Progressivism Quiz

Question 1

A series of political and cultural responses to industrialization and it’s byproducts.

Answer 1

progressivism

Question 2

What are the by-products of progressivism?

Answer 2

immigration
urbanization
the rise of corporate power
widening class divisions

Question 3

Was progressivism more focused on urban or rural issues?

Answer 3

urban

Question 4

Key ideas of progressivism

Answer 4

social problems could be fixed

science and technology made some of these problems but could fix them as well.

Question 5

What group attacked social Darwinism?

Answer 5

intellectuals

Question 6

Who proposed the public education reform?

Answer 6

Dewey

Question 7

People who used reporting to expose problems of industrial order

Answer 7

muckrakers

Question 8

Progressivism is generally very…

Answer 8

very middle class
very white
very urban

Question 9

Response to progression

Answer 9

industrialization & urbanization

Question 10

Small apartments that had only one room and were in poor parts of the city

Answer 10

tenements

Question 11

What is a dumbbell tenement?

Answer 11

waste was thrown down the middle of an apartment

Question 12

Man who used flash photography to EXPOSE the poor living conditions in New York.

Answer 12

Jacob Riis

Question 13

What was the title of Jacob’s book?

Answer 13

“How the Other Half Lives”

Question 14

who wrote “The Jungle”

Answer 14

Upton Sinclair

Question 15

Man who exposed harsh labor conditions for immigrants working in industrial jobs.

Answer 15

Upton Sinclair

Question 16

Rejected Booker T. Washington’s message and instead called for political power, insistence on civil rights, and supported higher education of African-American youth

Answer 16

DuBois

Question 17

Gained support from whites in North and South because of his submission to white power. Taught industrial skills to young African Americans and DINED with Teddy Roosevelt.

Answer 17

Booker T. Washington

Question 18

what are some examples of white backlash to reconstruction?

Answer 18

KKK, solid south, compromise of 1877

Question 19

how did they keep blacks from voting

Answer 19

the literacy tests
poll tax
the grandfather clause

Question 20

who tf is black?

Answer 20

One drop policy: if you are 1/8th black or 1/16 black then you are black!

Question 21

the outcome of Plessey vs Ferguson

Answer 21

separate but equal

Question 22

example of economic exploitation

Answer 22

DEBT SLAVERY

Question 23

leader of national progressivism

Answer 23

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 24

what did taft do?

Answer 24

pissed people off bc he was too weak

Question 25

was woodrow racist?

Answer 25

yes

Question 26

citizens get together to write a bill, certain % registered voters.

Answer 26

initiative

Question 27

bill introduced by the state legislature

Answer 27

referendrum

Question 28

removing elected official from gov’t position

Answer 28

recall