FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES 14

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIAL STUDIES 14

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Question 1: goals of promoting moral improvement

Answer:

Womens Christian Temperence Union. Prohibition. Members advanced by saloons, signings, praying and urging to stop selling alcohol. They used public roles to justify giving women rights.

Question 2: define temerance

Answer:

the refraining from alcohol consumption

Question 3: What are some topics the Muckracker journalists exposed?

Answer:

unsafe working conditions, such as child labor, unsafe products, and political corruption Question 4: By the end of the 20th century millions received the education they needed but American Americans were shut out of public schools and colleges. What was this?

Answer:

racial discrimination was still around

Question 5: What started to demand attention and led to the end of the Progressive Era?

Answer:

World War I Question 6: How did the implementation of Jim Crow laws and the decision in Plessy vs.Ferguson affect the civil rights of African Americans?

Answer:

They deprived African Americans of civil rights and they weren't treated equally and made things harder due to segregation.

Question 7: How did World War I help women get the right to vote?

Answer:

they knitted socks for soldiers and sold liberty bonds to help with the war and then asked for their right to vote in return for their help Question 8: What was the Progressive Party candidates's (Roosevelt) position on big business?

Answer:

supported government action to supervise big business but did not oppose all big business monopolies

Question 9: What were Muckrakers

Answer:

a nickname for journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines in the early 20th century.

Question 10: Name at least three jobs women started to hold around 1900.

Answer:

• plow and plant the fields

• book keeping and stenographers

• office, stores, and classrooms

Question 11: Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

Answer:

19th amendment

Question 12: What three things led women to start fighting for reforms?

Answer:

• clubs where they talked about issues.

• they became educated

• they targeted work place and housing reform

Question 13: What was the impact of the 17th amendment (direct election of senators)?

Answer:

senators were forced to be more responsive to the public, limited the power of the state political machines, and more states started allowing votes to nominate senatorial candidates.Question 14: Blacks also faced informal rules and customs that regulated relationships and belittled and humiliated them. What were these customs called?

Answer:

racial etiquette rules Question 15: Why did southern states start adopting systems of racial discrimination?

Answer:

they wanted to weaken African American political power Question 16: Name at least two other groups that faced discrimination in the American West.

Answer:

Chinese immigrants & native americans

Question 17: Explain President Roosevelt's Square Deal.

Answer:

it is used to describe the reforms. Protect people from big businesses and by creating programs to help people. He made a lot of laws to help people.Question 18: Summarize the political problems and corruption cities faced in the industrial age.

Answer:

Political bosses rewarded supporters with jobs and kickbacks and the also bought votes for favors and bribes.

Question 19: name come successes of the movement for election reforms

Answer:

The initiative and referendum gave citizens power to create laws. By the next election in 1812, all states had adopted a secret ballot to help stop voter corruption

Question 20: name some successes of the movement to reform local government.

Answer:

exports (not those hired by corrupt politicians) took charge of a different city department and soon Galveston was rebuilt.Question 21: What three developments help women finally see success with their movement for the right to vote.

Answer:

• the increased activism of local educated groups

• the use of bold new strategies to build enthusiasm for the movement like protests and strikes

• the rebirth of the national movement

Question 22: What were Jim Crow laws?

Answer:

laws to enforce racial segregation and a system of racial oppression Question 23: What was the Socialist Party candidates's (Debs) position on big business?

Answer:

He hated big businesses and felt that it was unfair to the workers there.Question 24: What causes Roosevelt to enact measures to conserve the natural environment?

Answer:

He didn't believe that American resources were endless and his friend John convinced him to make conservation acts.Question 25: Women earned half as much as men but also their wages were the legal property of their husband. Eventually they were allowed to gain property. For women, gaining property rights was just one victory in a new ___

Answer:

push for equality.