The Progressive Era — Test Answers

Recalls, referendums, and initiatives were primarily designed to bring power to

Supporters of the spoils system claimed it made government more efficient because like-minded individuals cooperated. Opponents claimed it made government less efficient because

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?

Read the quotation by Theodore Roosevelt.. “There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed . . . The men with the muck rakes are often indispensable to the well-being of society.” According to this quotation, which best describes Roosevelt's view on journalism?