2024-25 Progressive Era 25 (R)

What is one way the Progressive Era reform of "Initiative" has affected U.S. politics?

• more women have been elected to Congress

• citizens have a more direct influence on lawmaking

• corrupt officials can be removed from office

• primary elections are prohibited in several states

How did the 19th Amendment expand the democratic process?

• by prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of race

• by eliminating the poll tax

• by prohibiting discrimination in voting on the basis of gender

• by lowering the voting age

During the Progressive Era, one goal of state-level political reformers was to--

• prevent party leaders from amending campaign platforms

• increase the influence of business owners on regulatory legislation

• promote the principle of direct democracy

• limit the use of judicial review by circuit judges

Politicians can be removed from office if citizens do not feel they are upholding the duties of the job​ (a)  

• Recall
• Referendum
• Initiative
• Progressivism

People propose new laws and vote on whether those laws should take effect​ (a)  

• Initiative
• Referendum
• Recall
• Progressivism

Voters approve, change, or repeal laws passed by state legislatures​ (a)  

• Referendum
• Initiative
• Recall
• Progressivism

The creation of initiative, referendum, and recall procedures during the Progressive Era resulted in —

• a system of separate schools for new immigrants

• a redistribution of the tax burden among citizens

• more sources of revenue for state governments

• the expansion of citizens’ direct participation in the democratic process

The reform discussed by Governor Johnson in this excerpt--

• required elected officials to communicate regularly with the public

• provided citizens with more resources to run for office

• made elected officials more directly accountable to their constituents

• created new eligibility requirements for candidates for public office

What were photographs such as this one taken by Lewis Hine primarily intended to accomplish?

• encourage leaders to make segregation in schools illegal

• document labor conditions during an economic crisis

• depict the evils of capitalism in communist propaganda

• focus attention on the need for child labor reform

The concept of a "national park" is an American innovation that, in part, grew out of the ​ (a)   movement that began in the nineteenth century. When Yellowstone was designated a national park in 1872, it became the first such park in the world. In 1916, the ​ (b)   officially established the National Park Service, a federal bureau responsible for protecting national parks and monuments.

• conservation
• regulation
• nativism
• feminist
• Organic Act
• Pure Food & Drug Act
• Dawes Act
• Chinese Exclusion Act