Progressive Era Test Review

What did the 19th Amendment guarantee?

• Congress can collect taxes

• Prohibition

• Direct election of U.S. senators

• Women's suffrage (right to vote)

Who said "speak softly and carry a big stick"?

• Woodrow Wilson

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Eugene Debs

• William H. Taft

What was NOT one of the social factors that led to governmental and corporate reform?

• Dangerous working conditions

• Low wages

• Conspiracy theories

• Long work hours

What was a characteristic of the Progressive Era?

• Government reforms to better protect working class Americans

• Paranoia over nuclear aggression

• A downsizing of federal government

• The elimination of income tax

What was the name of the book Upton Sinclair wrote that exposed the meatpacking industry's horrendous conditions?

• The Desert

• The Glacier

• The Jungle

• Meatpacking Exposed

What voting term refers to selecting a candidate from one's own political party to be the nominee in the general election?

• Amendment

• Primary

• Secondary

• Recall

What is the term that refers to a journalist that exposed political and corporate corruption in the Progressive Era?

• Pundit

• Segregationist

• Diplomat

• Muckraker

What civil rights activist thought the push for racial equality should move slowly to avoid severe backlash?

• Booker T. Washington

• W.E.B. Du Bois

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert Kennedy

Who was NOT a women's suffrage activist during the Progressive Era?

• Susan B. Anthony

• Alice Paul

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

• Mary Todd Lincoln

Which amendment gives Congress the power to tax income?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th