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WorksheetsProgressivism
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which outdoorsy President was the first in the White House to fight for Progressive ideals?
a)
William H. Taft
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
William Jennings Bryan
2.
Which President won the 1912 election and pushed his New Freedom policy?
a)
Woodrow Wilson
b)
Theodore Roosevelt
c)
William Jennings Bryan
d)
Mary Miller
3.
Who was known as "The People's Lawyer", and was nominated to the Supreme Court in 1916?
a)
William H. Taft
b)
William Jennings Bryan
c)
Elisha Otis
d)
Louis Brandeis
4.
Theodore Roosevelt demonstrated his support for goals into one campaign package known as what?
a)
The New Deal
b)
The Square Deal
c)
New Freedom
d)
The Box Deal
5.
Which of Wilson's programs strengthened the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and spelled out specific, forbidden activities for Big Businesses?
a)
The Clayton Anti-Trust Act
b)
The Square Deal
c)
The New Deal
d)
The Department of Labor
6.
Which Political Group is considered to be on the "right wing"?
a)
Democrats
b)
Socialists
c)
Republicans
d)
Communists
7.
Which organization set up fair trade laws and enforced the Clayton Anti-Trust Act?
a)
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
b)
the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
c)
The Federal Trade Commission
d)
The Bull Moose Party
8.
Which holding company run by J.P. Morgan was broken up by Teddy Roosevelt?
a)
The Standard Oil Trust
b)
Northern Securities Company
c)
The German Steel Trust
9.
Which event led to Roosevelt demonstrating his ability to compromise through arbitration?
a)
Steel Strike of 1919
b)
Standard Oil Strike
c)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
d)
1902 Coal Strike
10.
Which Election found Theodore Roosevelt running against his past Secretary of War William Howard Taft?
a)
The Election of 1904
b)
The Election of 1912
c)
The Election of 1908
d)
The Election of 1916
11.
Which of these did NOT create laws to benefit women and children?
a)
Children's Bureau
b)
Department of Labor
c)
Federal Reserve Act
d)
the Women's Bureau
12.
Which Supreme Court case led to limited, 10-hour workdays for female laundry workers?
a)
Plessy v. Ferguson
b)
Gitlow v. New York
c)
Muller v. Oregon
d)
Eugene V. Debs
13.
Which legislation required correct labeling of ingredients and strict sanitary conditions?
a)
The Meat Inspection Act
b)
The Federal Reserve Act
c)
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act
d)
The Sixteenth Amerndment
14.
Which amendment required the direct election of senators?
a)
The Sixteenth Amendment
b)
The Seventeenth Amendment
c)
The Eighteenth Amerndment
d)
The Nineteenth Amendment
15.
This act used money from the sales of public lands to build irrigation systems.
a)
The Panama Canal
b)
The Federal Reserve Act
c)
The National Reclamation Act
d)
The Eighteenth Amendment
16.
Which President signed the Underwood Tariff act to reduced the average rates?
a)
President Roosevelt
b)
President Taft
c)
President McKinley
d)
President Wilson
17.
Which act gave the Interstate Commerce Commission the power to regulate telephone/telegraph rates?
a)
The Mann-Elkins Act
b)
The Underwood Tariff
c)
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff
d)
The Roosevelt Corollary
18.
Who of the following was NOT considered a muckraker?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Gifford Pinchot
19.
Which activist pushed for labor reform for both women and children?
a)
Florence Kelley
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Woodrow Wilson
20.
Who wrote "Progress and Povery" and believed the government should charge a tax on the value of land?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Henry George
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
John Muir
21.
Which reform allows citizens to approve or reject a law passed by the legislative?
a)
Recall
b)
Referendum
c)
Initiative
d)
Secret Ballot
22.
Which Idea was created by Robert M. LaFallette and included a public-academic alliance to improve government?
a)
The Square Deal
b)
The New Deal
c)
New Nationalism
d)
The Wisconsin Idea
23.
Which reform allowed citizens to put a proposed new law directly on the ballot by collecting voters' signatures?
a)
Initiative
b)
Referendum
c)
Recall
d)
Secret Ballot
24.
Which novel was written by Upton Sinclair and exploited how disgusting the meat industry was?
a)
The History of Standard Oil
b)
How the Other Half Lives
c)
The Jungle
d)
Looking Backward
25.
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt ran for the Progressive Party otherwise known as what?
a)
The Republican Party
b)
The Progressive Party
c)
The Democratic Party
d)
The Socialist Party
26.
Which reform allows voters to remove public officials from office before the next election?
a)
Secret Ballot
b)
Referendum
c)
Direct Election
d)
Recall
27.
Which radical women's activist endured a series of arrests, imprisonments, hunger strikes, and forced feedings?
a)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Edith Wilson
d)
Alice Paul
28.
Which amendment banned the production, sale, and import of alcohol?
a)
16th amendment
b)
17th amendment
c)
18th amendment
d)
19th amendment
29.
Which act provided a backup system, or "banks for banks", in order to stimulate the economy?
a)
Federal Reserve Act
b)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
c)
Payne-Aldrich Tariff
d)
The Square Deal
30.
Which amendment guarantees a Federal Income Tax?
a)
16th amendment
b)
17th amendment
c)
18 amendment
d)
19 amendment
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