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WorksheetsProgressive Era Study Guide
Total questions: 49
Worksheet time: 40mins
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
How did the reforms listed above impact America?
powerful organizations that influenced city and county politics
political machines
town politicals
tycoon politics
political enforcers
a group of reformers who worked to improve social and political problems
Socializers
Politicians
Reformeters
Progressives
regulations that promise workers a portion of wages if hurt on the job
workers' repayment acts
workers' compensation laws
workers' injury clause
workers' hazard payment
What does this picture represent?
Asian people waiting to immigrate
Chinese Exclusion Act
Nationalism
Trumps Wall
What is the Homestead Act?
An act to move Native Americans to land in the west
A way to get a house for cheap with no strings
160 acres of land in the west as long as it is cultivated and lived upon
A loan for a house
what were small apartment buildings called
Condo's
Tenements
Carry house
tatoes
Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) in response to
foreign influences on the United States economy
public demand for better roads
monopolistic practices that were harmful to small businesses
the failure of federal banks to provide loans to individuals
Which Progressive Era muckraker’s book led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act?
Jacob Riis’s How the Other Half Lives
Lincoln Steffens’s The Shame of the Cities
Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
Frank Norris’s The Octopus
In 1906, the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act were passed in an attempt to
ensure the safety of American consumers
establish price controls on the cattle industry
limit the power of Congress
give big business greater control over the economy
“…We therefore formulate, and for ourselves adopt the following pledge, asking our sisters and brothers of a common danger and a common hope, to make common cause with us, in working its reasonable and helpful precepts [principles] into the practice of everyday life. I hereby solemnly promise, God helping me, to abstain from all distilled, fermented and malt liquors, including wine, beer and cider, and to employ all proper means to discourage the use of and traffic in the same.…” — National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1908 (adapted)
According to this passage, those who adopted this pledge believed that
religion had no place in national politics
Congress should repeal Prohibition
alcohol consumption was damaging to society
only the government can solve social problems
Primaries, the secret ballot, and the use of referendum and recall were efforts made during the Progressive Era to
preserve the power of political machines
provide equal political rights for Native American Indians
protect States rights against federal power
increase citizen participation in government
Speaker A: The best way to prevent corruption in government is to allow citizens a direct role in the legislative process.
Speaker B: Breaking up trusts and monopolies will increase business competition.
Speaker C: An important goal of the federal government should be the protection of our natural resources.
Speaker D: Government will only improve when women are granted full suffrage
Which speaker’s statement is most directly related to the political concepts of initiative, referendum, and recall?
A
B
C
D
One major goal of the Progressive movement was to
balance the federal budget by decreasing spending
provide unemployment insurance to workers
limit direct citizen control over government
pass laws to help solve economic and social problems
The Democratic donkey and Republican elephant in the background of this cartoon clearly indicate that the animal in the foreground represents a new third party challenger. Which of the following most accurately identifies that challenger and party?
Henry Wallace, Progressive party
James B. Weaver, Greenback party
Theodore Roosevelt, Bull Moose party
Millard Fillmore, American or Know Nothing party
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. . . . When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.. —Seventeenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution, 1913 -
Which of the following policies is an effect of the excerpt above?
State legislators vote to fill Senate seats for their state.
Constituents directly elect senators to represent their state
Senate seats can remain vacant for lengthy periods of time.
Senators had more votes on legislation than they did previously.
Which statement best explains why the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was formed in 1909?
Conservatives had pressured Progressive Republicans to adopt a strongly anti-civil rights platform.
Progressive reformers had failed to address the social and political problems faced by African Americans.
The Progressive acceptance of scientific management principles placed added burdens on African American workers.
Women social activists were most heavily involved in which Progressive Era movement?
antitrust reform
temperance
conservationism
Which statement best explains how the Pure Food and Drug Act changed the manufacturing of food and medicine products in the United States?
It required that food and medicine containers have accurate ingredients labels.
It established workplace safety standards for food and medicine factories
It ensured that food and medicine products were packed in airtight containers.
2. Poll tax
3. inconvenient registration times
4. KKK
5. white democratic primary
2. Leo Frank Case
3. International Cotton Expo
4. Atlanta Riot of 1906
5. Jim Crow Laws
Trust means _______________.
country
poor
monopoly
The ___________ Amendment created income tax.
16th
17th
18th
