Progressive Era Quiz

Another name to describe the time period between 1890-1920 where America was rapidly progressing in industrial production as well as in social and political reforms.

• Progressive Era

• Assembly line

• Industrial Revolution

• Monopoly

The complete control of an industry by one person or company.

• Free market

• Innovation

• Monopoly

An investigative reporter who published allegations of business and government leaders as corrupt.

• urbanization

• Settlement house

• Muckraker

• Tenement

A law passed in 1890 that prohibited businesses to become monopolies and therefore encourage competition.

• Compromise of 1877

• Child Labor Act

• Trust

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

The policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants

• Immigrantism

• Nativism

• Calvinism

• Sherman Anti-Trust Act

• Fractionalism

Why are monopolies bad?

• They limit competition

• They raise taxes

• They increase jobs

• They raise prices

Who finally won the right to vote in 1919 with the passage of the 19th amendment?

• Renters

• women

• children

• African-Americans

What does Suffrage mean?

• The right to vote

• Protection against false imprisonment

• The right to be taxed

• The suffering of people during war

Which amendment gave women the right to vote?

• 17

• 18

• 19

• 20

Which president was also as Chief Supreme Court justice?

• Abraham Lincoln
• William Howard Taft
• Thomas Jefferson
• Theodore Roosevelt

• William Clinton