Unit 3 Test Review

Question 1

How were the Populists and Progressives similar in their approaches of reform?

Answer 1

They wanted to form a new party

Question 2

One goal of the Populist Party was to support whom?

Answer 2

Farmers

Question 3

Bimetallism would allow for the exchange of paper currency for:

Answer 3

Gold or Silver

Question 4

Who did the Populist support in the election of 1896?

Answer 4

William Jennings Bryan (Democraft)

Question 5

What did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DeBois strive for in their social reforms?

Answer 5

African America Equality - Civil Rights

Question 6

Rather than accept corruption and poverty, what did Progressives believe?

Answer 6

Political & Social Reforms

Question 7

What key Social Reform did the Social Gospel call for?

Answer 7

Settlement houses - churches & social services to help the poor

Question 8

What was the Temperance Movement?

Answer 8

Prohibition

Question 9

Who were the “Muckrakers”?

Answer 9

Investigative journalists - exposed corruption & social issues

Question 10

How the Other Half Lives

Answer 10

Jacob Riis

Question 11

History of Standard Oil

Answer 11

Ida Tarbell

Question 12

Shame of the Cities

Answer 12

Lincoln Steffens

Question 13

The Jungle

Answer 13

Upton Sinclair

Question 14

What are Reform Movements based on?

Answer 14

Response to the pressures of industrialization & urbanization

Question 15

Who started the earliest Settlement Houses?

Answer 15

Jane Addams - Hull House

Question 16

What did the Settlement Houses provide to the people?

Answer 16

Community services to the poor

Question 17

What did Ida B. Wells’ research reveal?

Answer 17

Lynchjng in the south

Question 18

List 3 Progressive Era Reforms?

Answer 18

Social, Political, & Conservation

Question 19

What was Booker T. Washington’s advice to African Americans?

Answer 19

Education + job skills/training to be self reliant

Question 20

How did Robert LaFollette use his position to improve American Society?

Answer 20

Railroad Regulation + Legislative Reform

Question 21

What utilities did some Municipal governments take ownership of?

Answer 21

Gas, water, trash, & transit

Question 22

What was the purpose of Progressive Political Reforms?

Answer 22

Right the wrongs of The Gilded Age

Question 23

What is initiative?

Answer 23

Citizens put a proposed new law on the ballot to be voted in the future

Question 24

What is referendum?

Answer 24

Citizens approve/reject a recently passed law by legislature

Question 25

What is recall?

Answer 25

Voters have the power to vote an unsatisfactory elected official out of office

Question 26

What role did John Muir play in regards to President Roosevelt’s conservation reform and what
organization did he found in 1892?

Answer 26

Sierra Club

• Got 148 million acres set aside for conservation

Question 27

How did Roosevelt solve the Coal Miners’ Strike of 1902?

Answer 27

Called them to the White House to negotiate

Question 28

What did Roosevelt do for the people under his Square Deal Legislation?

Answer 28

Conservation, Consumer Protection, Control of Corporations

Question 29

Which Roosevelt policy did Taft continue?

Answer 29

Trustbusting

Question 30

What political party nominated Roosevelt for President in 1912?

Answer 30

Progressive Party - Bull Moose

Question 31

After becoming President, where did Wilson focus his attention?

Answer 31

Anti-trust, bank reform a reduced tariffs

Question 32

While in office, what Legislation did Wilson get passed through Congress, and what did it do?

Answer 32

Clayton Anti-trust Act

Question 33

What did the National Park Service do for the country?

Answer 33

Conserve Natural Resources

Question 34

What policies were passed by Congress for the Unions and what did they do?

Answer 34

Clayton-Antitrust Act - unions legalized

Question 35

What did the women do at the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, 1848?

Answer 35

Organize the women’s suffrage movement

Question 36

What did Susan B. Anthony attempt in 1872?

Answer 36

voted illegally in an election

Question 37

Who led the National American Women’s Suffrage Association (NAWSA)?

Answer 37

Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Question 38

What was the last notable political reform of the Progressive Era?

Answer 38

19th Amendment
(Granted Women to vote)

Question 39

A. Founded the Women ́s Christian Temperance Union; supported prohibition

Answer 39

Frances Willard

Question 40

B. wrote Southern Horrors and supported an anti-lynch law; co-founded
the NAACP

Answer 40

Ida B. Wells

Question 41

C. believed the way to achieve equality was by focusing on economic
goals and waiting for Civil Rights; founded the Tuskegee Institute

Answer 41

Booker T. Washington

Question 42

D. wrote The Shame of the Cities exposing the corruption of political machines

Answer 42

Lincoln Steffens

Question 43

E. founded of the settlement house movement; known for Hull House in Chicago, IL

Answer 43

Jane Addams

Question 44

F. wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company and is responsible for the take down of the Rockefeller oil trust

Answer 44

Ida Tarbell

Question 45

G. Suffragist who fought for a constitutional amendment for women to vote

Answer 45

Susan B. Anthony

Question 46

H. wrote The Jungle which led to the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act

Answer 46

Upton Sinclair

Question 47

I. believed the only way to achieve civil rights was through activism and
protest; co-founded the NAACP

Answer 47

W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 48

J. wrote How the Other Half Lives which exposed living conditions of
the urban poor

Answer 48

Jacob Riis