Question

16. What was the name of the innovation that brought the most significant change to farming and ranching techniques in the Midwest?
17. What major battle marked the end of the Native American resistance?
18. What was created under Theodore Roosevelt during the Conservation Movement?
Reforms of the Progressive Movement- a. Direct primary b. initiative, referendum, and recall c. Direct election of senators.
19. Looking at the list of reforms listed above, what was the purpose of these reforms?
20. What was the name of the group founded by W.E.B Du Bois that worked to guarantee equal rights for African Americans as listed in the Reconstruction Amendements?
21. What was the name of the system that was intended to suppress African Americans following Reconstruction?
22. What was the purpose of Jane Addams’ Hull House?
23. What was the majority decision made by the Supreme Court in 1896 in the Plessy v Ferguson case?
24. Choose one of the following inventions: Telegraph, Telephone or Electric Light Bulb. Explain how the invention not only impacted US infrastructure, but also changed American Society.

Answer 1

16. Agriculture

17. The Battle of Little Bighorn

18. After becoming president in 1901, Roosevelt used his authority to protect wildlife and public lands by creating the United States Forest Service (USFS)

20. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

21. Disenfranchisement

22. to provide social and educational opportunities for working class people (many of them recent European immigrants) in the surrounding neighborhood.

23. The Court held that the state law was constitutional. In an opinion authored by Justice Henry Billings Brown, the majority upheld state-imposed racial segregation.