WorksheetsChapter 19 -The Progressive Era
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
A _____ is where the public votes on a proposed law.
referendum
initiatve
recall
In this type of election the voters choose their party's candidates.
recall
initiative
primary
The _____ allows citizens to propose ideas for laws.
iniative
recall
secret ballot
A _____ gives people the chance to remove an elected official from office before the end of their term.
recall
referendum
primary
The leader of the Bull Moose Party was _____.
T. Roosevelt
Wilson
Taft
_____ created the Federal Reserve Act.
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Amendment 16, the Graduated Income Tax, was passed during _____'s presidency.
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
Before becoming president this man was a college professor.
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
President _____ was a huge environmentalist.
T. Roosevelt
Taft
Wilson
_____ created the Tuskegee Institute.
W.E.B. DuBois
George Washington Carver
Booker T. Washington
This lady was a radical crusader for the temperance movement.
Ida Tarbell
Alice Paul
Carrie Nation
Educational facility established by a church is known as a ______
parochial school.
kindergarten.
learning center.
A ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol was known as _____.
lynching
prohibition
suffrage
_____ is also known as murder by a mob.
suffrage
prohibition
lynching.
_____ worked for women's right to vote.
Suffragists.
Prohibitionists
Anarchists.
_____ is prejudice against Jews.
Temperance
Anti-semitism
Lynching
Amendment _____doubled the number of voters in the United States.
18
19
20
This gentleman is credited with establishing the NAACP.
Booker T. Washington
Andrew Carnegie
W.E.B. DuBois
This gathering marked the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement.
Seneca Falls Convention
Haymarket Bombing
Homestead Strike
In the late 1800s, who controlled many local city governments?
the civil servents
the political machines
the patrons
Whose book led Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act?
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Upton Sinclair
Who is responsible for the primary election?
Jacob Riis
Andrew Carnegie
Robert La Follette
What did President Roosevelt want to do with trusts?
regulate them
destroy therm
join them
What amendment gave Congress the power to tax citizen's income?
16
18
19
What legislation created by President Wilson regulated the banking industry?
Clayton Anti-trust Act
The Federal Reserve Act
Sherman Anti-trust Act
T. Roosevelt became president when _____ was assassinated.
President Lincoln
President McKinley
President Garfield
The nickname given to T. Roosevelt for breaking up big business monopolies.
trust buster
conservative
civil servant
The ______ movement began when President Roosevelt felt the need to protect our natural resources.
temperance
suffrage
conservation
Crusading journalists who searched for the truth in government and big business were known as _____.
Yellow Journalists
Muckrakers
Civil Servants
Government jobs that are now given based on a person's merits are _____ jobs.
civil service
spoils system
patronage
