Expanding Borders Answers

What impact did Sinclair’s book have on the era of Progressive reform?

Which of the following best describes the main way that Upton Sinclair gathered research for The Jungle?

Which of the following was a reason that Roosevelt sued the Northern Securities Company?

The court case Plessy v. Ferguson challenged the legality of

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

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 of the following best describes Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony?

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

Who received benefits from settlement houses in the late 1800s and early 1900s?

In the Muller v. Oregon case of 1908, the Supreme Court

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

Look at the graphic below.Which phrase best fits in the blank box?

In 1954, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education

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

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?

Why did the Interstate Commerce Commission have difficulty enforcing reforms?

How did the 1840 World’s Anti-Slavery Convention affect the women’s suffrage movement?

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

What was one way Progressives wanted to regulate railroads?

Look at the political cartoon below. According to this political cartoon, “The Open Road,” who is on the road to liberty, equality, and justice?