CHAPTER 8-- Progressive Reforms TEST REVIEW

10 point assignment

MULTIPLE CHOICE          The following topics are where the multiple choice questions will come from.

 

1.        At the national level, what was the most significant reform from this era?

2.        List and know the charges made by Florence Kelley against child labor.

3.        Why did colleges develop social science departments in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

4.        How were populists and progressives alike?

5.        Why do most immigrants settle in cities after 1880?

6.        List the ways in which education changed as a result of progressive reform.

7.        How did  the Muller v Oregon Supreme Court case represent a change in how the courts evaluated their decisions?

8.        What did Upton Sinclair base his novel The Jungle on?

9.        What did the state railroad commission established in Wisconsin by La Follette accomplish?

10.     List the reforms that were advocated by the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in the late 1800s?

11.     In terms of living in cities, how did the racial prejudice of most whites in American cities in the late 1800s and early 1900s affect African Americans?

12.     List the benefits that trusts brought.  List the problems they brought.

 

 

STUDY YOUR MAP--- There will be five questions on the map that relate to NJ.  (similar to quiz)

 

Matching        The following people will be on the test in the form of matching.  You need to be very familiar with these people and what they did and what they are most known for.              

John Dewey

Florence Kelley

Louis Brandeis

Jacob Riis

Jane Addams

Upton Sinclair

Ida Tarbell

Walter Rauschenbusch

Ida B. Wells

Lester Ward

Robert La Follette

Frances Willard

Margaret Sanger

 

 

 

THIS IS THE ACTUAL ESSAY       10 point question. 

 

Define what a muckracker was (2 points).  List three specific muckrakers that were mentioned in the chapter and what they were known for (3 points).  Discuss in detail the single muckraker that you felt had the biggest influence.  Be sure to explain exactly how they had the biggest influence (5 points).