Name: __________________________ Progressive Era Webquest (Muckraking, Women’s Suffrage, & Race Relations) Directions: Use the websites below to answer the questions. Type your answers in complete sentences if needed. Progressivism Go to: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42a.asp 1) What was the single greatest movement that fueled the progressive movement? 2) Describe one progressive writer that stirred consciences with controversial treatises. 3) What type of government did progressives want for the betterment of society? 4) What are two Populist ideas that affected the United States Constitution? Which two amendments did they become? Muckrakers Go to: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42b.asp 5) Who were the muckrakers? How did they inform the public? 6) Who was the first Muckraker to publish an article? What did he expose? 7) How did people respond to the book “The Shame of the Cities?” 8) What corruption did Ida Tarbell expose in her series entitled “History of the Standard Oil Company?” 9) Name two publications that exposed corruption in America. What did they reveal? 10) Who exposed the effects of capitalism on workers in the Chicago meatpacking industry? What was the name of his book? 11) What are two things that Sinclair uncovered about meat sold to the general public? 12) What did Congress pass in response to Sinclair exposing the abuses by the meatpacking industry? Women’s Suffrage Go to: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42c.asp 13) What did women demand at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848? 14) Why were many female suffragists upset after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment? 15) Why did some black activists argue against linking black suffrage with female suffrage? 16) What did Stone and Blackwell argue would be the most effective route in achieving female suffrage? 17) What did Anthony and Stanton think would be necessary to achieve female suffrage? 18) Describe two ways the National Women Suffrage Association engaged in headlining grabbing tactics. 19) Which state became the first to grant women’s suffrage in 1869? 20) What did Alice Stone Blackwell want the NWSA and the AWSA to do? What is the name of their new group? 21) Who took turns at the presidency of the NAWSA group? 22) What was passed in 1920 finally allowing women throughout the United States the right to vote? Booker T. Washington Go to: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42d.asp 23) Where did most African Americans live at the dawn of the 20th century? 24) Name the Supreme Court case that allowed Southern states to practice segregation. 25) List four things that reduced the voting black population to almost zero. 26) Who was the progressive reformer that attacked the injustices faced by African Americans? 27) What did Washington establish in Alabama that was aimed to train African Americans? 28) Who was the most famous product of Tuskegee Institute? What did he discover? 29) What did Washington think about this new type of agriculture? 30) What did Washington declare in his speech at the Atlanta Exposition? 31) Why did critics call Washington’s speech the Atlanta Compromise? W.E.B. DuBois Go to: http://www.ushistory.org/us/42e.asp 32) Why was W.E.B. DuBois upset with Booker T. Washington? 33) What did DuBois suggest African Americans focus on instead of vocational skills? Why did he recommend this? 34) What did DuBois think should come first before African Americans could hope to have their fair share of the economic pie? 35) What did DuBois and a group of 30 men draft at Niagara Falls, Canada in 1905? 36) What did members of the Niagara Movement form four years later? What did the organization fight to improve? 37) Why did DuBois move to Ghana in 1961? What did he not live to see?
