer 7

A private, historically black land-grant university in Tuskegee, Alabama, United States. It was founded on July 4, 1881 by the Alabama Legislature.

Question 8

NAACP

Answer 8

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Question 9

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Answer 9

the home of grassroots activism for civil rights and social justice

Question 10

WCTU

Answer 10

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Question 11

Woman’s Christian Temperance Union

Answer 11

An international temperance organization that protested against drinking

Question 12

Bully Pulpit

Answer 12

A platform from which to promote programs and from which one could rally public opinion

Question 13

New Freedom

Answer 13

A more limited view of government