WGU ACADEMY US HISTORY MIDTERM TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND COMPLETE ANSWERS

WGU ACADEMY US HISTORY MIDTERM
TEST PAPER FULL QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE ANSWERS

⩥ Muckrakers.
Answer: Journalists who exposed corruption and social injustice in the
early 1900s.


⩥ General Federation of Women's Clubs.
Answer: National organization promoting civic improvement and
women's education.


⩥ National Association of Colored Women.
Answer: Founded in 1896 to promote racial uplift and women's rights;
motto "Lifting as We Climb."


⩥ Jane Addams.
Answer: Founded Hull House; leader in settlement movement and social
reform.


⩥ Women's Trade Union League.
Answer: Supported women workers and unions; alliance of laborers and
reformers.

, ⩥ National American Woman Suffrage Association.
Answer: Moderate suffrage group; fought state by state for the vote.


⩥ National Woman's Party.
Answer: Radical suffrage group led by Alice Paul; used protests and
hunger strikes.


⩥ Alice Paul.
Answer: Leader of NWP; fought for 19th Amendment using militant
tactics.


⩥ Nineteenth Amendment.
Answer: 1920; granted women the right to vote.


⩥ Reconstruction.
Answer: Post-Civil War era rebuilding the South and integrating freed
slaves.


⩥ Black Codes.
Answer: Laws restricting rights of freed African Americans after the
Civil War.