APUSH - Progressive Era Laws and Amendments

This Amendment in 1913 required that the more money a citizen made, the higher the income tax they had to pay.

• 15th Amendment

• 11th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 12th Amendment

The manufacturing (making) and sale of alcohol was made illegal. Which word matches the definition?

• Prohibition

• Amendment

• Federalism

• Checks and balances

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

• 19th Amendment

The period between 1900 to 1920 where people wanted to achieve progress by correcting political and economic problems that came about from the Industrial Revolution is known as...

• Progressive Era Movement

• Federalism

• Checks and Balances

• Separation of Power

Which amendment gave people the right to elect two representatives in the Senate to serve for six years each?

• 15th Amendment

• 16th Amendment

• 17th Amendment

• 18th Amendment

Which president wanted to control businesses and conserve the environment?

• William McKinley

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

During the early 1900s, the term "muckrakers" was used to describe-

• pacifists who demonstrated against war

• Politicians who criticized Progressive Era presidents

• Writers who exposed the evil in American society

• Newspaper columnists who reported in celebrities

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are most closely associated with the idea that-

• Settlement houses should be built to help educate immigrants
• National Parks should be created by the federal government
• factories should be prohibited since they damage society
• suffrage should be granted to women

The Progressive Movement supported the idea that the federal government should-

• Reduce the number of farms
• Build an overseas empire
• Regulate big business
• Reduce immigration

The initiative, the referendum, and the recall were adopted by several states during the Progressive Era as ways to-

• restrict the use of presidential vetoes
• promote the formation of trusts
• make government more democratic
• limit immigration