WorksheetsProgressive Era
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 8mins
Muckraker
A person who brings attention to corruption and raise awareness of social injustices
A musical about diseases
A politician who fought for civil rights
A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.
A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.
The Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Inspection Powers Agency (1989)
Food and Drug Agency (1906)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1897)
Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food or medicine that was poisonous, contaminated or mislabeled.
Tariff Act
The Underwood Tariff Act (1913)
The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
The Federal Reserve Act (1913)
16th Amendment
All citizens are required to pay 27% in taxes
People are jailed based upon their annual income.
Established a gradual income tax in America.
The citizens of a state elect can now choose their leaders by randomly choosing one from a bowl
17th Amendment
Direct election of Senators.
Allowed elections to be held in May
Women's suffrage
People are taxed based upon their annual income.
18th Amendment
Responsible for protecting pigs
Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.
The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees
Freedom of speech and religion
19th Amendment
The citizens of a state elect United States Senators from a bowl of paper
A law that outlawed specific business practices used by monopolies, including price discrimination.
A national law that allowed women to vote in local, state, and federal elections.
The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees
The first legislative act that was created to end monopolies and regulate businesses.
The Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (1914)
The Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Progressivism
An illegal payment of money made in return for a favor or service.
The political orientation of those who favor progress towards better conditions in government and society.
A group of individuals that control the how to plan parties
The need to push immigrants out of the fish markets
Jacob Riis was a photographer who also wrote-
How the other half lives
Bitter cry of children
Rockefeller and oil
Immigration laws
Ida Tarbell is known as being a muckraking journalist for her exposing of abuses in which industry?
Oil
Steel
Cheese
Keyboards
Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?
Upton Sinclair
Lewis Hines
Jacob Riss
John Smith
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
Jane Addams
Lindsey Graham
Dois Karen
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
· Initiative
· Referendum
· Recall
· Direct Primary
· 17th Amendment
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
Allowed more people to leave the US
Successful ended communism
The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to
break up monopolies
end women's rights
end racism
What political party did Teddy Roosevelt create?
Bull Moose Party
Populist
Free Silver
