WorksheetsProgressive Era
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 10mins
This Amendment established the public election of U.S. Senators
The 19th Amendment
The 21st Amendment
The 17th Amendment
The 18th Amendment
Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines were known as:
Fuddruckers
Truth Seekers
Muckrakers
Attention Hogs
What is the support for the improvement of society by reform?
Progressivism
Imperialism
Populism
Futurism
Which of this IS NOT one of the four goals of Progressivism?
Protecting Social Welfare
Promoting Moral Development
Creating Economic Reform
Fostering Efficiency
Increasing Animal Rights
What is the banning of alcoholic beverages known as?
Abstention
Redistribution
Revulsion
Prohibition
What is an initiative?
Citizens get to vote directly on a law.
A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.
Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.
What is a Referendum
Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.
Citizens get to vote directly on a law.
A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.
What is a recall?
A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.
Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.
Citizens get to vote directly on a law.
Ida M. Tarbell described in detail the cutthroat methods used by which robber baron in the oil industry?
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Cornelius Vanderbilt
J.P. Morgan
The study of how quickly a task can be preformed is known as:
Fordism
Accelerationism
Scientific Management
Mechanical Engineering
Who fought to improve the lives of women and children and was involved with the Illinois Factory Act of 1893 which prohibited child labor and limited women’s working hours.
Florence Kelley
Carrie Nation
Susan B. Anthony
Ida B. Wells
the principles or practice of Scientific Management are also known as
Fordism
Taylorism
Stalinism
McKinleyism
This book written by Upton Sinclair exposed the appalling working conditions in the meat-packing industry. His description of diseased, rotten, and contaminated meat shocked the public and led to new federal food safety laws.
The Forest
The Jungle
The Tundra
The Desert
This progressive era woman started the Hull House which provided social and educational opportunities for working class people (many of them recent European immigrants)
Ida B. Wells
Jane Addams
Susette La Flesche
Alice Paul
This woman became the first Native American Woman doctor
Susette La Flesche
Ida B. Wells
Florence Kelley
Upton Sinclair
This act established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants
The Clean Meat Amendment
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
The Big Beef Bureau
Meat Contamination Act of 1899
the right for women to vote in political elections is:
Suffrage
Prohibition
Progressivism
Referendum
This amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights.
The 15th Amendment
The 17th Amendment
The 21st Amendment
The 19th Amendment
This “watchdog” agency was given the power to investigate possible violations of regulatory statutes, to require periodic reports from corporations, and to put an end to a number of unfair business practices.
Federal Trade Commision
Free Market Society
Trade Watchdog Commission
Better Business Bureau
This term was used to describe the various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.
Dollar Diplomacy
The Bull Moose Agenda
The Square New Deal
Equal Rights Amendments
This radical suffragist advocated for and helped secure passage of the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution. She also authored the Equal Rights Amendment in 1923.
Ida B. Wells
Alice Paul
Susette La Flesche
Jane Addams
This act prohibited corporations from acquiring the stock of another if doing so would create a monopoly; if a company violated the law, its officers could be prosecuted.
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
The Monroe Doctrine
The Equal Rights Amendment
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906
This African American woman muckraker brought exposure to lynchings (hangings) in the south.
Ida B. Wells
Susan B. Anthony
Susette La Flesche
Florence Kelley
This leader of the women's suffragist movement was arrested for casting a vote illegally in 1872
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alice Paul
Florence Kelley
Susan B. Anthony
Taft's policy that favored investment of money into Latin America and East Asia instead of military intervention. - "dollars for bullets"
Dollar Diplomacy
Square New Deal
Equal Rights Diplomacy
Foreign Power Commission
