Author Question: Progressive reformers believed the primary purpose of public education was to: A) assimilate new ... (Read 231 times)

Starlight · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

The Uprising of the 20,000 illustrated the collective power of:

A) working class miners.
B) working class women and middle-class reformers and suffragists.
C) the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League.
D) residents of company towns.

Question 2

New immigrants from 19001914 were MOST likely to be employed in:

A) low-paid backbreaking work in industry.
B) medicine and the professions.
C) commercial agriculture.
D) railroads and mining.

Question 3

Which of the following would be the MOST LIKELY new immigrant to enter the United States in 1905?

A) an Australian farmer
B) a German scientist
C) a young unskilled Asian female
D) a single unskilled Italian male

Question 4

The most important trend in public education during the Progressive era was:

A) making college attendance almost universal.
B) expansion and bureaucratization of school systems.
C) a strict concentration on basic grammar school skills.
D) respecting the cultural diversity of students.

Question 5

Progressive reformers believed the primary purpose of public education was to:

A) assimilate new immigrants.
B) create an aristocracy of the able.
C) prepare immigrant children for college.
D) allow the poor and the rich to mingle in a democratic manner.