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WorksheetsThe Reformers
Total questions: 69
Worksheet time: 1hrs 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What was the IMMEDIATE result of Alice Paul and other suffragists’ picketing in front of the White House?
a)
The women were arrested and later starved to death
b)
The women gained the attention of the president and a new amendment was proposed
c)
the women were arrested and went on a hunger strike in jail
d)
no one paid attention and the cause went away for another 70 years
2.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Frank Norris
3.
Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices.
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
4.
Which of the following Progressive Era leader fought for workers' rights, including better pay, shorter hours, safer working conditions, and to end child labor?
a)
Alice Paul
b)
Robert La Follette
c)
Mother Jones
d)
W.E.B. Du Bois
5.
Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities.
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Frank Norris
6.
Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods.
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Frances Willard
d)
Susan B Anthony
7.
Abolitionist & fought for women’s rights. She was an escaped slave that traveled the country speaking for the abolition of slavery, and is most famous for her, “Ain’t I a Woman” speech.
a)
Sojourner Truth
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Dorothea Dix
8.
Fought for women’s rights & abolition. Formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association, organized the Seneca Falls Convention in New York, and helped write the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments.”
a)
Dorothea Dix
b)
Carrie Nation
c)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
d)
Harriet Tubman
9.
What event was the event held to promote women’s rights in 1848?
a)
The March on Washington
b)
The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
c)
The Rally in Hyde Park
d)
The Seneca Falls Concention
10.
Reform means to -
a)
change something in order to improve it
b)
cause widespread destruction
c)
move to a different country permanently
d)
start an economic bidding war
11.
Which important document in American history was used a model for the Declaration of Sentiments?
a)
The Declaration of Independence
b)
Mayflower Compacy
c)
Common Sense
d)
Articles of Confederation
12.
This was organized in New York in 1848 by women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in order to show that women had a lack of equality and opportunity in America.
a)
Seneca Falls Convention
b)
Constitutional Convention
13.
the right to vote
a)
Republicanism
b)
Sufferage
c)
Democracy
14.
the right for women to vote
a)
Women's Suffrage
b)
Women's Prohibition
c)
Women's Rights
15.
held in NY to launch the women's Rights Movement
a)
Women's Rights Movement
b)
Seneca Falls Convention
c)
Underground Railroad
d)
Prohibition
16.
What did the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution do?
a)
Granted women the right to vote
b)
Outlawed slavery
c)
Banned the sale of alcohol
d)
Repealed the 18th Amendment
17.
What is "suffrage"?
a)
The right to bear arms
b)
The right to drink alcohol
c)
The right to end suffering
d)
The right to vote
18.
I was born a slave but escaped. I became an abolitionist and also worked toward women’s rights, who am I?
a)
Harriet Tubman
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Sojourner Truth
d)
Frederick Douglass
19.
This was organized in New York in 1848 by women such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in order to show that women had a lack of equality and opportunity in America.
a)
Seneca Falls Convention
b)
Constitutional Convention
20.
Which statement best describes a result of industrialization in the United States during the mid-nineteenth century?
a)
A. People moved to cities in search of economic opportunity.
b)
B. Farmers began to cultivate land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
c)
C. Native peoples were forcibly relocated to western territories.
d)
D. Government officials began to promote the idea of Manifest Destiny.
21.
How did the Industrial Revolution affect the cities?
a)
Made the crime rate decrease
b)
Led to an increase in farm workers
c)
Make the cities cleaner and safer
d)
Led to an increase in population in the cities
22.
Before the Industrial Revolution all products were created by
a)
Factories
b)
Hand
c)
Slaves
d)
Royalty
23.
Mass production led to:
a)
Products being more superior in quality
b)
goods became less expensive
c)
laborers received higher wages
d)
industries moved to rural areas
24.
What event was the event held to promote women’s rights in 1848?
a)
The March on Washington
b)
The Sarah Childress Polk Meeting
c)
The Rally in Hyde Park
d)
The Seneca Falls Convention
25.
The ____ Amendment gave women the right to vote.
a)
16
b)
19
c)
18
d)
13
26.
Why did Elizabeth Cady Stanton oppose the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution?
a)
Public education was not addressed.
b)
Women were still excluded from voting.
c)
Slavery was still allowed in the territories.
d)
Native Americans gained citizenship.
27.
Sojourner Truth was...
a)
a abolitionist and women's right activist
b)
a pastor during the 2nd Great Awkening.
c)
the first women to earn a degree from Harvard.
d)
founded the first utopia.
28.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
29.
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
30.
What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?
a)
Banned the use of assembly lines
b)
Allowed the government to have unlimited power
c)
Cleaned up food producing factories
d)
Advocated for minority groups
31.
Suffrage refers to:
a)
Discrimination
b)
Women’s Rights
c)
The Right To Vote
d)
The Denial of Voting
32.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
33.
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
34.
This event was one major factor leading to the need for building codes and government regulation of businesses
a)
Haymarket Riot
b)
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
c)
founding of the Tuskegee Institute
d)
attempted assassination of President Garfield
35.
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
36.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
37.
The Jungle (1906) : investigated and exposed the horrid conditions at meatpacking plant
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Frank Norris
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Thomas Nest
38.
"History of Standard Oil Company" in McClure's magazine : exposes the ruthless tactics of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company through series of published articles
a)
Lincoln Steffens
b)
Thomas Nest
c)
Ida B. Well
d)
Ida Tarbell
39.
How the Other Half Lives (1890) : Living conditions of an urban poor; focused on exposing horrific conditions in tenements
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Upton Sinclair
c)
Frank Norris
d)
Jacob Riis
40.
Co-founder of Hull Houses- which was an all-purpose community center for poor immigrant people living in crowded city neighborhoods.
a)
Jane Addams
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Frances Willard
d)
Susan B Anthony
41.
Wrote “History of the Standard Oil Company,” in 1902. Showed how Rockefeller’s rise was based on ruthless business practices.
a)
Ida B. Wells
b)
Ida Tarbell
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
42.
1906- Wrote The Jungle which exposed the conditions in the U.S. meat packing industry. (Helped pass the Pure Food and Drug Act)
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Frank Norris
43.
Photographed conditions of the urban poor in “How the Other Half Lives.” Examined the conditions of the poor in America’s cities.
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Frank Norris
44.
They are crusading journalists who investigated social conditions and political corruption.
a)
Activists
b)
Reformers
c)
Politicians
d)
Muckrakers
45.
Led the National American Woman Suffrage Association with Susan B. Anthony.
a)
Susan B. Anthony
b)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c)
Jane Addams
d)
Ida B. Wells
46.
Muckrakers were
a)
progressive reformers who sought legal changes to problems
b)
politicians who passed laws cleaning up the "muck" in society
c)
governors who wanted to get rid of monopolies
d)
journalists who wrote about the problems in society
47.
Which Muckraker exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book 'The Jungle'?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Ida Tarbell
48.
What was a result of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Pure Food and Drug Act
c)
Sherman Anti Trust Act
d)
none of the above
49.
What was a result of Ida Tarbell's work?
a)
The Pure Food and Drug Act was passed.
b)
People discovered the conditions of the poor in urban areas.
c)
Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company was prosecuted under the Sherman Anti-trust Act
d)
none of the above
50.
Where did the character "Jurgen" in Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle" work?
a)
Meat packing factory
b)
Steel mill
c)
the Senate
d)
Market
51.
Journalists who exposed practices of monopolies and big business
a)
Gump Mushers
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Scalawags
d)
Dirt Diggers
52.
Suffrage refers to:
a)
Discrimination
b)
Women’s Rights
c)
The Right To Vote
d)
The Denial of Voting
53.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
54.
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
55.
a situation in which workers refuse to work until their demands are met
a)
boycott
b)
strike
c)
trust
56.
a large group of companies that join together to drive other companies out of business
a)
boycott
b)
strike
c)
trust
57.
protecting and saving wilderness
a)
muckrakers
b)
progressives
c)
conservation
d)
strikebreakers
58.
Why did people want to reform (change) child labor?
a)
Children needed to stay at home and take care of the household
b)
People wanted their children to work in factories
c)
Children often worked long hours in dangerous factory conditions for very little money
59.
Factory owners used child labor because children...
a)
Read better than their parents
b)
Are more efficient than other workers
c)
Can be paid less than adults
d)
Needed jobs to support parent
60.
The 19th Amendment passed in 1920:
a)
prohibited alcohol in the US
b)
ended slavery
c)
gave women the right of suffrage
d)
created a Federal Income Tax
61.
The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to
a)
break up monopolies
b)
give equal rights to women
c)
help people living in poverty
d)
end racism
62.
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
63.
Took photos of workers as he documented the construction of the Empire State Building
a)
Mathew Brady
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Lewis Hine
d)
Robert Capa
64.
Would sneak into factories by posing as a fire inspector, insurance agent, among other disguises to take pictures of children working.
a)
Mathew Brady
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Lewis Hine
d)
James Nachtwey
65.
Documented the plight of child workers
a)
Dorothea Lange
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Lewis Hine
d)
James Nachtwey
66.
This famous famous conservationist was also the 26th president of the United States.
a)
John J Audobon
b)
Gifford Pinchot
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Izaak Walton
67.
This conservationists actions were responsible for saving this beautiful valley.
a)
Susquehanna Valley/Rachel Carson
b)
Yosemite valley/John Muir
c)
Death Valley/Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Matanuska-Susitna/John Audubon
68.
This conservationist was a 2 term governor of Pennsylvania and the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service.
a)
John Muir
b)
Gifford Pinchot
c)
Theodore Roosevelt
d)
Izaak Walton
69.
How did the US government react to women who protested outside of the White House?
a)
They shot tear gas into the crowd
b)
They arrested the women
c)
They sympathized and fed the women
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