WorksheetsProgressive Era Vocabulary
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Journalists who exposed the corrupt side of business and public life in the early 1900s.
a)
Senators
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Abolitionists
d)
None of the above
2.
What term means "the ban of selling alcohol".
a)
Prohibition
b)
Reform
c)
progressive
d)
Temperance Movement
3.
___________ is the procedure whereby voters can remove an elected official from office.
a)
conservationist
b)
19th amendment
c)
Prohibition
d)
Recall
4.
Which amendment banned the sale and consumption of alcohol?
a)
18th amendment
b)
19th amendment
c)
17th amendment
d)
16th amendment
5.
Which amendment provided the direct election of senators?
a)
18th amendment
b)
16th amendment
c)
17th amendment
d)
19th amendment
6.
Which amendment gave women the right to vote?
a)
18th amendment
b)
19th amendment
c)
16th amendment
d)
17th amendment
7.
A person who takes an active part in the protection of the environment is called _________?
a)
recall
b)
progressive
c)
Conservationist
8.
The movement to ban alcohol
a)
spoils system
b)
temperance movement
c)
political machine
9.
What is Civil Service?
a)
the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
b)
an act that gave women the right to vote
c)
a system that includes most government jobs, except elected positions, the judiciary, and the military
d)
a process that allows voters to remove an elected official
10.
An election in which voters, rather than party leaders, choose their party’s candidate is called a
a)
primary
b)
secondary
c)
recall
d)
amendment
11.
What is the term for the process that allows voters to put a bill before a state legislature.
a)
recall
b)
referendum
c)
cancellation
d)
initiative
12.
What is a referendum?
a)
A way for people to get someone out of office
b)
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law
c)
A way to make an amendement
d)
A change in journalism
13.
What is a trustbuster?
a)
a person working to destroy monopolies and trusts
b)
a person who lied through journal entries
c)
a person who built trusts
d)
a person who ran for office
14.
Define spoils system.
a)
the practice of rewarding political supporters with government jobs
b)
various progressive reforms
c)
It gave Congress the power to pass an income tax, was ratified in 1913
d)
A way for people to vote directly on a proposed new law
15.
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
16.
Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies
a)
Sherman Antitrust Act
b)
Sherman Antimonopoly Act
c)
Sherman Shortly Act
d)
Sherman No Business Act
17.
How did the labor unions win workplace victories such as reduced working hours?
a)
Bribery
b)
Voting
c)
Strikes
d)
Petitions
18.
Suffrage means the right to _______________.
a)
own a firearm
b)
vote in political elections
c)
practice your religion
d)
free speech
19.
__________________ cheated New York out of more than $100 Million.
a)
Major Daley
b)
Obama
c)
Boss Tweed
d)
Muckrakers
20.
Graduated Income Tax is...
a)
Taxing laws that allow people to opt out of paying taxes.
b)
A system of taxing people who don't work.
c)
Taxes you pay after you graduate college.
d)
A method of taxing people at different rates depending on income. Wealthy pay more, poor pay less.
21.
Natural areas protected and managed by the federal government...
a)
The Jungle
b)
National Parks
c)
Capital Cities
d)
Civil Service
22.
Covered in a thin layer of gold.
a)
Gilded
b)
Stainless steel
c)
Paved
d)
Temperance
23.
Fought for the good of all people...
a)
Trump
b)
Political machines
c)
Progressives
d)
Government
24.
Banking system of the United States...
a)
Chase Bank
b)
Federal Reserve
c)
National Deficit
d)
Graduated income tax
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