Progressive Era Quiz

Who were the three Progressive Presidents?

• Theodore Roosevelt

• William H. Taft

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Jennings Bryan

What did President Roosevelt call his Progressive programs?

• The Square Deal

• The New Freedom

• The Niagara Movement

• Prohibition

Tell me the three main aspects of President Roosevelt’s “Square Deal” programs.

• Conservation - natural resources and wildlife

• Curbing Corporate Excesses - trust busting and regulating businesses

• Consumer Protection - protecting citizens from unfair or harmful business practices

• Conservative Politics - trying to stop or slow political and social changes in American society

Which of the following are Progressives amendments?

• 13th - the banning of slavery

• 16th - creation of the federal income tax

• 18th - prohibition of alcoholic beverages

• 20th - line of Presidential succession

What two laws were created during the Roosevelt administration to place regulations on the food and drug industries?

• The Meat Inspection Act

• The Clayton Antitrust Act

• Jim Crow Laws

• Pure Food and Drug Act

What was the Clayton Antitrust Act?

• Expanded the Sherman Antitrust Act

• Made monopolies illegal

• The U.S. army would break up strikes if they lasted too long

• Protected labor unions

List the three reforms that some Progressive-led States made to their election laws.

• Initiatives

• Referendum

• Recall

• Segregation

The _________ was a book that caused many in the U.S. to call for greater regulations on the meatpacking industry.

A system put in place by the U.S. Post Office to deliver mail directly to rural homes.

• The Sunday Edition

• The Postal Routes

• The Rural Free Delivery System

• The Catalog Delivery System

What was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)?

• An organization that fought for the equality of blacks and whites in American society

• A group of Progressives that left the Republican Party because of discrimination

• An organization specifically meant to help black women gain the ability to vote.

• A group formed to who wanted to get the first black man elected President during the Progressive Era