WorksheetsProgressive Era Quiz
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which of the following describes the tenements that were typical of many urban areas in the early twentieth century?
a)
Government-subsidized housing for the poor
b)
Modern and sleek no-frills apartments that housed poor families
c)
Buildings that housed many families in cramped, airless apartments
d)
Light-manufacturing factories prevalent in many urban warehouse districts
2.
Around 1900, if an ordinary American city dweller, whether immigrant or native-born, needed a favor done by a person with authority, he or she would have most likely turned to whom?
a)
A newspaper columnist
b)
An alderman or ward boss
c)
An ombudsman
d)
A member of Congress
3.
The City Beautiful movement is associated with which of the following activities?
a)
Efforts to clean up the mud rivers created by spring rains in many cities
b)
Attempts to clean up the tremendous air pollution that hung in the air of many cities
c)
Attempts to build more and better urban park spaces, including playgrounds and gardens
d)
Efforts by municipal commissioners to preserve green space in rapidly expanding industrial cities
4.
The settlement houses that emerged in early twentieth-century cities established which new occupational field?
a)
Midwifery
b)
Social Work
c)
Early Childhood Education
d)
Political bureaucrat
5.
Why was the New York legislation dealing with safety in factories and wages-and-hour laws for women and children was enacted?
a)
Anthracite Coal Strike
b)
Danbury Hatters Boycott
c)
Niagara Movement
d)
Triangle Shirtwaist fire
6.
Which of the following describes the urban political machines of the late nineteenth century?
a)
They mediated between municipal governments and state and federal governments.
b)
Machines acted as social service agencies, providing assistance in times of trouble.
c)
Political machines were an obstacle to the creation of urban infrastructure.
d)
They protected American city-dwellers from powerful economic interests.
7.
What did women like Jane Addams seek to provide to the working-class people they served through settlement houses in early twentieth century cities?
a)
The resources and political voice they needed to improve their lives
b)
Lessons on American history to help recent immigrants assimilate
c)
A stronger sense of “civic enterprise and moral conviction”
d)
Art classes and other cultural programs to expand their minds
8.
Why was Margaret Sanger’s newspaper column “What Every Girl Should Know” significant?
a)
The column educated girls and women about the dangers of prostitution.
b)
It contributed to launching a national birth control movement.
c)
Sanger linked the practice of “treating” with sexually transmitted diseases.
d)
It publicized the notion that women as well as men could attend college.
9.
What spurred the U.S. Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906?
a)
A horrific yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee, that killed 12 percent of its people
b)
The publication of Leona Prall Groetzinger’s expose titled “The City’s Perils”
c)
High infant mortality rates that resulted from the widespread problem of adulterated milk
d)
A public uproar caused by Upton Sinclair’s realist novel The Jungle
10.
The prominent political movements between the end of Reconstruction and World War I ignored which of the following goals?
a)
Limiting the power of big business
b)
Ameliorating poverty
c)
Promoting social justice
d)
Bringing full equality to blacks
11.
The Pendleton Act of 1883
a)
created the Civil Service Commission, which filled some government jobs by examination.
b)
provided temporary benefits for families left without their breadwinner.
c)
gave financial assistance to elderly Americans living in poverty.
d)
created pensions for the families of disabled workers.
12.
Which of the following was the first federal law ever passed to regulate trusts?
a)
Sherman Antitrust Ac
b)
Pendleton Act
c)
Interstate Commerce Act
d)
Clayton Antitrust Act
13.
In their 1892 Omaha Platform, Populists called for
a)
women’s suffrage.
b)
public ownership of factories.
c)
federal income tax
d)
a tighter monetary policy.
14.
To bring big coal companies to the negotiating table during the 1902 coal strike, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to
a)
arrest and jail the companies’ workers and owners.
b)
nationalize the coal companies.
c)
promote the use of natural gas nationwide.
d)
institute a federal minimum wage.
15.
In a landmark decision regarding the Northern Securities Company, the U.S. Supreme Court
a)
declared the Sherman Antitrust Act unconstitutional.
b)
declared unconstitutional the establishment of the Bureau of Corporations.
c)
ordered the Northern Securities Company railroad trust dissolved.
d)
ruled that the Justice Department did not have the legal authority to sue to break up trusts.
16.
After Roosevelt won the presidency in his own right in 1904, he did which of the following?
a)
Began a campaign to nationalize most large corporations
b)
Instituted efforts to change the size and composition of the Supreme Court
c)
Created a new program to transform the country’s approach to corporate law
d)
Implemented his Square Deal by stepping up his attacks on American trusts
17.
Which of the following was promoted by Republican governor Robert La Follette (1901–1905) as the Wisconsin Idea?
a)
Greater government intervention in the economy
b)
Smaller government with less intervention in the economy
c)
Expanded voting rights for all men and women
d)
Government subsidies to encourage the growth of corporations
18.
In the early 1900s, the Industrial Workers of the World were committed to achieving
a)
government regulation of trusts.
b)
wage and hour concessions for workers.
c)
a new society run by and for workers.
d)
support for the American Federation of Labor.
19.
In general, progressives differed from labor and farm advocates because the progressives
a)
were mostly middle-class urban reformers.
b)
were often more radical.
c)
generally had less success on the national level.
d)
were part of a much more unified and cohesive movement.
20.
Which of the following describes both the reform movements in the 1880s and the 1890s and those between 1900 and 1920?
a)
They were focused mostly on agrarian and labor issues.
b)
The reform movements in neither had any long-term results.
c)
The reform movements in both periods resulted from religious revival.
d)
Women played an integral part in the reform movements of both periods.
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