Progressive Era Test Review

The statements above describe reactions to the passage of what amendment?

• 14th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

A student learning about U.S. history is instructed to write a paper about W. E. B. Du Bois and race relations in the United States. Which of the following facts would be most relevant to the student’s assignment?

• The Selma-to-Montgomery protest marches helped secure voting rights for minority citizens.

• The NAACP was organized to help secure full legal equality for minority citizens.

• The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed many forms of discrimination in the housing market.

• The March on Washington helped rally nationwide support for the Civil Rights movement.

According to the excerpt above, Susan B. Anthony believed the only way for women to acquire the “blessings of liberty” was by —

• voting in elections

• working in factories

• becoming missionaries

• studying economics

After reading the book excerpted above, President Theodore Roosevelt asked the U.S. Congress to —

• halt production at meatpacking plants

• pass a law calling for closer regulation of food quality

• fund research to find a cure for tuberculosis

• pass a law to limit work hours in meatpacking plants

During the Progressive Era, one goal of state-level political reformers was to —

• prevent party leaders from amending campaign platforms

• increase the influence of business owners on regulatory legislation

• promote the principle of direct democracy

• limit the use of judicial review by circuit courts

How did the Nineteenth Amendment expand the democratic process?

• By prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of race

• By eliminating the poll tax

• By prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of gender

• By lowering the voting age

In response to public concern over issues raised by Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, the federal government expanded its role in —

• working with labor unions to increase worker salaries

• taking responsibility for the safety of consumers

• setting limits on the growth of private industry

• implementing social welfare programs

Which of the following is the most important impact of muckrakers?

• Muckrakers contributed to the popular literature of the early 20th century.

• Muckrakers made people aware of social and political problems.

• Muckrakers contributed to the rise of yellow journalism.

• Muckrakers produced personal journals that give modern readers an excellent picture of life in the early 20th century.

One way the U.S. government responded to the problems caused by the conditions in this list was by —

• passing the Interstate Commerce Act

• implementing the silver standard for currency

• creating a federal jobs program for the unemployed

• establishing a new tax on capital gains

What led President Roosevelt to become an advocate for government oversight by

supporting the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906?

• Allegations of unsanitary conditions in the meat packing plants.

• A salmonella outbreak in New York City.

• A rat infestation in the meat processing plants in Detroit.

• The reported abuses in the chicken processing plants in Arkansas.