TEST Progressive Era, Pre WW1, and WW1

Question 1

Upton Sinclair’s novelThe Jungle

Answer 1

meant to open America’s eyes to the plight of workers in filthy, dangerous Chicago stockyards

Question 2

Nineteenth Amendment

Answer 2

stated that the right to vote “shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex.”

Question 3

Margaret Sanger

Answer 3

believed that families that had less children could improve, so she opened the first birth control center; she founded founded the American Birth Control League

Question 4

NAWSA

Answer 4

Carrie Chapman Catt joined the National American Woman Suffrage Association and became the president; helped women win the right to vote in 3 states

Question 5

W.E.B. Du Bois

Answer 5

believed that black Americans had to demand their social and civil rights or else become permanent victims of racism

Question 6

Square Deal

Answer 6

goals were to keep the wealthy and powerful from taking advantage of small businesses

Question 7

NAACP

Answer 7

the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; aimed to help African Americans be free from discrimination; created after a white mob killed people in Illinois

Question 8

Booker T Washington

Answer 8

believed that African Americans had to achieve economic independence before civil rights

Question 9

Ida B. Wells

Answer 9

a black teacher who helped form the Nation Association of Colored Women (NACW), which aimed to help families strive for success and to assist those who were less fortunate; set up daycare systems while parents worked

Question 10

Muckrakers

Answer 10

because they were writers that focused on the ugliest side of things in reform, Roosevelt called them muckrakers (a muckrake is a tool used to clean manure and hay out of animals’ stables); Lincoln Steffens is a leading muckraker, editor at McClure’s, which uncovers social problems; he wrote The Shame of the Cities; Jacob Riis is another leading muckraker, a photographer for New York Evening Sun; he wrote How the Other Half Lives

Question 11

Settlement house

Answer 11

a community center that provided social services to the urban poor; when Jane Addams was in Europe, she was inspired by the settlement house Toynbee Hall, so she opened the Hull House, which inspired women to become social workers.

Question 12

Gifford Pinchot

Answer 12

believed that forests should be preserved so that people could use their trees, one they matured, as good lumber

Question 13

Clayton Antitrust Act

Answer 13

strengthened old antitrust acts by spelling out those activities in which businesses could not engage

Question 14

WCTU

Answer 14

the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, the practice of never drinking alcohol

Question 15

What did Progressive women reformers work to do?

Answer 15

they wanted to gain rights for women

Question 16

Susan B. Anthony

Answer 16

struggled to have a voice in politics; managed to win rights to vote in a couple of western states

Question 17

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Answer 17

struggled to have a voice in politics; managed to win rights to vote in a couple of western states

Question 18

What political party did Wilson represent in 1912 election?

Answer 18

He represented the moral diplomacy/Latin American party

Question 19

Hawaii’s annexation

Answer 19

A U.S. tariff increased sugar prices in Hawaii; Successor Queen Liliuokalani abolished white planter’s power, but was overthrown by the U.S. government; President Harrison tried to annex Hawaii, but could not because Grover Cleveland became president

Question 20

Moral diplomacy

Answer 20

Wilson’s campaign for the rights of Latin Americans

Question 21

USS Maine

Answer 21

Spain would not listen to the Americans, so they sent the USS Maine to protect American citizens from Cuba, which sank, and contributed to the war outbreak

Question 22

Platt Amendment

Answer 22

prevented Cuba from signing a treaty with another nation without American approval, technically added their land to the US, and granted the right to intervene to protect the peace in Cuba

Question 23

Federal Reserve Act

Answer 23

placed banks under the control of the Federal Reserve Board, which helped banks from gaining to much money; also created a system of borrowing money

Question 24

Rough Riders

Answer 24

Roosevelt’s group consisting of rugged westerners that lived on a strenuous life; they battled in Kettle and the San Juan hills in Santiago, Cuba.

Question 25

Roosevelt’s big stick

Answer 25

depends on a strong military to achieve American’s goals; came from African American saying, “Speak softly and carry a big stick; and you will go far”