Practice Test

Question 1

How did the efforts of Jane Addams differ from the efforts of Lincoln Steffens?

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Addams worked to help immigrants; Steffens worked to reform the government.

Question 2

What was one way Progressives wanted to protect the rights of children?

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by restricting child labor

Question 3

Which best describes why settlement houses offered to help immigrants learn to cook specific kinds of food?

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to encourage them to assimilate into American culture

Question 4

For which of these was Homer Plessy arrested?

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sitting in a "whites only" rail car

Question 5

How did the role of women during World War I affect the suffragist movement?

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Women served as nurses and ambulance drivers during the war, convincing people to support their right to vote.

Question 6

Which best describes Carrie Chapman Catt’s “Winning Plan” to achieve national women's suffrage?

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to win women’s suffrage in as many states as possible while campaigning Congress to pass a constitutional amendment

Question 7

The Progressive movement of the 1800s promoted

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social, economic, and political reforms.

Question 8

Jim Crow laws were a legalized system of

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discrimination against African Americans.

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