Progressivism and Reform — Test Answers

What sentence best summarizes the quotation?

Populists believed that bankers, landowners, and political parties

The government’s continuous changing of Indigenous people policy caused

In the late 1800s and early 1900s, reformers helped immigrants assimilate into American culture by

One of the main problems with the Indian reservation system was that government agents

Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities . "My purpose was...to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride." Which of the following best describes Steffens' purpose in writing about government?

In the early 1800s, female reformers focused on the issue(s) of:

Which of these did the Interstate Commerce Act ban in 1887?

Which of these women’s rights advocates fought for women’s suffrage, abolishment of slavery, and co-authored the Declaration of Sentiments declaring that women were created equal with men?

Which best describes William Jennings Bryan’s political experience?

In 1867, one way many American farmers responded to the difficulties they faced was to

Which best illustrates a direct consequence of the social gospel movement?

Read the quotation by Theodore Roosevelt.. “There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed . . . The men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society.” According to this quotation, which best describes Roosevelt's view on journalism?

What was one provision of the Dawes Act of 1887?

In both the sharecropping system and crop-lien system, many farmers in the late 1800s

When were Jim Crow laws first legislated and enforced on Black people?

Which best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

Which reform measure could voters use if they wanted to change a law about taxes?

Read the quote from Applied Christianity: Moral Aspects of Social Questions by Washington Gladden. “In every community there are men of goodwill, who, if they had the money, could organize [efforts] among the [poorest] classes by which many of them could be saved...” Who are the “men of goodwill” that Gladden describes?

Read the quotation from Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities . "My purpose was . . . to see if the shameful facts, spread out in all their shame, would not burn through our civic shamelessness and set fire to American pride." According to Steffens, what was the purpose of muckraking journalism?