Name_________________________________  

1. Explain how kickbacks worked.

 
 
 
 
 
 

2. How did many cities attempt to make government more honest and efficient?

 
 
 
 
 

3. Which presidents tried but were unable to change the spoils system?

 
 
 
 
 

4. __________________________________ believed that the government should own and operate the nation’s resources and major industries.

 

5. Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell, and Upton Sinclair were all _________________________ who exposed corruption and unfair or unsafe practices in politics and business.

 

6. What was the purpose of primaries, initiative, referendum, recall, and the direct election of senators in the United States?

 
 
 
 
 

7. Before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, in which part of the country were women most likely allowed to vote?  Where were they least likely to be allowed to vote?

 
 
 
 
 

8. How did Woodrow Wilson’s position on women’s suffrage change?

 

9. What were the reasons that people supported a prohibition amendment?

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

10. Which party was split in the Election of 1912?  Who won the election?  Which party did he belong to?

 
 
 
 
 
 

11. Which Supreme Court decision allowed separate but equal segregation?  What was segregation like in reality?

 
 
 
 
 
 

12. The _______________________________ wanted to restore white, Protestant America, and targeted African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.

 
 

13. Which African American leader believed that African Americans should become educated in order to become valued members of the community?