U.S. History-8th Grade
Ms. Bailey
Chapter 21: The Progressive Era
(Golden Ticket)
Scoring:
Progress Check
Progress Check
Quality Check
#1: _____ out of 5
#2: _____ out of 5
: _____ out of 10
Directions: Complete the following either on a separate piece of paper, or using notability. Use
your notes, class worksheets, and textbook to come up with correct and detailed responses.
Analyze Break down in order to bring out the essential elements or structure.
Define Give the precise meaning of a word, phrase, concept or physical quantity.
Describe Give a detailed account.
Evaluate Make an appraisal by weighing up the strengths and limitations.
Examine Consider an argument or concept in a way that uncovers the assumptions and
interrelationships of the issue.
Explain Give a detailed account including reasons or causes.
Identify Provide an answer from a number of possibilities.
The Progressive Movement (Section 1)
1. Why do you think the spoils system would lead to inefficient government?
2. How did the muckrakers contribute to the Progressive movement?
3. Why did reformers want regulation of the railroads, and what was the government’s
response?
Women and Progressives (Section 2)
4. Why did the number of working women increase around the turn of the century?
5. How did the motto “Lifting As We Climb” describe the goals of the National Association of
Colored Women?
6. In what ways did middle-class women’s roles change near the end of the 1800s?
7. Why was 1920 a good year for the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment?
8. Why was gaining the right to vote important to women?
Progressive Presidents (Section 3):
9. Why did President Roosevelt use the term “square” to describe his policies?
10. Is the economic system in America today closer to Jefferson’s laissez-faire approach or to
Roosevelt’s square deal?
11. Which candidate would you have voted for in the 1912 presidential election?
12. On what issues did Roosevelt and Taft disagree by 1912?
13. How do you think Roosevelt might have felt about President Wilson’s policies?
Excluded From Reform (Section 4):
14. What effect did discrimination have on Japanese immigrants?
15. How did the Klan’s membership numbers change between 1915 and 1920?
16. What did the Tuskegee Institute teach?
17. What do Well’s findings suggest about the source of the prejudice that led to the lynchings?
18. How did Mexican Americans organize to fight discrimination and violence?
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