WorksheetsLMHS US EOC Review - Unit 5 - Populism & Progressive Era
Total questions: 34
Worksheet time: 38mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the Federal Reserve in charge of?
a)
Interest rates on loans
b)
Monitoring all of the countries banks to ensure they are making good decisions
c)
Creating the money that citizens of the US use
d)
Administering a test for potential bank employees
2.
Pictures like this would have been discussed in what book?
a)
The Jungle
b)
History of the Standard Oil Company
c)
The Shame of the Cities
d)
How the Other Half Lives
3.
What was the purpose of Muckrakers?
a)
Writers who wanted to make money by selling newspapers
b)
Writers who wanted to cause change with their writings
c)
Writers who supported big business and corruption in politics
d)
Writers who wrote patriotic short stories
4.
August 1920; the amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote.
a)
19th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
21st Amendment
d)
20th Amendment
5.
Reporters and journalists who reported on corrupt politicians and other problems in society, for example, Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle about the gruesome details of the meatpacking industry; Thomas Nast’s cartoons ruined Boss Tweed
a)
muckrakers
b)
carpetbaggers
c)
scalawags
d)
dirtdiggers
6.
A political party formed in 1891 mostly by farmers & members of labor unions who demanded government help with falling farm prices, regulation of railroad rates, and free silver (more money to be put in circulation)
a)
Progressive
b)
Populist
c)
Bull Moose
d)
Republican
7.
An election in which voters choose their party’s candidate
a)
initiative
b)
recall
c)
primary
d)
referendum
8.
The right that enables voters to remove unsatisfactory elected officials from office
a)
primary
b)
referendum
c)
initiative
d)
recall
9.
A person who campaigned for women’s right to vote such as: Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Carrie Chapman Catt, and Alice Paul
a)
suffragist
b)
temperance crusader
c)
abolitionist
d)
muckraker
10.
August 1920; the amendment to the constitution that gave women the right to vote.
a)
19th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
21st Amendment
d)
20th Amendment
11.
What Amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
Amendment 2
b)
Amendment 1
c)
Amendment 19
d)
Amendment 11
12.
Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?
a)
Alexander Bell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
13.
Author of the "The Jungle", which exposed the horrors of the meatpacking industry.
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Robert La Follette
d)
Frances Willard
14.
Term given to growth of cities
a)
urbanization
b)
muckracker
c)
tenement
d)
industrialization
15.
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Upton Sinclair
16.
Who wrote the muckraking attack on Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
17.
Who was the radical Social Progressive arrested for advoating the use of contraceptives?
a)
Alice Paul
b)
Margaret Sanger
c)
Judith Sargent Murray
d)
Carrie Chapman Catt
18.
Which of the following was not a Progressive Era president?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Theodeore Rosoevelt
d)
William Howard Taft
19.
Which Constitutional amendment provided for Prohibition (conservative social progressives)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
20.
Which Progressive President was given the nickname of the "trustbuster"?
a)
Taft
b)
Wilson
c)
T Roosevelt
d)
Obama
21.
Members of which group most likely to belong to Populist Party?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Farmers
c)
Industrialists
d)
Immigrants
22.
Main topic of William Jennings Bryan's 1896 Cross of Gold Speech?
a)
Fighting growing influence of business trusts
b)
Changing government's monetary policy
c)
Ending tax-free status of religious institutions
d)
Providing federal aid to poor families
23.
Which received LEAST attention among Progressive policymakers?
a)
Food and Drug purity
b)
Racial equality
c)
Fair labor practices
d)
Antitrust reforms
24.
Main goal of most muckraking journalists?
a)
Gain fame through articles of high popular interest
b)
Expose socioeconomic problems in need of political attention
c)
Increase public awareness of America's great potential
d)
End corrupt relationships between politicians and big business
25.
What cause was primary focus of Susan B. Anthony's activism?
a)
Immigration
b)
Labor
c)
Public education
d)
Women's suffrage
26.
Who gave the "Cross of Gold" speech?
a)
Willaim McKinley
b)
William Henry Harrison
c)
Marcus Hannah
d)
William Jennings Bryan
27.
Who was the Populist/Democratic candidate for President?
a)
Andrew Jackson
b)
Grover Cleveland
c)
William Jennings Bryan
d)
William McKinley
28.
What antin monopoly law provided for regulation of the railroads (1887 - before the Progressive Era)
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
29.
This act outlawed interstate transportation of impure or diluted foods and the deliberate mislabeling of foods and drugs
a)
Meat Inspection Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Sherman Antitrust Act
30.
A period of widespread social activism and political reform across the United States, from the 1890s to 1920s
a)
Progressive Era
b)
Great Depression
c)
Enlightenment
d)
Imperialism
31.
Which group would most likely belong to the Populist Party?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Farmers
c)
A factory or business owner
d)
New immigrants
32.
Which of following most closely associated with Populist Party?
a)
Jane Addams
b)
William Jennings Bryan
c)
Eugene Debs
d)
Samuel Gompers
33.
Most Grange members would have been committed to which policy?
a)
Regulation of railroads
b)
Subsidies for producers
c)
Quotas on immigration
d)
Restriction of imports
34.
Main topic of William Jennings Bryan's 1896 Cross of Gold Speech?
a)
Fighting growing influence of business trusts
b)
Changing government's monetary policy
c)
Ending tax-free status of religious institutions
d)
Providing federal aid to poor families
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