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Progressive Era

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This Amendment established the public election of U.S. Senators

a)

The 19th Amendment

b)

The 21st Amendment

c)

The 17th Amendment

d)

The 18th Amendment

2.

Journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business and public life in mass circulation magazines were known as:

a)

Fuddruckers

b)

Truth Seekers

c)

Muckrakers

d)

Attention Hogs

3.

What is the support for the improvement of society by reform?

a)

Progressivism

b)

Imperialism

c)

Populism

d)

Futurism

4.

Which of this IS NOT one of the four goals of Progressivism?

a)

Protecting Social Welfare

b)

Promoting Moral Development

c)

Creating Economic Reform

d)

Fostering Efficiency

e)

Increasing Animal Rights

5.

What is the banning of alcoholic beverages known as?

a)

Abstention

b)

Redistribution

c)

Revulsion

d)

Prohibition

6.

What is an initiative?

a)

Citizens get to vote directly on a law.

b)

A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.

c)

Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.

7.

What is a Referendum

a)

Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.

b)

Citizens get to vote directly on a law.

c)

A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.

8.

What is a recall?

a)

A bill originated by the people rather than lawmakers on the ballot.

b)

Enables voters to remove public officials if they are unpopular, regardless of if their term is up or not.

c)

Citizens get to vote directly on a law.

9.

Ida M. Tarbell described in detail the cutthroat methods used by which robber baron in the oil industry?

a)

John D. Rockefeller

b)

Andrew Carnegie

c)

Cornelius Vanderbilt

d)

J.P. Morgan

10.

The study of how quickly a task can be preformed is known as:

a)

Fordism

b)

Accelerationism

c)

Scientific Management

d)

Mechanical Engineering

11.

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.

a)

Florence Kelley

b)

Carrie Nation

c)

Susan B. Anthony

d)

Ida B. Wells

12.

the principles or practice of Scientific Management are also known as

a)

Fordism

b)

Taylorism

c)

Stalinism

d)

McKinleyism

13.

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.

a)

The Forest

b)

The Jungle

c)

The Tundra

d)

The Desert

14.

This progressive era woman started the Hull House which provided social and educational opportunities for working class people (many of them recent European immigrants)

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Jane Addams

c)

Susette La Flesche

d)

Alice Paul

15.

This woman became the first Native American Woman doctor

a)

Susette La Flesche

b)

Ida B. Wells

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Upton Sinclair

16.

This act established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and meat processing plants

a)

The Clean Meat Amendment

b)

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906

c)

The Big Beef Bureau

d)

Meat Contamination Act of 1899

17.

the right for women to vote in political elections is:

a)

Suffrage

b)

Prohibition

c)

Progressivism

d)

Referendum

18.

This amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides men and women with equal voting rights.

a)

The 15th Amendment

b)

The 17th Amendment

c)

The 21st Amendment

d)

The 19th Amendment

19.

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.

a)

Federal Trade Commision

b)

Free Market Society

c)

Trade Watchdog Commission

d)

Better Business Bureau

20.

This term was used to describe the various progressive reforms sponsored by the Roosevelt administration.

a)

Dollar Diplomacy

b)

The Bull Moose Agenda

c)

The Square New Deal

d)

Equal Rights Amendments

21.

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.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Susette La Flesche

d)

Jane Addams

22.

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.

a)

Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914

b)

The Monroe Doctrine

c)

The Equal Rights Amendment

d)

The Meat Inspection Act of 1906

23.

This African American woman muckraker brought exposure to lynchings (hangings) in the south.

a)

Ida B. Wells

b)

Susan B. Anthony

c)

Susette La Flesche

d)

Florence Kelley

24.

This leader of the women's suffragist movement was arrested for casting a vote illegally in 1872

a)

Carrie Chapman Catt

b)

Alice Paul

c)

Florence Kelley

d)

Susan B. Anthony

25.

Taft's policy that favored investment of money into Latin America and East Asia instead of military intervention. - "dollars for bullets"

a)

Dollar Diplomacy

b)

Square New Deal

c)

Equal Rights Diplomacy

d)

Foreign Power Commission