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WorksheetsProgressivism
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 27mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What amendment provided suffrage for women (1920)?
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
6.
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
7.
Which of the following is an initiative?
a)
People have the right to remove a politician from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to veto or accept a law passed by the government
8.
Which of the following is a Referendum?
a)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
b)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
c)
People have the right to propose their own law
d)
Any law passed by the government can be voted on for approval or veto by the people
9.
Which of the following is a Recall?
a)
People have the right to choose who will run for President
b)
People have the right to remove an elected official from office
c)
People have the right to propose a new law
d)
People have the right to vote on any law passed by their government for approval/veto
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.
Writers that dig up the bad things going on in society
a)
Suffragists
b)
Muckrakers
c)
Students
d)
Chaffinators
14.
To preserve water, trees, plants, and other natural resources
a)
Precipitation
b)
Confurion
c)
Conservation
d)
Infusion
15.
Banned people from making, drinking or selling alcohol
a)
17th Amendment
b)
18th Amendment
c)
19th Amendment
d)
21st Amendment
16.
The banning of alcohol.
a)
Institution
b)
Referendum
c)
Principal
d)
Prohibition
17.
Who was the photographer who revealed to the world how the other half lived?
a)
Alexander Bell
b)
Jacob Riis
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Theodore Roosevelt
18.
The Progressive movement focused on bringing attention to and improving which of the following?
a)
economic and social injustice
b)
big business practices
c)
political corruption
d)
all of the above
19.
Which party supported reforms such as an eight-hour workday and government-owned railroads?
a)
Democratic Party
b)
Populist Party
c)
National Women’s Party
d)
Conservation Party
20.
Theodore Roosevelt’s actions forced the Northern Securities Company and the Standard Oil Trust to
a)
help their competitors.
b)
change their rules about hiring people.
c)
give all their money away.
d)
break up into smaller companies.
21.
All male citizens have the right to vote regardless of race. Which amendment is this?
a)
15th
b)
3rd
c)
26th
d)
14th
22.
Repealed prohibition. Which amendment is this?
a)
21st
b)
18th
c)
27th
d)
4th
23.
The people elect US senators. Which amendment is this?
a)
15th
b)
17th
c)
23rd
d)
26th
24.
Congress can tax income. Which amendment is this?
a)
16th
b)
18th
c)
9th
d)
10th
25.
Who were progressives?
a)
reformers who tried to solve social problems
b)
reformers who wanted to end discrimination
c)
reformers who wanted better jobs
d)
reformers who wanted to become communists
26.
What did the Meat Inspection Act accomplish?
a)
Banned the use of assembly lines
b)
Allowed the government to have unlimited power
c)
Cleaned up food producing factories
d)
Advocated for minority groups
27.
What does suffrage mean?
a)
right to go to school
b)
right to work for better pay
c)
right to better housing
d)
right to vote
28.
Name the platform that Roosevelt would use to describe his policies of fairness?
a)
bully pulpit
b)
Roosevelt Corollary
c)
Big Stick Diplomacy
d)
Square Deal
29.
Nativists believed reform could be achieved by:
a)
restraining businesses.
b)
limiting immigration.
c)
passing environmental legislation
d)
enfranchising women and promoting civil rights.
30.
What is a tentement?
a)
a old house
b)
a apartment building with a balcony
c)
tiny, overcrowded, poorly built apartment
d)
a well built cabin
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