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Progressive Era + Great Depression

Total questions: 32

Worksheet time: 16mins

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Class
Date
1.

The time period in American history of reform and change of culture, society, and the economy.

a)

Progressive Era

b)

Revolution Era

c)

Civil War

d)

Westward Expansion

2.

Laws that segregate the races and discriminate against people of color after the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were passed

a)

Jim Crow Laws

b)

Jim Bo Laws

c)

Andrew Johnson Laws

d)

Monopoly laws

3.

The decision made by the supreme court to rule that separation of the races in public areas was constitutional. "separate but equal"

a)

Plessy v Ferguson

b)

Brown v Board of Education

c)

Marbury v Madison

d)

Roe v Wade

4.

What is a monopoly?

a)

When one person or company controls an industry

b)

When the stock market crashes

c)

a type of voting fraud

d)

all the above

5.

Which person controlled the oil industry in the progressive era?

a)

Rockefeller

b)

Carnegie

c)

Vanderbilt

d)

Morgan

6.

Which person controlled the steel industry during the progressive era?

a)

Carnegie

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Roosevelt

d)

Vanderbilt

7.

Which person controlled the automobile(car) industry during the progressive era?

a)

Ford

b)

Rockefeller

c)

Carnegie

d)

Vanderbilt

8.

Which person controlled the railroad industry during the progressive era

a)

Vanderbilt

b)

Ford

c)

Carnegie

d)

Rockefeller

9.

Which person controlled the banking industry during the progressive era?

a)

Ford

b)

Morgan

c)

Carnegie

d)

Vanderbilt

10.

These two african americans were early civil rights leaders in the progressive era

a)

W.E.B Dubois and Booker T Washington

b)

Frederick Douglass and Stephen Douglass

c)

Malcolm X and Booker T Washington

d)

Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D Roosevelt

11.

This early civil rights leader wanted minorities to educate themselves and provide a peaceful long term solution to earn civil rights for minorities.

a)

Booker T Washington

b)

W.E.B Dubois

c)

Martin Luther

d)

Woodrow Wilson

12.

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

a)

W.E.B Du Bois

b)

Booker T Washington

c)

Barack Obama

d)

Ronald Reagan

13.

What time period did the Progressive era take place?

a)

1880s-1920

b)

1775-1800

c)

1801-1865

d)

1865-1877

14.

What is segregation?

a)

separation of the races in public places

b)

integration of the races in public places

c)

separating of the political parties

d)

integration of the political parties

15.

The political party formed to promise change and fairness to the American people in the progressive era

a)

Progressive

b)

Republican

c)

Democrat

d)

Whig

16.

He is considered the first "Progressive" president in American history

a)

Theodore(Teddy) Roosevelt

b)

Franklin D Roosevelt

c)

Abraham Lincoln

d)

John F Kennedy

17.

What is an example of a Jim Crow law?

a)

Poll tax and literacy tests to vote

b)

all races going to the same schools

c)

people can sit anywhere on the train car

d)

Only black people were allowed to run for president of the United States

18.

Where did most new immigrants who came to America during the Progressive era come from?

a)

Southern and Eastern Europe

b)

Africa

c)

Australia

d)

West Asia

19.

What did the 19th amendment do?

a)

gave women the right to vote

b)

banned alcohol in the United States

c)

gave direct elections of senators

d)

income tax in United States

20.

Who was the founder of the National American Women Suffrage Association and leader for voting rights for women?

a)

Susan B Anthony

b)

Clara Barton

c)

Margret Thatcher

d)

Martha Washington

21.

The word suffrage means what?

a)

right to vote

b)

right to work

c)

suffering pain from work

d)

political suicide

22.

The 18th Amendment

a)

banning of the sale, consumption of alcohol in the US (prohibition)

b)

national income tax

c)

abolition of slavery

d)

civil rights for everyone

23.

The most prosperous decade in American history and established a new American identity

a)

Great Depression

b)

Roaring Twenties

c)

Antebellum period

d)

Atomic Era

24.

What was an invention in the 1920s

a)

Refrigerator

b)

telephone

c)

telegraph

d)

Railroads

25.

The "New Woman" who rebelled against the idea of traditional housewife roles of women

a)

Flapper

b)

Nurse

c)

Wowser

d)

Hooch

26.

The year the stock market crashed and started the Great Depression

a)

1929

b)

1928

c)

1930

d)

1931

27.

Which was a cause of the Great Depression

a)

Buying on margin (Credit cards)

b)

Robber Barons and BIG business

c)

Socialism + Communism

d)

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

28.

What is capitalism?

a)

Individuals are in control of their own decisions

b)

Government controls decisions

c)

Government redistributes the money from rich to poor

d)

all the above

29.

What is Socialism?

a)

individuals make their own decisions

b)

Government redistributes the money from wealthy to the poor

c)

Government makes decisions for its citizens

d)

All the above

30.

What is Communism?

a)

Individuals make their own decisions

b)

Government redistributes the money from the wealthy to the poor

c)

Government controls and makes decisions for its citizens

d)

a government with freedom and elections

31.

Which president candidate created his own progressive party called the Bull Moose Party?

a)

Theodore(Teddy) Roosevelt

b)

William Howard Taft

c)

Woodrow Wilson

d)

Eugene Debs

32.

What was President Franklin D Roosevelt's plan called to help America through the Great Depression?

a)

The New Deal

b)

The Round Deal

c)

The Fair deal

d)

The Get Rich Deal