1. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
Homesteader: Farmer
Muckraker: Journalist
2. How did the 17th Amendment give more political power to the individual voter? Direct Election of Senators
3. What was the most important effect of the progressive era?
Reforms of initiatives, referendums and recall.

2. 4. What is the theory behind the Sherman Antitrust Act?
5. Fill in the Blank
Social Darwinism: __________________
Nativism: Birth to the KKK
Red Scare: Deportation of Communists
6. The issue of unemployment and declining wages on the West Coast led to what foreign policy

3. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
7. All of the following are true about the Federal Reserve Act of 1913
created the central banking system in the U.S.
granted legal authority to issue legal tender
created a system that still regulates U.S. monetary policy
8. John Muir : ____________ :
Upton Sinclair : ____________
National Parks Service
Pure Food and Drug Act
9. How did the writing of W.E.B. DuBois affect American society?
It pushed Americans to think differently and act differently towards African Americans.

4. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
10. The activism of Susan B. Anthony impacted American government because it led to the passage of the—
11. Which of the following amendments would Alexander Hamilton, a strong federal government advocate, MOST have supported?
16th, 17th, 18th, or 19th
12. What was the first large scale effort of the U.S. government to regulate business for the public good?
Answers:
th Amendment- Women’s Suffrage (Right to Vote)
th Amendment- Income Tax
12. Interstate Commerce Commision

5. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
13. What could account for a change in rural and urban populations during a time period?
14. Put the following President’s in Chronological Order:
Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Howard Taft
15. Urban Social Reform in the 1800’s most associated with what person?

6. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
16. Many progressives hoped to make American government better able to serve the people’s needs by making government operations and services more efficient and rational.
17. What might have been an unintended consequence of progressive’s attempts to streamline the government?
18. Industrialism.

7. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all noncitizen Indians born within the territorial limits of the United States be, and they are hereby, declared to be citizens of the United States: Provided, That the granting of such citizenship shall not in any manner impair or otherwise affect the right of any Indian to tribal or other property.
American Indian Citizenship Act, 1924
19. Why would the above act have made some American Indians question its motives?
20. What Political party is described below?
Established in 1890s
Members were mostly southern and western farmers
Mainly opposed banks, railroads, and upper classes
Efforts resulted in hurting AfricanAmerican suffrage
21. The Progressive Era being identified as a ____________ in U.S. history because it had all of the following:
The distinctive feature of reform that is present throughout the time period
a set of prominent historical events that changed society
economic activity that is significant in the time sequence

8. Unit 2 Thinkers U.S. History
22. What methods were used to gain voting rights for women?
PUBLIC PROTESTS
AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION (19th)
That was the Last Unit 2 Thinker. We will test on Tuesday next week.