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Progressive Era Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
  Which groups influenced the  Pure Food and Drug Act?
a)
muckrakers and women's organizations
b)
college students
c)
farmers and pastors
d)
unions and lawyers
2.
Laissez-faire means
a)

government regulation of business

b)
government owns businesses
c)
government does not interfere with business
d)
government only controls food industry
3.

What is the significance of initiative, recall, and referendum?*

a)

increase power to the citizens

b)

expand voting rights to the Chinese

c)

expand suffrage to women

d)

low interest rate loans to farmers

4.
A modern day muckraker would be a:
a)
police man/woman
b)
politician
c)
farmer
d)
reporter/journalist
5.

What did the Sherman Anti-Trust Law accomplish?

a)

allowed businesses to open overseas

b)

allowed trusts to expand

c)

forced businesses to share profits with workers

d)

government dissolves monopolies

6.
What is W.E.B. DuBois greatest accomplishment?
a)
creation of NAACP
b)
creation of SNCC
c)
creation of vocational education
d)
creation of Tuskegee Institute
7.

How did Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle contribute to a change in the relationship between government and business?

a)

government worked to end child labor

b)

federal troops ended Coal Strike

c)

increased food regulations

d)

break up of railroad monopolies

8.
Which of these is most associated with the muckrakers?
a)
womens suffrage
b)
a graduated income tax
c)
creation of National Park Service
d)
creation of Meat Inspection Act
9.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony are best known for

a)

popular singing duo

b)

fighting lynching

c)

settlement houses in Chicago

d)

women's suffrage

10.
One reform of state-level political reformers was to—
a)
increase direct democracy
b)
government break up of monopolies
c)
allow donations to finance campaigns
d)
eliminate judicial review by judges
11.

Ida B. Wells is known for

a)

fighting for voting rights of Californians

b)

fighting lynching and equality

c)

vocational education

d)

settlement houses in Chicago

12.
What is the 19th Amendment?
a)
creation of income tax
b)
direct election of Senators
c)
prohibition (banning of alcohol)
d)
women's suffrage
13.

1916 is important for what reason?

a)

creation of National Park Service

b)

Independence Day

c)

creation of Navy

d)

Voting Rights for Native Americans

14.
Reformers of the Progressive Era wanted to reduce corruption in government by creating an amendment that provided for—
a)
 Voting rights for African Americans
b)
term limits for Congress
c)
2 terms for the President
d)
direct election of Senators
15.
What might a monopoly do?
a)
lower prices and pass the savings on to the customer
b)
lower prices then buy the competition out, then raise prices 
c)
raise prices and force the government to bail them out 
d)
work with competition to be fair 
16.
Prohibition of Alcohol
a)
16th Amendment
b)
17th Amendment
c)
18th Amendment
d)
19th Amendment
17.

Act that stopped the growth of monopolies with clear language about big business

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Meat Inspection Act

c)

Silva Aguero Act

d)

Pure Food & Drug Act

18.
What is NOT a political reform goal of the Progressive Era?
a)
Initiative
b)
Veto
c)
Referendum
d)
Recall
19.

"The Jungle" - Exposes conditions of meatpacking industry

a)

Lincoln Steffens

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Jane Adams

d)

Upton Sinclair

20.

This is an election where the voters can remove an elected official

a)

Referendum

b)

Direct Primary

c)

Recall