US I Memory Quiz

During the Gilded Age, this caused corruption in government but also improvements in infrastructure and basic services

• Political Machines

• Suffrage Movement

• Railroad Expansion

• Progressive Reforms

What amendment did the member of the Temperance Movement work to pass?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

The best word to describe people like Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, and W.E.B. DuBois would be...?

• industrialist

• political "boss"

• philanthropist

• muckraker

• inventor

What legislation allowed government to regulate and challenge big business and prohibited monopolies?

• The Homestead Act and the Dawes Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act and Interstate Commerce Act

• The 16th and 17th Amendments

• The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food & Drug Act

Americans who were anti-immigration (partly due to fears of losing job opportunities) were called

• Abolitionists

• Suffragists

• Muckrakers

• Nativists

• Populists

This event was a major cause in the push for building codes and regulation of businesses

• Publication of "The Jungle"

• The Homestead Strike

• The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

• The Haymarket Riot

Teddy Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 for...

• Helping rebels in Panama win independence

• Bringing democracy to China

• Making numerous national parks

• Mediating a peace to end the Russo-Chinese War

The Federal Reserve Act of 1913...

• was designed to limit federal power of the economy

• funding used by Roosevelt to pay for progressive programs

• put the power of the federal banking system over to "good trusts"

• created a national banking system and gave the government more power

The progressive era saw a series of Jim Crow laws passed in the South...intended to:

• strengthen previous civil rights legislation

• ensure black sharecroppers were fairly paid

• offer economic incentives to black businesses

• legalize and expand segregation and societal control of blacks

Who listed here was NOT considered a "progressive" president?

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Howard Taft

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Grover Cleveland