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WorksheetsIndustrialization/Progressive Era
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 2hrs 36mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
This is the name of the era most closely associated with the growth of cities and of Big Business
a)
Antebellum
b)
Gilded
c)
Progressive
d)
Reconstruction
2.
Production of what good became cheaper because of the Bessemer Process?
a)
iron
b)
steel
c)
gold
d)
oil
3.
Who invented the lightbulb?
a)
Alexander Graham Bell
b)
Thomas Edison
c)
Albert Einstein
d)
Henry Bessemer
4.
Parts of the country located in or around cities?
a)
urban
b)
rural
c)
suburban
d)
ghettos
5.
Urbanization is the growth of
a)
monopolies
b)
businesses
c)
cities
d)
technology
6.
What was the name of the unsafe and crowded apartments that many immigrants lived in during the Gilded Age?
a)
Slums
b)
Ghettos
c)
Tenements
d)
Shantytown
7.
Which Amendment gave all women the right to vote?
a)
14th
b)
18th
c)
19th
d)
21st
8.
Define suffrage:
a)
Right to laugh
b)
Right to suffer
c)
Right to have safe work
d)
Right to vote
9.
What did the 17th Amendment call for?
a)
Prohibition
b)
Women's suffrage
c)
Direct election of senators
d)
1st Income tax
10.
What was a Muckraker?
a)
A politician who was corrupt.
b)
A factory owner who employed child labor.
c)
An investigative journalist who exposed corruption in society.
d)
An immigrant who lived in a tenement building.
11.
He created the company known as Standard Oil
a)
Andrew Carnegie
b)
Cornelius Vanderbilt
c)
John D. Rockefeller
d)
Thomas Edison
12.
The leader of the union known as the American Federation of Labor
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Terrence Powderly
c)
John P. Morgan
d)
Henry Bessemer
13.
A philanthropist is
a)
a person who studies ancient humans
b)
a person who loves humans and give money to charities
c)
another name for a business owner
d)
a doctor who works on feet
14.
Name for entrepreneurs who use ruthless tactics to destroy competition or to keep wages low
a)
Captain of Industry
b)
Robber Baron
c)
Philanthropist
d)
Consolidator
15.
Who wrote the History of Standard Oil to expose the corrupt business practices of John D. Rockefellar?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
16.
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
17.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
18.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
19.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
20.
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
21.
In The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed
a)
Dangers faced by coal miners
b)
Corrupt business practices of the Standard Oil Company
c)
Unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
d)
Illegal deals between special interests and the government
22.
Which idea of Theodore Roosevelt’s led to the creation of National Parks?
a)
Meat Inspection Act
b)
Preservation
c)
Conservation
d)
Intimidation
23.
Henry Ford is associated with all of the following innovations except
a)
Model T
b)
Assembly Line
c)
Mass Production
d)
Airplanes
24.
Monopolies are bad because they
a)
increase competition
b)
eliminate competition
c)
encourage innovation
d)
take forever to play
25.
Mass production is
a)
the use of interchangeable parts to create cheap, identical products.
b)
the use of machines to create luxury items
c)
when a company controls all levels of production and sales of a product
d)
when Mr. Stell eats too much at a buffet.
26.
What word means to be covered in gold
a)
Urbanized
b)
Gilded
c)
Smolded
d)
Goldfingered
27.
What is called when ONE company owns all parts of production and sale of ONE good or service?
a)
Entrepeneur
b)
Bad Business
c)
Monopoly
d)
Yahtzee!
28.
This time period was meant to fix the "ills of industrialization"
a)
The Great Migration
b)
The Jim Crow Era
c)
Big Business Era
d)
Progressive Era
29.
Which was an effect of urbanization?
a)
Development of Skyscrappers
b)
decrease pollution
c)
immigration
d)
decreased disease
30.
Labor unions are meant to help
a)
child workers only
b)
women workers only
c)
businesses
d)
all workers
31.
Which Progressive is most responsible for the initiative, referendum and recall?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Samuel Gompers
d)
Robert LaFollette
32.
The initiative, referendum, and recall were all meant to increase the power of
a)
political machines
b)
the government
c)
big business
d)
the people
33.
Who is also known as "The Trust Buster?"
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Lewis Hines
34.
Which Progressives is associated with reforming child labor?
a)
Mother Jones/Lewis Hines
b)
Mother Jones/ Jacob Riis
c)
Jacob Riis/ Upton Sinclair
d)
Robert LaFollette/ John Muir
35.
The incident at the Triangle Shirt Waist Factory lead to reforms related to
a)
Water Treatment
b)
Fashion Industry
c)
Fire and Safety Regulations
d)
Monopolies
36.
The work of Jacob Riis lead to changes in
a)
Urban housing regulations
b)
Child Labor
c)
Food Safety regulations
d)
how state senators are elected
37.
The fight for women's rights is most closely associated with which Progressive?
a)
Mother Jones
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Ida B. Wells
d)
Alice Paul
38.
This picture is meant to expose the practices of
a)
the Occoquan Workhouse
b)
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
c)
Carnegie Steel
d)
Chicago Meatpacking Industry
39.
Another term for these people are
a)
White House Witches
b)
Silent Sentiels
c)
Alice Paul's Advocates
d)
Anti-suffragist
40.
The Federal Reserve does all of the following EXCEPT
a)
Give money to banks
b)
regulate the amount of money in circulation
c)
adjust interest rates
d)
collect income taxes
41.
The Pendleton Civil Service Act was created to make sure that
a)
all males over the age of 18 are registered for the draft.
b)
government positions were given to qualified people.
c)
teens could use community service time to decrease college tuition.
d)
banks would not fail.
42.
What was the primary motivation for the passage of the 16th Amendment?
a)
To reduce the power of big business
b)
To create an income tax to raise money for the government
c)
To reduce the gap between rich and poor
d)
To create a war chest to pay for future wars
43.
The phrase, "Under my thumb" is used to describe
a)
an object that is hidden in plain sight.
b)
when someone has complete control over someone/thing else.
c)
a common rule that is known within a given community.
d)
a very familiar situtaion.
44.
The most notorious of the political machines was --------------------in New York City.
a)
Hull House
b)
Pendergast Hall
c)
Daly Machine
d)
Tammany Hall
45.
__________was the most infamous leader of Tammany Hall?
a)
Roscoe Conkling
b)
U.S. Grant
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Boss Tweed
46.
Groups that were led by a powerful boss who controlled politicians were called
a)
Instrument of Change
b)
Bureaucratic Apparatus
c)
Political Machines
d)
Underworld Organizations
47.
Members of political machines often focused on ______________to vote for them by offering services such as jobs, housing, etc.
a)
Immigrants
b)
rural workers
c)
African Americans
d)
Chinese
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