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WorksheetsProgressive Movement Review
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 41mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
True or False: The growth of Big Business was a cause AND an effect of immigration.
a)
True
b)
False
2.
True or False: Immigrants worked for low wages.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller used business practices to create...
a)
Many new jobs
b)
Monopolies
c)
New governments
d)
Raises for immigrants
4.
Andrew Carnegie controlled the _________ industry.
a)
Coal
b)
Steel
c)
Oil
d)
Lumber
5.
John D. Rockefeller controlled the __________ industry.
a)
Coal
b)
Steel
c)
Oil
d)
Lumber
6.
By 1920, the majority of people lived...
a)
In the country
b)
In the city
c)
On farms
d)
In factories
7.
Journalists who exposed the unsafe conditions of factories were called...
a)
Dirtdiggers
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Muskrats
d)
Monkeywrenches
8.
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act...
a)
Allowed monopolies to continue
b)
Took money from monopolies
c)
Said monopolies were unlawful
d)
Made monopolies give money to charity
9.
Roosevelt's anti-monopoly views earned him the name...
a)
"Trust-buster"
b)
"Anti-truster"
c)
"No Monopoly Man"
d)
"Anti-monopoly man"
10.
To protect consumers, President Roosevelt passed...
a)
Laws to inspect clothing for bugs
b)
Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
The Anti-Mold Inspection Act
d)
The Observant Consumer Act
11.
Define suffrage:
a)
Right to laugh
b)
Right to suffer
c)
Right to have safe work
d)
Right to vote
12.
Who would most likely fight for women's rights?
a)
Susan B Anthony AND Harriet Tubman
b)
Jane Adams AND Elizabeth Stanton
c)
Elizabeth Stanton AND Harriet Tubman
d)
Elizabeth Stanton AND Susan B Anthony
13.
Define progressive:
a)
Change in hopes of ruining lives
b)
Change in hopes of bettering lives
14.
What are the three MAIN reforms of the progressive movement?
a)
Drinking, women's rights, parking spaces
b)
Low wages, drinking, work hours
c)
Low wages, safe working conditions, child labor
d)
Friends, family, food
15.
Which Amendment REPEALED the prohibition of alcohol?
a)
18th
b)
19th
c)
21st
d)
20th
16.
Which Amendment gave all women the right to vote?
a)
14th
b)
18th
c)
19th
d)
21st
17.
Which Amendment prohibited the production, buying, and selling of alcohol?
a)
13th
b)
14th
c)
18th
d)
19th
18.
The AFL was...
a)
A national organization of all labor unions in the United States
b)
A job placement agency from immigrants to America
c)
A labor union for children and youth under age 18
d)
A group of American Indians joining together to protest a pipeline
19.
The leader of the the American Federation of Labor was a guy named...
a)
Samuel Gompers
b)
Andrew Carnegie
c)
George Pullman
d)
Spongebob Squarepants
20.
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory incident led to what?
a)
Improved safety conditons, like fire drills, in the workplace
b)
Improved sewing machines for female workers to work faster
c)
Improved health care benefits for women workers having children
d)
Improved transportation to factories so women did not have to miss work
21.
What was the photographer's name who captured many images of child labor?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Anne Geddes
d)
Jane Addams
22.
Which class was the driving force during the Progressive Movement?
a)
Middle
b)
Lower
c)
Upper
d)
Immigrants
23.
Which of the following amendments provided for a graduated income tax (as you make more money you pay a higher percentage of tax) (1913)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19thj
24.
Who was the founder of Hull House, a settlement house?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
25.
Which of the following combinations were the three Progressive Presidents?
a)
Taft, Hayes, T Roosevelt
b)
Wilson, Garfield, Taft
c)
T Roosevelt, Johnson, Morgan
d)
T Roosevelt, Wilson, Taft
26.
Who was co-founder of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored Poeple (NAACP)?
a)
William Haywood
b)
W.E.B DuBois
c)
Ida B Wells
d)
William Mary Tweed
27.
The Seventeenth Amendment allowed....
a)
Americans to vote the way they want to in all elections
b)
women the right to vote
c)
Americans to vote for president
d)
Americans to vote directly for US senators instead of having state legislatures vote for them
28.
Which is the best example of a political machine?
a)
A group of immigrants gather together and demand rights, and better pay
b)
The government breaks apart big businesess
c)
A political organization that uses corruption to buy and cheat votes
d)
A politician asks for donations for his campaign
29.
Why did immigrants support Tammany Hall?
a)
They provided them with shelter, food, and jobs in return for votes
b)
They would use Tammany Hall to learn English
c)
Many women supported them because they supported women's rights
d)
Tammany Hall members were also immigrants
30.
Democrats often saw immigrants as a problem. They believed immigrants were creating ghettos, and taking away jobs from rightful US citizens. These could be called...
a)
Nativists
b)
Factors
c)
Tenements
d)
Americanization
31.
William "Boss" Tweed was known for what?
a)
Controlling elections, and giving favors away to immigrants to stay in control
b)
Robbing banks and then giving the money to the poor
c)
A Republican political machine
d)
A naturalized Irish immigrant that fought for immigrants
32.
Which would a direct cause to the rise of political machines in the US at the time?
a)
Industrialization
b)
Urbanization
c)
Homestead Act
d)
Assimilation
33.
Teddy Roosevelt's plan as President was called the
a)
Square Deal
b)
Fair Deal
c)
New Deal
d)
Universal Deal
34.
The protection of nature and its resources is called what?
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
35.
What does repealed mean?
a)
to agree
b)
to disagree
c)
to cancel
d)
to create
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