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WorksheetsProgressive Era + Great Depression
Total questions: 32
Worksheet time: 16mins
The time period in American history of reform and change of culture, society, and the economy.
Progressive Era
Revolution Era
Civil War
Westward Expansion
Laws that segregate the races and discriminate against people of color after the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were passed
Jim Crow Laws
Jim Bo Laws
Andrew Johnson Laws
Monopoly laws
The decision made by the supreme court to rule that separation of the races in public areas was constitutional. "separate but equal"
Plessy v Ferguson
Brown v Board of Education
Marbury v Madison
Roe v Wade
What is a monopoly?
When one person or company controls an industry
When the stock market crashes
a type of voting fraud
all the above
Which person controlled the oil industry in the progressive era?
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
Morgan
Which person controlled the steel industry during the progressive era?
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Roosevelt
Vanderbilt
Which person controlled the automobile(car) industry during the progressive era?
Ford
Rockefeller
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
Which person controlled the railroad industry during the progressive era
Vanderbilt
Ford
Carnegie
Rockefeller
Which person controlled the banking industry during the progressive era?
Ford
Morgan
Carnegie
Vanderbilt
These two african americans were early civil rights leaders in the progressive era
W.E.B Dubois and Booker T Washington
Frederick Douglass and Stephen Douglass
Malcolm X and Booker T Washington
Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D Roosevelt
This early civil rights leader wanted minorities to educate themselves and provide a peaceful long term solution to earn civil rights for minorities.
Booker T Washington
W.E.B Dubois
Martin Luther
Woodrow Wilson
This early civil rights leader wanted a short term plan for equal rights for minorities and believed rights should not be earned when they already exist in the constitution
W.E.B Du Bois
Booker T Washington
Barack Obama
Ronald Reagan
What time period did the Progressive era take place?
1880s-1920
1775-1800
1801-1865
1865-1877
What is segregation?
separation of the races in public places
integration of the races in public places
separating of the political parties
integration of the political parties
The political party formed to promise change and fairness to the American people in the progressive era
Progressive
Republican
Democrat
Whig
He is considered the first "Progressive" president in American history
Theodore(Teddy) Roosevelt
Franklin D Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
John F Kennedy
What is an example of a Jim Crow law?
Poll tax and literacy tests to vote
all races going to the same schools
people can sit anywhere on the train car
Only black people were allowed to run for president of the United States
Where did most new immigrants who came to America during the Progressive era come from?
Southern and Eastern Europe
Africa
Australia
West Asia
What did the 19th amendment do?
gave women the right to vote
banned alcohol in the United States
gave direct elections of senators
income tax in United States
Who was the founder of the National American Women Suffrage Association and leader for voting rights for women?
Susan B Anthony
Clara Barton
Margret Thatcher
Martha Washington
The word suffrage means what?
right to vote
right to work
suffering pain from work
political suicide
The 18th Amendment
banning of the sale, consumption of alcohol in the US (prohibition)
national income tax
abolition of slavery
civil rights for everyone
The most prosperous decade in American history and established a new American identity
Great Depression
Roaring Twenties
Antebellum period
Atomic Era
What was an invention in the 1920s
Refrigerator
telephone
telegraph
Railroads
The "New Woman" who rebelled against the idea of traditional housewife roles of women
Flapper
Nurse
Wowser
Hooch
The year the stock market crashed and started the Great Depression
1929
1928
1930
1931
Which was a cause of the Great Depression
Buying on margin (Credit cards)
Robber Barons and BIG business
Socialism + Communism
Bombing of Pearl Harbor
What is capitalism?
Individuals are in control of their own decisions
Government controls decisions
Government redistributes the money from rich to poor
all the above
What is Socialism?
individuals make their own decisions
Government redistributes the money from wealthy to the poor
Government makes decisions for its citizens
All the above
What is Communism?
Individuals make their own decisions
Government redistributes the money from the wealthy to the poor
Government controls and makes decisions for its citizens
a government with freedom and elections
Which president candidate created his own progressive party called the Bull Moose Party?
Theodore(Teddy) Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Eugene Debs
What was President Franklin D Roosevelt's plan called to help America through the Great Depression?
The New Deal
The Round Deal
The Fair deal
The Get Rich Deal
