WorksheetsWestward Movement, Industrialism, and Progressive Era
Total questions: 38
Worksheet time: 19mins
During the 1890s Native American Indians were sent to Federal Reservations that were located...
Along the major rivers and lakes in the South
In Urban Centers of the Northeast and Midwest
East of the Mississippi River
In sparsely populated regions of the West and Great Plains
The US Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) stated...
Right of Representation
Separate but Equal facilities are legal
Freedom of expression and universal suffrage
Property ownership should be extended to Freedmen
The mechanization of Agriculture in 1870s to 1900 in the United States led directly to...
Less dependence on railroads for farmers
An increase in crop production (supply)
An increase in the Railroad Freight Tax
Fewer agricultural exports
In the period 1865 to 1900 the Federal Govt encouraged Western settlement by...
passing several restrictive immigration laws
giving land to railroad companies to promote railroad construction
providing free transportation to move to the Frontier
selling the best public land to Native American Indians
Which statement indicates the philosophies of Dr. Booker T. Washington and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois?
Both wanted the Supreme Court to uphold Plessy v. Ferguson
Both said that Social Justice was the first step to equality
Neither wanted the Govt to protect Civil Rights of African Americans
Both believed vocational/technical training would provide advancement
The American Frontier in the 1870s-1900 led to the creation of a...
Decreased population
Fishing economy in Nebraska and Montana
Widespread support for the Whig Party
National Economy
What legislation provided 160 acres of land as long as improvements were made within 5 years, encouraging settlement in the West?
Interstate Commerce Commission
Clayton Anti-Trust Act
Homestead Act
Hepburn Act
Vertical integration involves....
Forming trusts
Using new methods to crank up production
Merging with other companies that make similar products
Buying out and controlling all aspects of the process: raw materials, processing, and distribution
The Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act...
established big business and monopolies
was supported by millionaire industrialists
helped fight for workers rights
outlawed trusts that interfered with free trade
What best describes immigration in the late 19th/early 20th century?
immigrants were mostly from Germany and Ireland and assimilated quickly in society
immigrants were mostly Asian and worked on railroads
immigrants were mostly Southeastern European and were slow to assimilate into society
They were widely accepted by native-born Americans
Which of these was an amendment passed during the Progressive Era?
Direct Election of Senators - 17th Amendment
Black Male Suffrage - 15th Amendment
Abolishment of Slavery - 13th Amendment
Elimination of Poll Taxes - 24th Amendment
The strong anti-immigrant sentiment shared by many Americans at the turn of the 20th century was known as?
White Supremacy
Nativism
Social Darwinism
10 percentism
The term "muckrakers" refers to:
Suffragists
Politicians
Conservationists
Investigative Journalists
Which one of these was NOT a goal of the Progressive Movement?
Protecting consumers
Economic reforms (taxes and the banks)
Promoting monopolies
Social Welfare reform
Which action helped Taft to lose in the 1912 Presidential Election?
Failure of continuing trust-busting from Roosevelt's presidency
Inconsistency on tariff issues
Inability to unify the Republican Party because of Roosevelt's third party run in that election
Overuse of the "bully pulpit"
Which one of these was not a great industrialist?
John D. Rockefeller
William Jennings Bryant
J.P. Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
A great industrialist would be considered a "captain of industry" for all of these reasons EXCEPT:
Giving away millions to people in need (philanthropy)
Providing jobs for American workers
Used business practices like "horizontal integration" to get ahead
Made goods more readily available and brought prices of those products down for consumers
What was the name of the third political party that developed to address the needs of farmers, including government ownership of railroads and introduction of the silver standard for currency?
Socialist Party
Whig Party
Bull Moose Party
Populist Party
What idea, promoted by great industrialists Andrew Carnegie, claimed God meant for them to be rich, but that they had a responsibility to give back to their community?
Social Gospel
Social Darwinism
The Gospel of Wealth
Survival of the Fittest
Which of these was NOT an effect on society because of the Transcontinental Railroad?
Development of US time zones
Discouraged immigrants from coming to the US
Helped to create western industries like mining, cattle ranching, and farming
Cut the time of cross country travel down to one week
Which of these was NOT a factor in the demise of Native American tribes of the west in the late 19th Century
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Near extinction of the Buffalo
Alcoholism
The Railroad
Which of these did NOT lead to industrialization during the late 19th Century?
Government control over big business
Availability of natural resources such as iron ore
Inventiveness in the US
Increase immigration, which provided cheap labor
What economic theory related to the idea of "survival of the fittest" with respect to the business world and justified business practices of the great industrialists:
Vertical integration
Social Gospel
Horizontal Integration
Social Darwinism
This reformer pushed for anti-lynching legislation
Jacob Riis
Ida B Wells
Francis Willard
Alice Paul
This person was the founder of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, which pushed for prohibition of the consumption of alcohol
Alice Paul
Carrie Nation
Lucy Burns
Francis Willard
This conservationist pushed President Roosevelt to set aside land in order to protect against the harmful effects that industrialization had on the environment
Lewis Hine
John Muir
Hiram Johnson
Emma Goldman
This muckraker exposed the unsafe practices of drug manufacturing companies, influencing the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and wrote the article entitled "Great American Fraud" about this issue
Samuel Hopkins Adams
David G Phillips
Frank Norris
Upton Sinclair
This politician brought needed political reforms to their state with initiatives, referendums, and recalls, in addition to influencing direct election of senators on the national level
Lincoln Steffens
W.E.B. DuBois
Robert LaFollette
John Muir
Founder of the Anti-Saloon League, this activist pushed young people to pledge abstinence from alcohol
Emma Goldman
Howard Hyde Russell
Carrie Nation
Francis Willard
This axe-wielding prohibitionist was a radical member of the temperance movement
Carrie Nation
Lewis Hine
Francis Willard
Howard Hyde Russell
This photojournalist used his work to try to bring an end to child labor
John Spargo
Lewis Hine
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
This founder of the National Consumers League staged boycotts of products that were produced with the use of child labor or unfair business practices
Emma Goldman
Ida Tarbell
Margaret Sanger
Florence Kelley
This reformer wrote "Shame of the Cities", which exposed political corruption in local politics
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
David Graham Phillips
This reformer wrote "The Bitter Cry of the Children", which advocated for an end of the exploitation of children as labor
John Spargo
Lincoln Steffens
Jacob Riis
Frank Norris
This social activist provided resources to immigrants and other poor residents at their settlement house in Chicago (Hull House)
Ida B Wells
Carrie Nation
Lucy Berns
Jane Addams
This muckraker exposed the unfair business practices used by Standard Oil and advocated for anti-trust legislation
Emma Goldman
Jacob Riis
Ida Tarbell
Henry Demarest Lloyd
This journalist detailed the lives of those living in the slums of New York City in the early 20th century in his work entitled "How the Other Half Lives"
Jacob Riis
John Spargo
Lewis Hine
Samuel Hopkins Adams
This radical suffragists used strategies such as protests and hunger strikes in order to push for the passage of an amendment that provided suffrage for women
Florence Kelley
Alice Paul
Lucy Burns
Ida B Wells
