The Progressive Era Test (Vocabulary)

Question 1

Urban

Answer 1

area in a town or city

Question 2

Rural

Answer 2

Countryside; outside of towns and cities

Question 3

Progressive Era

Answer 3

Changes were made to politics, economics, and everyday life in order to improve the conditions of the American people. (to help the urban poor)

Question 4

Old or First Wave of Immigration

Answer 4

immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe - Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Germany and France.

Question 5

Second or New Wave

Answer 5

most immigrants came from Southern and Eastern Europe - Russia, Poland, Italy and Spain.

Question 6

Nativism

Answer 6

an anti immigrant attitude idea that your native country needs to be protected against immigrants

Question 7

Muckraker

Answer 7

a journalist or an author who searches for and exposes shocking situations

Question 8

Tenement

Answer 8

Rental units that often consisted of only one room; usually in crowded, unsanitary, run-down buildings.