Chpt 18 The Progressive Era

1. The muckrakers were

• politicians
• journalists
• business owners

2. During the Progressive Era, government became

• smaller and less powerful
• uninterested in reform
• more active

3. One of the goals of the Progressive Era was

• encourage sweatshops for children
• not give women the right to vote
• reduce government corruption

4. The political social reform movement that included new labor laws, improvements to city life and prohibition was known as...

• Progressivism
• Prohibitionism
• Urbanism

5. On the federal level, President Theodore Roosevelt worked to protect

• political machines
• monopolies
• the environment

6. In the 1912 presidential election, Roosevelt was nominated by the

• Socialist party
• Progressive party
• Democratic party

President Wilson supported reforms that gave more power to

• African Americans
• women
• labor unions

8. Which of these describes civil disobedience?

• refusal to break the law
• violent protests
• nonviolent refusal to obey a law

9. Many Americans began to support women's suffrage as a result of the

• Open Door policy
• election of Woodrow Wilson
• important roles played by women during World War I

10. The last great reforms of the Progressive Era that gave women the right to vote was the

• First Amendment
• Eighteenth Amendment
• Nineteenth Amendment