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Progressives Quiz

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Teddy Roosevelt reduced the power of these types of businesses which controlled the American economy?
a)

horizontal companies

b)
small businesses
c)
corporations
d)

trusts/monopolies

2.
Amendment that allows for income tax. 
a)
16
b)
17
c)
18
d)
19
3.
National banking system developed under Wilson to decrease invluence of banking trusts
a)
Community Banking System
b)
Federal Reserve
c)
National Bank
d)
Pet Banking System
4.

President who created the Federal Reserve and also President during WWI

a)

Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

d)

Reagan

5.
What was not a reason the Progressives wanted a change?
a)
religious prejudice
b)
business monopolies
c)
racial prejudice
d)
environmental distruction
6.

The most significant reform that progressives accomplished at the national level was

a)

initiative

b)

direct election of senators (17th Amendment)

c)

direct primary

d)

recall

7.
What does Trust-busting mean?
a)
end discrimination
b)
stop monopolies (restore competition)
c)
label ingredients on food and drugs
d)
election for political offices 
8.
What is suffrage?
a)
A company that has complete control of an industry
b)
The right to vote
c)
The movement to ban alcohol
d)
Goods that can be traded
9.
The temperance movement
a)
was anti-domestic violence - men keep their temper
b)
Was responsible for the women’s right to vote
c)
Was trying to make alcohol illegal
d)
Was working to help recent immigrants learn English
10.
 Which of the following was a reform to stop trusts and monopolies?
a)
Trust Buster Act
b)
Sherman Progressive Act
c)
Anti-- trust Progressive Act
d)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
11.

 President Wilson (really it was Roosevelt's dream but legislation happened under Wilson) promoted conservation by

a)
setting aside land for factories
b)
setting aside land for National parks
c)
reduce, recycle, reuse
d)
passing strong laws against pollution
12.
Which of the following would be most relevant to a student writing a paper on W.E.B. DuBois?
a)
The Selma-to-Montgomery protest marches to secure voting rights.
b)
The NAACP was organized to help secure full legal equality for minorities.
c)
The Civil Rights Act of 1968 outlawed many forms of discrimination.
d)
The March on Washington helped rally nationwide support for the Civil Rights movement.
13.
Members of which group most likely to belong to Populist Party?
a)
Anarchists
b)
Farmers
c)
Industrialists
d)
Immigrants
14.
Which law helped lower train prices for farmers who faced unfair competition from the robber barons?
a)
Meat Inspection Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Interstate Commerce Act
d)
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
15.
Wrote about lynchings in the South to bring attention to the crime.
a)
Susan B Anthony
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Francis WIllard
d)
Ida B Wells
16.
Journalists who expose the corruption and problem in society and government--
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
settlement house supporters
d)
none of the above
17.
What nickname did Roosevelt get after breaking up monopolies with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act?
a)
Trustbuster
b)
Monopolybuster
c)
Theodore Roosevelt Destroyer of Trusts
d)
Slayer of trusts and eradicator of monopolies
18.
Initiatives enabled voters to ...
a)
Seek work
b)
Move from state to state
c)
Propose laws
19.
This is an election where the voters can remove an elected official
a)
Referendum
b)
Direct Primary
c)
Recall
20.
This allowed voters to approve or disapprove a proposed law
a)
Referendum
b)
Direct Primary
c)
Recall
21.
This law banned harmful medical products and false medical claims.
a)
Pure Food and Drug Act
b)
Food Inspection Act
c)
Meat Inspection Act
d)
Pure Food Analysis Act
22.
Populists wanted to replace gold with what metal?
a)
Copper
b)
Bronze
c)
Platinum
d)
Silver
23.
How did WEB Dubois try to help African-Americans?
a)
creating the Tuskegee Institute
b)
creating the NAACP civil rights group
c)
writing the Jungle
d)
writing about lynchings in the South
24.
Wrote about lynchings in the South to bring attention to the crime.
a)
Susan B Anthony
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Francis WIllard
d)
Ida B Wells
25.
Which Amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
18
b)
19
c)
20
d)
21
26.

Which Progressive Era muckraker’s book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?

a)

Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives

b)

Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities

c)

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle

d)

Frank Norris’s The Octopus

27.

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

a)

a system of separate schools for new immigrants

b)

the expansion of citizens’ direct participation in the democratic process

c)

a redistribution of the tax burden among citizens

d)

more sources of revenue for state governments

28.

The preamble of the Federal Constitution says: “We, the people of the United States…” It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people women as well as men.


Which Progressive reformer made the statement above and what was the impact of his/her work?

a)

Ida Wells = Anti-lynching laws

b)

Ida Tarbell = Equal pay for women

c)

W.E.B. DuBois = Anti-segregation laws

d)

Susan B. Anthony = The 19th Amendment

29.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
 ·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?
a)
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
b)
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
c)
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
d)
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class

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