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WorksheetsProgressive Era Review
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
The youngest president in US history.
a)
JFK
b)
Franklin Roosevelt
c)
Barack Obama
d)
Teddy Roosevelt
2.
Which amendment guarantees women the right to vote?
a)
16th Amendment
b)
4th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
14th Amendment
3.
What are the best connections for 19th Amendment?
a)
women's suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, National Women's Party
b)
direct election of Senators, expand democracy
c)
prohibition, temperance
d)
income tax
4.
What are the best connections for Direct Participation in Democracy ?
a)
initiative, referendum, recall
b)
Homestead Act, Dawes Act, Morrill Act
c)
Sherman Antitrust Act, Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Interstate Commerce Act, Fair railroad rates
5.
What are the best connections for WEB Dubois ?
a)
NAACP, education and voting participation
b)
vocational training for African Americans
c)
The Jungle, meatpacking, Pure Food and Drug
d)
women's suffrage, 19th Amendment
6.
Reformers who believed that human intervention was a necessity for change.
a)
Muckrakers
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Progressives
d)
Grange
7.
Journalists who wrote to expose the bad things in society.
a)
Progressives
b)
Imperialists
c)
Whistle Blowers
d)
Muckrakers
8.
What are the best connections for Upton Sinclair ?
a)
The Jungle, Meatpacking, Pure Food and Drug
b)
anti-lynching, NAACP
c)
anti-lynching, NAACP
d)
Social Gospel, settlement house movement
9.
Payments made to a worker who was injured on the job are known as:
a)
Workers Compensation
b)
Blank Checks
c)
Laissez Faire
d)
Aflack
10.
Women's Christian Temperance Union fought for this:
a)
Suffrage
b)
Progressivism
c)
Populists
d)
Prohibition
11.
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
12.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
13.
Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?
a)
WEB Du Bois
b)
Marcus Garvey
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Nat Turner
14.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)
People have the right to remove a politician from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government
15.
Which of the following is a Referendum?
a)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose their own law
d)
Any law passed by the government can be voted on for approval or veto by the people
16.
Which of the following is a Recall?
a)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
b)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto
17.
This person helped to found the NAACP
a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
18.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
· 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
19.
To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
20.
Banned people from making, transporting or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
21.
Main immigration processing center on the East Coast.
a)
Angel Island
b)
Ellis Island
c)
Checkpoint Charlie
d)
Boston
22.
Political Party made up of Northern Farmers in the 1890s to unify farmers.
a)
Cooperatives
b)
Grange
c)
Populists
d)
Republicans
23.
The progressives did not focus on:
a)
Child labor laws
b)
African American rights
c)
Unsanitary food packing
d)
Slum/poor conditions
24.
Monopolies form when a company
a)
Gains complete control of an industry
b)
increases competition
c)
sells all of their business to the government
d)
refuses to hire union workers
25.
What was Progressivism?
a)
set of responses to problems in society
b)
group of people moving to rural areas
c)
collection of big businesses
d)
politicians who believe in imperialism
26.
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
27.
What happened when Susan voted in a presidential election?
a)
Nothing
b)
She was arrested and fined 100 dollars
c)
She ran away
d)
She was allowed to vote
28.
Which of the following was one thing that Roosevelt did as part of his conservation efforts?
a)
Formed the US Forest Service
b)
Formed National Parks
c)
Put land into wildlife preserves
d)
All of the above
29.
Who chose candidates in a Direct Primary?
a)
Other politicians
b)
Chosen by state governors
c)
Politcal bosses
d)
They were chosen by the people
30.
What is trust busting?
a)
When monopolies grow stronger
b)
The breaking up of monopolies into smaller companies
c)
Beating up people who support monopolies
d)
Breaking someones trust and thus they will never be your friend again.
31.
which of the following amendments allow voters to elect senators?
a)
16th amendment
b)
17th amendment
c)
18th amendment
d)
19th amendment
32.
One of the major goals of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 was to
a)
limit the amount of sugar in snack products.
b)
protect farmers from bankruptcy due to changing food prices.
c)
control the price put on beverages and food products.
d)
ensure that products were labeled accurately.
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