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Progressive Era/Women's Suffrage

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was the Progressive Era?

a)

1800-1830

b)

1865-1877

c)

1890-1920

d)

1933-1945

2.

Writers that reveal wrongdoings of business and government

a)

Suffragists

b)

Muckrakers

c)

Protesters

d)

Scalawags

3.
Key Reforms of the Progressive Era
·  Initiative
 ·  Referendum
·  Recall
·  Direct Primary
·  17th Amendment

 How did the reforms listed above impact America?
a)
A system of separate schools for new immigrants
b)
They gave citizens a greater voice in the democratic process of government
c)
More sources of revenue and taxes in state governments.
d)
They successfully brought economic relief to the urban working class
4.
Who wrote the expose piece of literature that revealed the extensive corrupt monopolistic business practices of Standard Oil?
a)
Ida Tarbell
b)
Lewis Hines 
c)
Jacob Riis
d)
Upton Sinclair
5.
Who was the person who founded the settlement house (Hull House) for the Assimilation and Americanization of the immigrant poor?
a)
Elixabeth Cady Stanton
b)
Jane Addams
c)
Susan B. Anthony
d)
Belle Starr
6.

The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe

a)

dissatisfied workers who went on strike

b)

Northerners who went South following the Civil War

c)

investigative journalists who exposed societal problems

d)

women who supported the Prohibition movement

7.

Who fought for laws to protect women in the workplace and improved child labor laws

a)

Florance Kelley

b)

Doroetha Dix

c)

Charlotte Hawkins Brown

d)

Ida B. Wells

8.
Which Muckraker exposed problems with the meat-packing industry in the book 'The Jungle'?
a)
Jacob Riis
b)
Ida B. Wells
c)
Upton Sinclair
d)
Ida Tarbell
9.

What was a result of The Jungle by Upton Sinclair?

a)

Interstate Commerce Act

b)

Meat Inspection Act

c)

Sherman Anti Trust Act

d)

Pendleton Act

10.

The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory were

a)

Max Blanck and Isaac Harris

b)

Cornelius Vanderbilt and Jacob Riis

c)

Alice Paul and Carry Chapman

d)

John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie

11.

What kind of workers did the factory employ mostly?

a)

young immigrant women who knew little English

b)

male immigrants who knew no English

c)

young females who knew English well

d)

male immigrants from Ireland

12.

How many people died as a result of the fire?

a)

25

b)

146

c)

350

d)

697

13.

The date the fire occurred was

a)

March 25,1981

b)

April 15, 1850

c)

March 25,1911

d)

April 15, 1947

14.

Amendment that called for direct election of Senators (Constitution calls for State Legislatures to appoint).

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

15.

Supporters of this amendment believed passage would solve many societal problems related to drinking, such as drunk men spending all of a family's money and abusing wives and children.

a)

16th

b)

17th

c)

18th

d)

19th

16.
Prevents denial to vote based on sex.
a)
16th
b)
17th
c)
18th
d)
19th
17.

What was the name of the progressive political party formed by T. Roosevelt after he lost the Republican Party nomination?

a)

The G.O.P.

b)

The Bull Moose Party

c)

The Democratic Party

d)

The Pirate Party

18.

One major goal of the Progressive movement was to

a)

balance the federal budget by decreasing spending

b)

provide unemployment insurance to workers

c)

limit direct citizen control over government

d)

pass laws to help solve economic and social problems

19.

Congress passed the Interstate Commerce Act (1887) and the Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) in response to

a)

foreign influences on the United States economy

b)

public demand for better roads

c)

monopolistic practices that were harmful to small businesses

d)

the failure of federal banks to provide loans to individuals

20.
Which term explains Roosevelt's actions in breaking up the monopolies?
a)
Cease and Desist orders
b)
Judicial Review
c)
Injunctions
d)
trustbusting
21.

Jane Addams responded to poor living conditions by working to establish

a)

settlement houses

b)

newspapers

c)

immigration laws

d)

public schools

22.

Teddy Roosevelt’s policy that all people should get a fair and honest chance for success.

a)

Square Deal

b)

Round Deal

c)

Bully Pulpit

d)

Monroe Doctrine

23.
Whose book caused the Pure Food and Drug Act and the Meat Inspection Act to be passed?
a)
Upton Sinclair
b)
Lincoln Steffens
c)
Ida Tarbell
d)
Jacob Riis
24.
 The actions of muckrakers in the late 19th century and early 20th century resulted in
a)
Supreme Court decisions that expanded the right to vote
b)
government regulation of unfair business practices
c)
increases in the power of monopolies
d)
reduction of the president’s power to manage the economy
25.

Made it illegal to create trusts and monopolies

a)

Sherman Antitrust Act

b)

Square Deal

c)

Roosevelt Corollary

d)

Bully Pulpit

26.
Which statement best represents the events in the picture?
a)
Women wanted the president to support equal rights and the right to vote for females.
b)
Women wanted the U.S. president to back labor unions.
c)
Women did not like the president’s approach to civil rights.
d)
Women protested for homeless women and demanded equal job opportunities.
27.
When did Congress finally approve (ratify) the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution?
a)
1776
b)
1861
c)
1920
d)
1929
28.

This suffragist left the NAWSA to start the National Women's Party:

a)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Woodrow Wilson

29.
In this cartoon what do the 36 buttons represent?
a)
The unlikelihood of women ever getting enough support for a federal amendment.
b)
The level of difficulty women had buttoning the back of a dress.
c)
The importance that women do not burst out of their proper clothing.
d)
The number of states needed to get an amendment to the Constitution passed.
30.
Who was the president of the National America Woman Suffrage Association during the passage of the 19th amendment? 
a)
Alice Paul
b)
Susan B. Anthony
c)
Ida B. Wells
d)
Carrie Chapman Catt 
31.
Where was the first Women's Rights Convention held?
a)
Seneca Falls, New York
b)
Albany, New York
c)
Columbus, Ohio
d)
Miami, Florida
32.
Ran for President in 1912
a)
Theodore Roosevelt
b)
Woodrow Wilson
c)
William Howard Taft
d)
all of the above
33.

Photographed conditions of the urban poor in How the Other Half Lives

a)

Jacob Riis

b)

Upton Sinclair

c)

Ida Tarbell

d)

Lincoln Steffens

34.
Who was NOT a president during the Progressive Reform?
a)
William H. Taft
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Teddy Roosevelt
d)
Woodrow Wilson
35.
Which two women were influential in gaining women's suffrage?
a)
Rosa Parks, Ida B Wells
b)
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton 
c)
Eleanor Roosevelt, Laura Bush
d)
Michelle Obama, Jane Addams
36.
Which of the following was TRUE?
a)
Workers during the early 1900s often worked many hours for very little pay.
b)
Children were not allowed to work in factories, no matter how poor the family.
c)
Factories and other workplace conditions were very clean and safe. 
d)
Workers during the early 1900s often got bonuses for working extra hours.
37.
What is the best explanation of the 1912 election results?
a)
Americans were unwilling to support third party candidates
b)
Woodrow Wilson benefited from a split in the Republican party
c)
Americans did not want to change Presidents while the country was at war
d)
Minor candidates shifted the victory from Theodore Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson

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