ROOTS OF PROGRESSIVISM
SEGREGATION
Period 5 timeline
topic 5.2 and 5.3
period 4
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One principle of progressivism was its strong belief that _______.
scientific principles could alleviate social problems
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Formerly enslaved African Americans who moved to Kansas in 1879 were known as _______
Exodusters.
1
Begining of the Mexican-American War
1846
1
contributed most significantly to a surge in western settlement during the 1860s and 1870s?
The expansion of railroads made the Great Plains more accessible
1
The belief in White cultural and political superiority
of intense religious zeal created during the Second Great Awakening
2
Journalists who exposed corruption and terrible social conditions were called _______.
muckrakers
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How did Southern states erode African American voting rights?
by imposing poll taxes and literacy tests
2
U.S. Civil War Begins
1861
2
The United States gained what from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 ?
Possession of California and most of the Southwest
2
the activists who attended the Seneca Falls Convention called for?
expanded women's rights
3
How did Governor La Follette reform the political party system in Wisconsin?
He helped pass a law requiring direct selection of political candidates through a primary.
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The laws passed by Southern states that enforced discrimination based on race were known as _______
Jim Crow laws.
3
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
1863
3
The Wilmot Proviso specifically provided for
the prohibition of slavery in lands acquired from Mexico in the Mexican War
3
The American Colonization Society was established in the early nineteenth century with the goal of
transporting African Americans to Africa
4
What three political reforms did progressives push for in state legislatures to make elected officials more responsive to voters?
the initiative, the referendum, and the recall
4
What phrase did the Supreme Court use when it legalized segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson?
that African Americans could be "separate but equal"
4
Lincoln Assassinated
1865
4
Feature
Question refers to the map below.
Question
The acquisition of territory in the southwestern region shown in the map intensified controversies in the United States about
allowing slavery in the new territories
4
William Lloyd Garrison established a newspaper that advocated which issues?
Abolition of slavery
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What was the primary concern of female progressives?
woman suffrage
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Who led a boycott against department stores in Washington, D.C., that refused to serve African Americans?
Mary Church Terrell
5
Presiden Johnson impeached
1868
5
Question
What was a common justification in the United States for the trend depicted in the map?
The belief in White cultural and political superiority
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Throughout the first half of the nineteenth century, women reformers were most active in the cause of
Temperance