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What was one way Progressives wanted to regulate railroads?

by limiting the fees railroads could charge for carrying freight

by limiting the number of states through which railroads could travel

by determining the wages paid to railroad workers

by determining the amount of taxes the railroads had to pay

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The government crushed the Dakota Sioux rebellion by

killing the entire Dakota tribe.

killing four hundred Dakota tribe members.

sending ambassadors to negotiate.

capturing and hanging tribe members.

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

isolating them from American citizens.

separating them from their family members.

teaching them how to speak English.

teaching them foreign languages.

Booker T. Washington believed that African American accommodation to segregation should be accompanied by

resistance to discriminatory laws .

hard work, education, and patience.

insistence on support from the government.

peaceful challenges to daily injustices.

Jim Crow laws were designed to

prevent African Americans from gaining equality.

support the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.

uphold the Fourteenth Amendment.

help Africans Americans gain equality

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