Progressive Era
What is the amendment that granted women the right to vote?
19th amendment.
Supreme Court case declared the constitutionality of "separate but equal"?
Plessy v. Ferguson
Congress provided free land to settlers in the West, encouraging westward migration.
Homestead act
What was the primary job African Americans could get after Reconstruction?
Sharecropping
Who was the journalist and photographer who exposed the difficult and dangerous conditions in factories?
Jacob Riis
Political reform allowed voters to directly propose and enact legislation.
Initiative
Voting restriction, common in the South, required potential voters to prove they could read and write.
Literacy test
1887 act aimed to assimilate Native Americans by dividing tribal lands
Dawes Act
Obstacles to vote
Literacy test, poll tax, and grandfather clauses
Important innovation for mass production.
Assembly line