Progressive Era Quiz

What does "suffrage" mean?

• The right to suffer

• The right to vote

• The right to bear arms

• The right to free speech

19th amendment

• provided for direct election of senators

• gave women the right to vote

• gave the right to redress (protest)

• Gave the right to bear arms

18th amendment (Prohibition)

• made the manufacture and sale of alcohol illegal

• limited the president to two terms

• gave the right to an attorney and fair trial

• Outlawed slavery in the United States

Urbanization is...

• Movement of people from rural areas to cities

• An immigrant receiving station that opened in 1892

• A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

• moving the nation's water and timber resources

Muckrakers were...

• political bosses

• elected officials

• titans of industry

• journalists who searched for corruption in politics and big business

What act/law was used to break up monopolies?

• National Park Service

• Inflation Reduction Act

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Trust Buster Act

In his book The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the horrors of what industry?

• The meat packing industry

• The housing industry

• railroads

• banks

Tenements

• A run-down and often overcrowded apartment house, especially in a poor section of a large city.

• A political, environmental and a social movement that seeks to protect natural resources including animal and plant species as well as their habitat for the future

• Prohibition of buying, selling, or consuming alcohol

• banned interstate shipping of impure food and deliberate mishandling of food and drugs

Identify the three progressive presidents of the Progressive Era.

• George Washington, John Addams, Thomas Jefferson

• Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy

• Jimmy Carter, Donald Trump, Joe Biden

• Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson

African Americans during the Progressive Era (Gilded Age) were most impacted by...

• conservation efforts

• the spoils system

• discrimination and segregation

• trustbusting