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The Progressive Era

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
Voters were less subject to pressure and intimidation when they could vote this way
a)
secret ballot
b)
recall
c)
initiative
d)
referendum
2.
Voters could directly introduce bills in the state legislature and could vote on whether they wanted a bill passed
a)
initiative
b)
referendum
c)
recall
d)
secret ballot
3.

This amendment to the Constitution created an Income Tax to help close the gap between the rich and the poor?

a)

17th

b)

16th

c)

19th

d)

18th

4.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
5.
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
6.
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
7.
What anti monopoly law made all"combinations, contracts, and conspiracies" that restrained free trade illegal (1890)?
a)
Interstate Commerce Act
b)
Sherman Antitrust Act
c)
Clayton Antitrust Act
d)
Keller-Cefauver Act
8.
Who advocated for African Americans to take on menial jobs and earn the respect of white America with hard work ?
a)
WEB Du Bois
b)
Marcus Garvey
c)
Booker T. Washington
d)
Nat Turner
9.
Which Progressive President used Big Stick Diplomacy and was known as a Trust buster?
a)
Teddy Roosevelt
b)
Taft
c)
Woodrow Wilson
d)
Luke Skywalker
10.
This person helped to found the NAACP
a)
Ida B Wells
b)
Booker T Washington
c)
W E B DuBois
d)
Martin Luther King Jr.
11.
 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in
a)
Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
b)
government regulation of unfair business practices
c)
increases in the power of monopolies
d)
reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy
12.
One major legacy of the Social Gospel Movement was 
a)
an end to racial segregation in Southern states.
b)
the conversion of many Catholic immigrants to Protestantism.
c)
         the intervention of prominent religious leaders into electoral politics
d)
an increased attention to the needs of the poor in industrial society
13.
Which of the following is the most significant impact of the Progressive parties?
a)
   restoration of the nation’s cities
b)
   stagnation of opportunities for immigrants
c)
   improvement in the status of Native Americans
d)
   increased control of government by the people
14.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
15.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
16.

Who was Susan B. Anthony?

a)

a leading proponent of women's suffrage

b)

a famous factory worker

c)

a white advocate for African American rights

d)

a progressive first lady

17.

What was the Progressive Movement of the early 1900's a response to?

a)

World War 1

b)

The social upheavals of the 1890's

c)

women's suffrage

d)

economic turmoil

18.

What were the four goals of the Progressive Movement?

a)

protecting social welfare, promoting moral improvement, creating economic reform, fostering efficiency

b)

increasing sale and consumption of alcohol, creating larger monopolies, decreasing funds to the poor, giving trusts more freedom

c)

recovering from economic depression, decreasing monitoring of food production processes, clearing more land for industry, reducing women's suffrage

d)

giving children more work hours, decreasing participation of popular voters in elections/government, promoting success of party bosses, decreasing concern for wildlife conservation

19.

Who were the three Progressive Era presidents?

a)

Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Andrew Garfield

b)

James Buchanan, Richard Nixon, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

c)

Theodore Roosevelt, Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson

d)

Harry Truman, Theodore Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover

20.

What did the NACW stand for, and who founded it/was involved in its creation?

a)

National Association for Christian Women, Eleanor Roosevelt

b)

National Association for Colored Women, Josephine Ruffin

c)

National Association for Child Workers, Susan B. Anthony

d)

National Association for Conservation Workers, Theodore Roosevelt

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