Progressives Quiz

Teddy Roosevelt reduced the power of these types of businesses which controlled the American economy?

• horizontal companies

• small businesses
• corporations
• trusts/monopolies

Amendment that allows for income tax. 

• 16
• 17
• 18
• 19

National banking system developed under Wilson to decrease invluence of banking trusts

• Community Banking System
• Federal Reserve
• National Bank
• Pet Banking System

President who created the Federal Reserve and also President during WWI

• Roosevelt

• Taft

• Wilson

• Reagan

What was not a reason the Progressives wanted a change?

• religious prejudice
• business monopolies
• racial prejudice
• environmental distruction

The most significant reform that progressives accomplished at the national level was

• initiative

• direct election of senators (17th Amendment)

• direct primary

• recall

What does Trust-busting mean?

• end discrimination
• stop monopolies (restore competition)
• label ingredients on food and drugs
• election for political offices 

What is suffrage?

• A company that has complete control of an industry
• The right to vote
• The movement to ban alcohol
• Goods that can be traded

The temperance movement

• was anti-domestic violence - men keep their temper
• Was responsible for the women’s right to vote
• Was trying to make alcohol illegal
• Was working to help recent immigrants learn English

 Which of the following was a reform to stop trusts and monopolies?

• Trust Buster Act
• Sherman Progressive Act
• Anti-- trust Progressive Act
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act