Struggle for Reform Answer Key

Chapter 12 Literacy Skill Practice

Practice: Passage 1: speech; Passage 2: interview
Apply: Students should use the Internet to find speeches and interviews about the fight for
women’s rights. Encourage them to look across a wide time span; for example, they may search
for the speeches of Susan B. Anthony and her contemporaries as well as elected female
officials who were involved in the passage of the 19 th amendment, like Jeannette Rankin.

Lesson 1 Quiz
1. C—DOK 1
2. B—DOK 2
3. B—DOK 2
4. A—DOK 3
5. D—DOK 3

Lesson 2 Quiz
1. D—DOK 2
2. B—DOK 3
3. B—DOK 2
4. D—DOK 3
5. D—DOK 2

Lesson 3 Quiz
1. C—DOK 2
2. D—DOK 2
3. C—DOK 3
4. A—DOK 1
5. D—DOK 3

Chapter Test
1. C—DOK 2
2. D—DOK 3
3. B—DOK 1
4. boycott; improved working conditions—DOK 2
5. D—DOK 3
6. B—DOK 2
7. C—DOK 1
8. the Great Migration; African American culture—DOK 2
9. D—DOK 1
10. A—DOK 2
11. A—DOK 3
12. George Washington Carver; farmers—DOK 2
13. D—DOK 3
14. C—DOK 1

Answer Key
15. Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Susan B. Anthony—DOK 1
16. A—DOK 2
17. role of women; enlisted in the armed forces—DOK 2
18. C—DOK 2
19. C—DOK 3
20. A—DOK 2
21. Possible answer: In the 1890s, Mary Harris “Mother” Jones helped coal miners in
Pennsylvania unionize. The quote is referring to how poorly the workers were treated.
Jones is saying that not even the coal that they mine can soften the people that control the
mines.—DOK 3
22. Possible answer: In the early 1900s, there was a group of writers and photographers who
wanted to bring about change in the face of overcrowding, big trusts, child labor, and
dangerous factories. They were called muckrakers. Jacob Riis photographed the terrible
living conditions of many immigrants. Muckrakers focused Americans’ attention on these
issues, and people began to call for change.—DOK 3
23. Possible answer: Louisiana had Jim Crow laws that kept railroad cars segregated. An
African American man named Homer Plessy challenged this law by sitting in a railroad car
reserved for white people. Plessy sued Louisiana. The case was called Plessy v. Ferguson.
In 1896, the Supreme Court ruled that Plessy was guilty. They said that it was legal to
separate the races if the facilities for blacks and whites were equal. This is called the
separate but equal principle.—DOK 3
24. Possible answer: Nat Love was born into slavery. After the Civil War, he headed west and
began looking for work. He ended up in Colorado making $40 a month as a railroad worker.
This was a lot of money at the time. Love’s story is interesting because it is one of hope and
determination.—DOK 3
25. Possible answer: The women in the picture are voting. In 1851, Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton began the “woman suffrage” movement. It was not until almost
70 years later that women got the right to vote when the Nineteenth Amendment was
passed in 1920. Women finally had a voice in their government.—DOK 3

Answer Key