Progressivism Sweeps the Nation Chapter 42 Name: ___________________________ Use the Online Textbook http://www.ushistory.org/us/42.

asp to answer all questions fully using complete sentences. 1. What is progressivism?

2. There were three Progressive presidents. Who were they, what political party were they from and what united them?

3. What fueled the progressive movement? Why do you think this was so?

4. What were progressive writings about?

5. How was the new way of thinking Pragmatism different from Social Darwinism?

6. The progressives embraced the political reforms of _______________, _______________, ___________________, and ________________. Most of these reforms were on the state level. Under the governorship of ____________________, Wisconsin became a laboratory for many of these political reforms. 7. The Populist ideas of an ________________ and direct election of ______________ became the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments to the United States Constitution under progressive direction. 8. Who were the Muckrackers? Give examples of at least three and what they did.

9. Suffrage was an important topic to both African Americans as well as women. Why do you think the right to vote was denied to these groups?

10. Who were three important women in the fight for suffrage? What did they do? (hint: you may need to search further than simply the online textbook to answer this question)

11. Which amendment finally granted women the right to vote?

12. At the dawn of the 20th century, nine out of ten African Americans lived in the South. Jim Crow laws of segregation ruled the land. The Supreme Court upheld the power of the Southern states to create two "separate but equal" societies with its 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson opinion. How did this ruling fall far short of equal?

13. Who was Booker T. Washington? How did his views coincide with the views of progressives?

14. How do the views of W.E.B. DuBois contrast with those of Booker T. Washington?

15. Why was the NAACP created? How does its views coincide with those of the progressive movement?

Instant Quiz Complete the Instant Quiz and check your answers. 1. Which of the following does not represent Progressive ideals? 2. Which U.S. president was not involved in the Progressive movement? 3. Ida Tarbell exposed the injustices of which of the following? 4. What happened as a result of Upton Sinclair's publication of The Jungle? 5. What was the first state to grant full women's suffrage? 6. What tactic did the American Woman Suffrage Association (led by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell) use in its fight for women's voting rights? 7. In what year was the 19th Amendment passed? 8. Booker T. Washington believed that African Americans in the South should focus on which of the following? 9. The NAACP was developed in order to