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WorksheetsProgressive Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 18mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
2.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
3.
Who was the leader of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) which fought for workers rights?
a)
Eugene Debs
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Samuel Gompers
d)
Upton Sinclair
4.
The founder of the NAACP who encouraged African Americans to fight to end segregation
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
George Washington Carver
c)
WEB Dubois
d)
Upton Sinclair
5.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
6.
The founder of the Tuskegee Institute which promoted a vocational education for African Americans to get job skills
a)
Booker T. Washington
b)
George Washington Carver
c)
W.E.B Dubois
d)
Upton Sinclair
7.
Which act was rushed to Congress and passed shortly after the publication of Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle in 1906?
a)
Federal Reserve Act
b)
Clayton Antitrust Act
c)
Australian Ballot Act
d)
Meat Inspection Act
8.
Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the lower class lived?
a)
Alexander Bell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
9.
What is suffrage?
a)
Freedom of speech
b)
Right to bear arms
c)
Right to vote
d)
Torture
10.
How did the labor unions win workplace victories such as reduced working hours?
a)
Bribery
b)
Voting
c)
Strikes
d)
Petitions
11.
Refers to the period of time that reformers worked to fix the problems in American society
a)
Industrial Revolution
b)
Progressive Movement
c)
Civil Service Act
d)
Prohibition
12.
Leader of the women's suffrage movement and instrumental in getting the 19th Amendment passed
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Mother Jones
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
13.
Name of the push to ban alcohol in the United States
a)
Temperance Movement
b)
18th Amendment
c)
21st Amendment
d)
Prohibition
14.
Which of the following believed in full political, civil, and social rights for African Americans?
a)
William Lloyd Douglas
b)
W.E.B. Du Bois
c)
George Washington
d)
Booker T. Washington
15.
Reporters, journalists, photographers, and authors who used the media to raise concerns about the negative effects of industrialization were known as
a)
muckrakers
b)
suffragists
c)
immigrants
d)
abolitionists
16.
How did Boss Tweed and other political bosses maintain their power in cities?
a)
By helping immigrants to get their votes
b)
By discriminating against immmigrants
c)
By pushing to end segregation
d)
By becoming muckrakers
17.
What contributed to the rise of organized labor unions?
a)
The negative effects of industrialization
b)
More immigrants coming to the U.S.
c)
Good treatment by factory owners
d)
The growth of cities
18.
What group of people finally were granted citizenship in 1924 (even thought they were born in America!)
a)
American Indians
b)
Jewish People
c)
German Immigrants
d)
African Americans
19.
The following image is an example of-
a)
Segregation
b)
Political Corruption
c)
Urbanization
d)
Racial Equality
20.
Political cartoonist who exposed Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall political machine.
a)
Jane Adams
b)
Thomas Nast
c)
Mark Twain
d)
Upton Sinclair
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