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Progressive Era

Total questions: 16

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Muckraker

a)

A person who brings attention to corruption and raise awareness of social injustices

b)

A musical about diseases

c)

A politician who fought for civil rights

d)

A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.

2.

A law that granted the United States government the power to inspect meat before it was sold to consumers.

a)

The Meat Inspection Act (1906)

b)

Inspection Powers Agency (1989)

c)

Food and Drug Agency (1906)

d)

Sherman Antitrust Act (1897)

3.

Prevented the manufacture, sale, or transportation of food or medicine that was poisonous, contaminated or mislabeled.

a)

Tariff Act

b)

The Underwood Tariff Act (1913)

c)

The Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)

d)

The Federal Reserve Act (1913)

4.

16th Amendment

a)

All citizens are required to pay 27% in taxes

b)

People are jailed based upon their annual income.

c)

Established a gradual income tax in America.

d)

The citizens of a state elect can now choose their leaders by randomly choosing one from a bowl

5.

17th Amendment

a)

Direct election of Senators.

b)

Allowed elections to be held in May

c)

Women's suffrage

d)

People are taxed based upon their annual income.

6.

18th Amendment

a)

Responsible for protecting pigs

b)

Banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol in the United States.

c)

The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees

d)

Freedom of speech and religion

7.

19th Amendment

a)

The citizens of a state elect United States Senators from a bowl of paper

b)

A law that outlawed specific business practices used by monopolies, including price discrimination.

c)

A national law that allowed women to vote in local, state, and federal elections.

d)

The law also exempted labor unions from growing trees

8.

The first legislative act that was created to end monopolies and regulate businesses.

a)

The Federal Reserve Act (1913)

b)

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (1914)

c)

The Mann-Elkins Act (1910)

d)

The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)

9.

Progressivism

a)

An illegal payment of money made in return for a favor or service.

b)

The political orientation of those who favor progress towards better conditions in government and society.

c)

A group of individuals that control the how to plan parties

d)

The need to push immigrants out of the fish markets

10.

Jacob Riis was a photographer who also wrote-

a)

How the other half lives

b)

Bitter cry of children

c)

Rockefeller and oil

d)

Immigration laws

11.

Ida Tarbell is known as being a muckraking journalist for her exposing of abuses in which industry?

a)

Oil

b)

Steel

c)

Cheese

d)

Keyboards

12.

Whose book led to the direct passage of the Meat Inspection Act and indirect of the Pure Food and Drug Acts?

a)

Upton Sinclair

b)

Lewis Hines

c)

Jacob Riss

d)

John Smith

13.

Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?

a)

Jane Addams

b)

Lindsey Graham

c)

Dois Karen

14.

Key Reforms of the Progressive Era

· Initiative

· Referendum

· Recall

· Direct Primary

· 17th Amendment

a)

They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government

b)

Allowed more people to leave the US

c)

Successful ended communism

15.

The Sherman anti-trust act was passed to

a)

break up monopolies

b)

end women's rights

c)

end racism

16.

What political party did Teddy Roosevelt create?

a)

Bull Moose Party

b)

Populist

c)

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