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Chapter 19 -The Progressive Era

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

A _____ is where the public votes on a proposed law.

a)

referendum

b)

initiatve

c)

recall

2.

In this type of election the voters choose their party's candidates.

a)

recall

b)

initiative

c)

primary

3.

The _____ allows citizens to propose ideas for laws.

a)

iniative

b)

recall

c)

secret ballot

4.

A _____ gives people the chance to remove an elected official from office before the end of their term.

a)

recall

b)

referendum

c)

primary

5.

The leader of the Bull Moose Party was _____.

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Wilson

c)

Taft

6.

_____ created the Federal Reserve Act.

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

7.

Amendment 16, the Graduated Income Tax, was passed during _____'s presidency.

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

8.

Before becoming president this man was a college professor.

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

9.

President _____ was a huge environmentalist.

a)

T. Roosevelt

b)

Taft

c)

Wilson

10.

_____ created the Tuskegee Institute.

a)

W.E.B. DuBois

b)

George Washington Carver

c)

Booker T. Washington

11.

This lady was a radical crusader for the temperance movement.

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Carrie Nation

12.

Educational facility established by a church is known as a ______

a)

parochial school.

b)

kindergarten.

c)

learning center.

13.

A ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol was known as _____.

a)

lynching

b)

prohibition

c)

suffrage

14.

_____ is also known as murder by a mob.

a)

suffrage

b)

prohibition

c)

lynching.

15.

_____ worked for women's right to vote.

a)

Suffragists.

b)

Prohibitionists

c)

Anarchists.

16.

_____ is prejudice against Jews.

a)

Temperance

b)

Anti-semitism

c)

Lynching

17.

Amendment _____doubled the number of voters in the United States.

a)

18

b)

19

c)

20

18.

This gentleman is credited with establishing the NAACP.

a)

Booker T. Washington

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

W.E.B. DuBois

19.

This gathering marked the beginning of the Women's Rights Movement.

a)

Seneca Falls Convention

b)

Haymarket Bombing

c)

Homestead Strike

20.

In the late 1800s, who controlled many local city governments?

a)

the civil servents

b)

the political machines

c)

the patrons

21.

Whose book led Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Ida Tarbell

c)

Upton Sinclair

22.

Who is responsible for the primary election?

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Robert La Follette

23.

What did President Roosevelt want to do with trusts?

a)

regulate them

b)

destroy therm

c)

join them

24.

What amendment gave Congress the power to tax citizen's income?

a)

16

b)

18

c)

19

25.

What legislation created by President Wilson regulated the banking industry?

a)

Clayton Anti-trust Act

b)

The Federal Reserve Act

c)

Sherman Anti-trust Act

26.

T. Roosevelt became president when _____ was assassinated.

a)

President Lincoln

b)

President McKinley

c)

President Garfield

27.

The nickname given to T. Roosevelt for breaking up big business monopolies.

a)

trust buster

b)

conservative

c)

civil servant

28.

The ______ movement began when President Roosevelt felt the need to protect our natural resources.

a)

temperance

b)

suffrage

c)

conservation

29.

Crusading journalists who searched for the truth in government and big business were known as _____.

a)

Yellow Journalists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Civil Servants

30.

Government jobs that are now given based on a person's merits are _____ jobs.

a)

civil service

b)

spoils system

c)

patronage