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WorksheetsProgressive Era of Reform
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 30mins
In the early 1900s, Americans took part in all of these leisure activities, EXCEPT...
listening to Jazz.
listening to Ragtime Music.
watching baseball.
skateboarding.
____________________ was the most famous Boss of a political machine.
William Magear Tweed
A. Philip Randolph
Jacob Riis
Upton Sinclair
__________________ in the Gilded Age included bribes, extortion, convincing the poor to vote a certain way by promising them jobs, and stealing millions from the cities in which they operated.
Technicalities
Distress
Corruption
Influence
Believing that the government should take complete ownership of CORRUPT businesses is called ______________.
Socialism
Progressivism
Corruption
Absolutism
_____________________ is the thought that the government should regulate, not control, corrupt businesses.
Socialism
Progressive
Reformism
Civil Service
Ida Tarbell, Upton Sinclair, Jacob Riis, and Lincoln Steffens were all ________________ , who exposed the "muck" of society.
writers
authors
journalists
muckrakers
The 18th Amendment began a period of _________________, during which the production, sale, and transport of alcohol became illegal in the U.S.
Illegalism
Prohibition
Anti-Alcoholism
Alcoholism
John Dewey advocated changes in public education to place greater emphasis on _____________________ rather than rote memorization.
understanding
praying
getting
believing
Women's Suffrage refers to a woman's right to _______.
work.
get divorced.
vote.
bear children
Was it Booker T. Washington or W.E.B. Du Bois who believed that legal equality for African Americans would put an end to injustice?
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. Du Bois
