Progressive Era Quiz

Choose all the challenges/issues people faced during the progressive era.

• Child Labor

• Women's Rights

• Prohibition

• Slavery

Choose all of the people who were activists for African American's rights during the progressive era.

• Harriet Tubman

• W.E.B Dubois

• Booker T. Washington

• Frederick Douglas

Why did children work in factories and dangerous jobs during the progressive era?

• to have enough money to buy things they wanted

• to survive

• because school didn't exist and they wanted something to do

A major goal of the Progressive movement was to

• stimulate the economy.

• support government control of factory production.

• encourage immigration from southern and eastern Europe.

• correct the economic and social abuses of industrial society.

The goals of muckraking journalists were to

• advertise the economic benefits of industrialization.

• describe and illustrate the problems within American society.

• encourage European immigration through advertising in European newspapers.

• attract rural residents to move into the urban centers.

During the Progressive Era, new amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution. Which amendment number created a national income tax?

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

During the Progressive Era, new amendments were added to the U.S. Constitution. Which amendment number allowed citizens to directly elect senators?

• 14th

• 15th

• 16th

• 17th

In 1906, the United States Congress passed the Meat Inspection Act which allowed government officials to inspect meat sold in interstate trade. What type of reform was this law?

• Grassroots

• State

• National

• International

The NAACP was created to

• promote the rights of African Americans.

• organize ethnic enclaves in large urban centers.

• direct immigrants to helpful services such as locating factory jobs.

• promote settlement of the American Midwest away from large urban centers.

Who was Susan B. Anthony?

• A leader in the women's suffrage movement.

• A muckraker.

• The First Lady of the United States.

• She founded the Hull House.