Progressive Era Test Review

Many Progressive reformers targeted city officials who build corrupt organizations called

• Trusts

• Municipal Services

• Commissions

• Political Machines

Which event led to the formation of the NAACP

• The Plessy v. Ferguson decision

• The first meeting of the Niagara Movement

• The 1908 Springfield riot

Which reforms resulted from the fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory?

• Antitrust legislation

• Workers' compensation and safety laws

• The spread of settlement houses

• A ban on child labor

Theodore Roosevelt proposed the Square Deal to

• Increase the power of railroads to set their own rates

• Keep the wealthy from taking advantage of small business owners

• Convince Americans of the need to end Spanish influence in Cuba

• Reform the corrupt government of the state of NY

Which political party did Wilson represent in the 1912 election

• The Republican Party

• The Progressive Party

• The Democratic Party

• The Congressional Government Party

For what purpose was the Women's Christian Temperance Union formed?

• To improve workers' conditions

• To gain universal voting rights

• To become a third political party

• To protect the home and ban liquor

The Federal Reserve Act placed National Banks under the control of the

• Treasury Department

• Federal Reserve Board

• Federal Trade Commission

• Interstate Commerce Commission

Socially conscious journalists who dramatized the need for reform were known as

• Muckrakers

• Social Gospelists

• Novelists

• Yellow Journalists

The 19th Amendment ensured

• "Separate but equal"

• Prohibition

• Women's right to vote

• Fair elections

In the late 1800s, ____________ photographed tenement buildings in which the urban poor lived.

• Florence Kelly

• Jacob Riis

• Alice Paul

• Jane Addams