Social Reform in the Progressive Era

Question 1

What role did Frances Willard play in the Progressive movement?

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C: She served as the president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

Question 2

Who was the founder of Hull House in Chicago, Illinois?

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B: Jane Addams

Question 3

Jane Addams’s work most actively assisted

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C: immigrants who spoke little English and knew few people in their new home.

Question 4

How did the temperance movement directly influence the prohibition of alcohol in the United States?

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C: It worked for the passage of the 18th Amendment.

Question 5

Which reforms did Horace Mann and other education reformers want to achieve? Select three options.free college educationexpanded private schoolsfree schools for all childrenmandatory education for alluniversal public school system

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C: free schools for all children; D: mandatory education for all; E: universal public school system

Question 6

Who were the Muckrakers?

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A: writers who worked to reform aspects of society

Question 7

Which societal issue did Jacob Riis work to expose?

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A: living conditions of the poor

Question 8

Read the quote from John D. Rockefeller.When Prohibition was introduced, I hoped that it would be widely supported by public opinion and the day would soon come when the evil effects of alcohol would be recognised. I have slowly and reluctantly come to believe that this has not been the result. Instead, drinking has generally increased; the speakeasy has replaced the saloon; a vast army of lawbreakers has appeared; many of our best citizens have openly ignored Prohibition; respect for the law has been greatly lessened; and crime has increased to a level never seen before.–John D. Rockefeller, letter to The New York Times, 1932

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A: Prohibition failed to accomplish its goal.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from How the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis.One, two, three beds are there, if the old boxes and heaps of foul straw can be called by that name; a broken stove with crazy pipe from which the smoke leaks at every joint, a table of rough boards propped up on boxes, piles of rubbish in the corner. The closeness and smell are appalling. How many people sleep here? The woman with the red bandanna shakes her head sullenly, but the bare-legged girl with the bright face counts on her fingers—five, six! "Six, sir!” Six grown people and five children. "Only five,” she says with a smile, swathing the little one on her lap in its cruel bandage. There is another in the cradle.

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C: overcrowding

Question 10

Study the graph showing child labor statistics.

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D: Child labor was on the rise until people began fighting for the welfare of children.

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