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Progressives

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Amendment that gave Congress the power to tax income.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

2.

Amendment that established the direct election of senators by the people.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

3.

Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

4.

Amendment that gave women the right to vote.

a)

16th Amendment

b)

17th Amendment

c)

18th Amendment

d)

19th Amendment

5.

Law that weakened monopolies and upheld the rights of unions and farm organizations.

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Clayton Anti-trust Act

c)

Pure Food & Drug Act

d)

Roosevelt Corollary

6.

form of democracy in which the people vote firsthand

a)

representative democracy

b)

fake democracy

c)

direct democracy

d)

indirect democracy

7.

This muckraker took on Standard Oil.

a)

Ida Tarbell

b)

Lincoln Steffens

c)

Upton Sinclair

d)

Jacob Riis

8.

This is a tax on a person's earnings.

a)

Death tax

b)

Municipal tax

c)

Income tax

d)

Probate tax

9.

These tools were used to help increase direct democracy during the Progressive Era.

a)

initiative, referendum. recall

b)

Social Gospel, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth

c)

Homestead Act, Pacific Railway Act, Morill Land Grant Act

d)

13th, 14th, 15th Amendments.

10.

Journalists who exposed and published about corruption in business and politics.

a)

Yellow Journalists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Slanderers

d)

Libelists

11.

Choose which of the following helped Progressives decided to make "A better American society" (Choose ALL that apply)

a)

Protecting Social Welfare

b)

Promoting moral improvement

c)

Economic reform/competition

d)

Run by corporations and crooked politicians.

12.

Halted sale of contaminated foods & medicines; called for truth in labeling

a)

The Good Neighbor Act

b)

The Dawes Act

c)

Pure Food & Drug Act

d)

The Homestead Act

13.

This word means the right to vote.

a)

freedom

b)

suffrage

c)

federalism

d)

republicanism

14.

Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Alice Paul were prominent women known for working for the right of women to vote.

a)

Apologists

b)

Suffragists

c)

Strategists

d)

Communists

15.

This muckraker wrote a book entitled The Jungle which exposed disgusting practices in the meat packing industry.

a)

Lincoln Steffens

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Jacob Riis

16.

This word refers to a movement that is anti-alcohol

a)

temperance

b)

suffrage

c)

civil rights

d)

rum runners

17.

The WCTU stands for

a)

Women's Charity Texans Union

b)

Women's Christmas Teachers Union

c)

Women's Christian Temperance Union

d)

Wonderful Charity Together United

18.

Supreme Court Ruling that stated "separate but equal" was a legal way to separate the races.

a)

Marbury v. Madison

b)

Roper v. Simmons

c)

Plessy v. Ferguson

d)

Roe v. Wade